"Purloin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oozed out, and he became as arrogant as ever, and stoutly claimed that he was their big cousin, though, he said, he was not particularly anxious to be acknowledged by such a pack of little dwarfish thieving creatures as they were, who would steal through the farmer's fence to purloin vegetables for a cousin whom they ...
— Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... swelling act Promise, keep the word of Proof, give me ocular Proofs of holy writ Prophet not without honor Prophets, pervert the Propriety, frights the isle from her Prove all things Proverb and a by-word Providence their guide Prow, youth at the Prunella, leather or Psalms, purloin the Punishment greater than I can bear Pure, all things pure to the Purpose, infirm of —, nighty, never is o'ertook Purse, who steals my, ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various |
