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Punk bands, for their own or their songs� names, have purloined PKD phrases; cyberpunk fiction copped his attitude.

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011

"Restore—give back," screamed the attorney, vainly struggling to dissemble the agitation which convulsed him—"that—that—which you have purloined from the chest of drawers!"

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

They all know each other, keep up a constant intelligence among themselves, and reciprocally pass off and carry away the articles they have purloined.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

He could not have "purloined" and palmed off as his own the duchess's version of Miss Lee's story in order to raise money for a purpose which had not arisen.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Common honesty requires you to restore to orthodoxy the institutions you have purloined.

From The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments by Williams, William A. (William Asbury)