unlawfully

I stole noiselessly away, feeling shocked and unhappy, lest I had unlawfully witnessed a soul pleading with God.

The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal.

You stand convicted of the offence of unlawfully tampering with the conscience of a prisoner of State!

And there the King saw written, "An unlawfully married man."

Then, too, they had to proceed against Noddy Nixon, who had unlawfully taken their motorship.

And because he had not obtained them from a jeweller, did it follow that he had taken them unlawfully?

Think not that it is unlawful to obey in every thing which is unlawfully commanded.

The Drapers have unlawfully solde these tenements and garden plots, and the poore be wronged.

And to see one man with an umbrella (brought on purpose, for it was a fine day) hoisting himself, unlawfully, from stair to stair!

The foreigner vociferously claimed her; uttering execrations against all who unlawfully withheld her; or would abet her elopement.