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"No," replied the presumed purloiner seriously, "I sot it on the top of the gate-post--the high one."

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn

“Read that, Ralph,” said the purloiner; oh! recreant that I was, I read it.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

But such "conveyings" are honourable to the purloiner.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Probably she makes a better purloiner of scarabs.

From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

It was La of Opar, High Priestess of the Flaming God, and fifty of her horrid priests searching for the purloiner of the sacred sacrificial knife.

From Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice