The purloining of the gems had been a rapid action.

Was that what its business had been in Phillipe's room, the purloining of a good razor?

The theft, the first in recent times from Butler, is far from the nation's largest purloining of rare books.

Naturally, some suspected a fiendish purloining of funds.

The murderer had considered that factor of more importance than the purloining of objects of value.

But that one incident - the purloining of Wallace Powell's road map - had turned disaster into gain.

The purloining of movies is a flashpoint in trade relations between the United States and several Asian countries.

So happy was Mr Multhrop that he failed to resent the purloining of his room.

No analgesics without a signed chit from the warrant officer, no purloining.'

The theft of such a scroll would be as difficult as the purloining of the Black Stone itself.

It hadn't helped that the Brits had arranged for the purloining of a new Russian T-72 main battle tank there.

The story of the purloining of St. Nicholas of Myra is another example.

Only the secret purloining of the missing deed, its subtle restitution to Howard Wycliff, could spoil their plans.

There was the purloining of Ford Motor Credit reports on 30,000 consumers so street thieves could empty bank accounts and run up purchases.

A crooked lawyer, thinking more of millions than the trust that was his to keep, had called in a supermind of crime to aid him in the purloining of vast wealth.

The California attorney general's investigation into the purloining of private phone records by agents of Hewlett-Packard has revealed that the monitoring effort began earlier than previously indicated and included journalists as targets.

Bradbury was "Deeply offended [by Pursh's purloining of his botanical specimens] and with his fame as a collector and discover of new plants stolen, Bradbury did little in botany after that."

But the N.I.H. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Dr. Healy had no intention of harassing Dr. Hadley, and was merely passing along serious allegations about the "purloining" of Government documents.

You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King.

Mosley's case relied in part on the ruling in the case McKennitt v Ash where there was "breach of confidence by way of conduct inconsistent with a pre-existing relationship, rather than simply of the purloining of private information".

Woman is invading man's sphere more successfully every day; but there are still certain fields in which man may consider that he is rightfully entitled to a monopoly--and the purloining of scarabs in the watches of the night is surely one of them.

I was there but a few hours before I came under suspicion of the inhabitants and, by means of a certain amount of climbing about on roofs, the theft of a chariot, the purloining of a boat on a near-by river, escaped them and reached the sea.

And Sisodia's purloining of the dream-narratives he'd heard at Gibreel's bedside could be seen as serendipitous: for once those stories were clearly placed in the artificial, fabricated world of the cinema, it ought to become easier for Gibreel to see them as fantasies, too.

Tina Brown has pulled off quite a coup in snagging The Dish away from the Atlantic's Web site for her Newsbeast empire-almost as big a coup as Adam Moss's purloining of Frank Rich from the Times for New York magazine.

His marriage to a member of a great English family - Mary, daughter of Henry Seymour of Woodlands in Dorset - took place in London in 1716, and the romantic story of a courtship interrupted by the purloining of their letters has been preserved by tradition.

But what you might care about is public money being purloined.

By your age I can tell that you have also purloined the good name of another.

But they could also be purloined from the living, as the police do with suspects.

The bulk of the human body that was water purloined by the sun.

If charged with purloining the same, they lie about it.

This cane remained in the family until quite recently, when it either became lost or else purloined.

She checked behind the bar and found that a bank bag full of money had been purloined.

He unfortunately gets smashed by accident a short while after being purloined.

The prints on the walls looked as if they'd been purloined from a motel.

Several of the baseball stories she has recounted on television also appear to have been purloined.

She purloined some skins and wrapped herself up like a Ham.

"I'll go in first and explain why I've purloined their gig."

Tell me, how many more of those pretty baubles have you purloined since then?"

The dogs were in fact purloined from his aunt.

Likewise, assume that anything people find there will be copies and purloined.

But then, how would he explain purloining the egg and hatching her?

And you're always making up the deficiency by purloining my equipment."

He pulled out the list of items to be shipped along with the personal correspondence he'd purloined.

We had found an opportunity of purloining a small knife for each of the girls.

Not have I purloined the cakes of the gods.

They would have said I had purloined them.

Susan has purloined a small washcloth from the hotel for this purpose.

Painted with watercolors, they could have been purloined from a reliquary.

Then he pulled out the recall device he'd purloined from the Archimedes.

It was large and permanent, undoubtedly part of the park facilities purloined from the natives.