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Since civilians were pilfering up to 75% of food shipments, soldiers now guard deliveries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sampson was indignant at finding that these gentry, after denouncing him for years as a quack, were pilfering his system, yet still reviling him.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles