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If the fruit have a special flavor of such ambitious pungency that the sweets and acids cannot appear through it, be sure that to come at this fruit no young Wilhelm Meister will purloin keys.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

I know—I know—they want to drive me to exhibit my gold and silver wares, many a piece of which they will purloin.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène

He will purloin an old coat as readily as a diamond ring, or a tobacco pipe costing but a few shillings with the same eagerness as a purse of gold.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)