She purloins them with her loins and he steals them from her; leading to a challenge to see who can make the other submit to their superiority. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, an offer that purloins someone else's knowledge, in this case expensive and demanding medical training, and appropriates someone else's money to pay for it cannot be, no matter how magnanimous the goal, moral. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I focus primarily on theft, organizing the essay into sections on what and how culture steals from women and the ways they try to cope with or steal back their vitality: Cassandra purloins a bonnet, pastries, and a coach ride, and Eliza steals a bank note and another woman's fiancé. ❋ Unknown (2006)
For myself, I never turn a key anywhere, and no one ever purloins from me even a handkerchief. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Do you know, Ivan Ivanovitch, that a person who purloins a government document in the court-room incurs capital punishment equally with other criminals? '' ❋ Unknown (1952)
But he longs to reach her whom he loves and desires; and he hastens o'er sea and land; and the way seems very long to him, so eagerly does he yearn to see her who takes away and purloins his heart from him. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (N/A)
Reply Obj. 4: A hypocrite does not give a spiritual thing for the sake of praise, he only makes a show of it, and under false pretenses stealthily purloins rather than buys human praise: so that seemingly the hypocrite is not guilty of simony. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
He who purloins [apparel, &c. [357]] shall have a hand cut off; cut-purses, [358] shall have the thumb and fore-finger cut off; for a second offence, a hand and a foot shall be cut off. ❋ W.A [Translator] Montriou (N/A)
She rewards them with a kiss apiece, one of which Luttrell surreptitiously purloins from the prettiest. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)
He pillages the cornfield, and pulls up the young shoots of maize to obtain the kernels attached to their roots; he destroys the eggs and the young of innocent birds which we should like to preserve; he purloins fruit from the garden and orchard, and carries off young ducks and chickens from the farmyard. ❋ Various (N/A)
QUOTATION: Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. ❋ Unknown (1919)
He was feeling for Bean the contempt which a really distinguished safe-blower is said to feel for the cheap thief who purloins bottles of milk from basement doorways in the gray of dawn. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
He boldly enters our camp at night and purloins a savory ham or rifles the larder and eats a pound of butter. ❋ Saxton Pope (1900)
This book was written by a clergyman, but even the clergyman, when a defender of human slavery "perverts the prophets and purloins the Psalms." ❋ John Wesley Edward (1896)
Religious agnosticism, like all other forms of the theory of nescience, derives its plausibility from the adventitious help it purloins from the knowledge which it condemns. ❋ Henry Jones (1887)
He is like an Italian thief, that never robs but he murders, to prevent discovery; so sure is he to cry down the man from whom he purloins, that his petty larceny of wit may pass unsuspected. ❋ Various (1885)
"T. never purloins the apples from Emerson's trees; it is only the windfalls that he carries off and passes for his own fruit." ❋ Frank Preston Stearns (1881)
Swallows and sparrows not only build their nests on my roof, but even enter my rooms without concern -- one swallow has actually built its nest in the ceiling of the bathroom -- and the weasel purloins fish under my very eyes without any scruples of conscience. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
So he purloins mine, and brings them before the public, quite certain that I shall not protest But he does not take me in. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Psalms, purloins the, 539. songs be turned to holy, 25. ❋ John Bartlett (1862)
My office..[burgled], [plundered], [PURLOINED]... Ha Ha Ha! loins. ❋ Tggb3k (2004)
The portmanteau purloin put the majority of [Americans] living [paycheck to paycheck] because they couldn't [pay attention]. ❋ Coop Dupe (2020)
