The banker supposed that the letter had been lost or purloined in the Post-office; but it was afterwards proved to have been duly delivered to the bank porter, who having locked it up in his desk, had quite forgotten it.
Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance has been purloined from the royal apartments.
The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it.
I carried about in my bosom a volume of Waller, which I had purloinedfrom my mother's library; and I applied to my little fair one all the compliments lavished upon Sacharissa.
You know I'm about sick of this," remarked Loring, meditatively stirring the fire with the richly carved leg of a chair purloined from Draycott's study.
In the wall of the treasury they placed a stone, in such a manner that it could be taken out; and by this means, from time to time, purloined the treasure.
In the mean time the miller let their horse loose, and, when the young men went to catch it, purloined half a bushel of the flour, substituting meal instead.
Meanwhile, the very workman whose idea has been purloined and exploited is treated as a danger by the foreman; henceforth he must be watched and kept well in subjection.
Fleury she was a stranger; but the children immediately recollected her to be the chestnut woman, to whom Babet had some years ago restored certain purloined chestnuts.
Besides this mine of wealth, I had an interest in the wooden bucket purloined from the Danville prison, and as Sergeant of the mess, it was in my care.
The guards brought us water in the bucket we had purloined from Danville.
To Madame de Fleury she was a stranger; but the children immediately recollected her to be the chestnut woman to whom Babet had some years ago restored certainpurloined chestnuts.
In it were stored the weapons: all manner of fire-arms, all patterns of cutting, thrusting and hurling implements, which had been purloinedfrom the armories of noble castles.
At breakfast-time the dog, as on the preceding evening, purloined a piece of bread.
Janie had made a reputation early in her ranch life following the boys who staked claims and attempted to work the mines with purloined tin cans.
As her friends had predicted Judith was the recipient of much fudge, all sorts of books, and even hot-house flowers, purloined from chapel.
We go to the spot and find that his hidden treasure is a grain of corn which he has purloined from the farmer's field on the slope.
A young cowbird that I purloined from the nest and tried to rear by hand did not prove a pleasant pet.
The next moment Bessie, fully attired, swept out between them and across the room, her independence and peace of mind restored with the resumption of the purloined garment.
At first, he purloined cautiously and abstemiously from the mails, hoping, no doubt, that success at the faro bank would swell those unlawful gains, and cancel the necessity for further depredations.
I determined, therefore, to put him to the test of a direct charge of having purloined the package, which I lost no time in doing, intimating that a confession and restoration of the money was his first duty.
I made myself sure of my facts by searching this passage, in which I found plenty of their purloined treasure.
I was terrified, for I imagined I was perhaps suspected of havingpurloined some of the diamonds; but I followed the officer without hesitation, conscious of my innocence.
This was Penelope's thought in cold blood; but when she reflected more over the matter, it seemed to her that the thing was not so easy as it had appeared when in the heat of the conflict with Nesta she had purloined the money.
I have purloined a big dish of goodies, and hidden it under the sofa in the sitting-room.
I was very grateful to them for their kindness to me; and one day I purloined some of Alice’s drawings, and took them into Boston.
So he continued to cogitate, and watch the progress of his scheme's effect, till the dark forms of the sable thieves could be discerned evidently treading on each other's heels, while they bore off their purloined prize.
My goods were purloined to feast those imps of darkness, and you lent your presence to grace their proceedings?
But, if I intended not to resign it to him, was it proper to disclose the truth and explain by whom the volume was purloined from the shelf?
She had one of Amelia's ugly little ginghams, purloined from a closet, for size, and she worked two or three dainty wonders.
He had simply purloined it and presented it to Viola, and merrily left matters to settle themselves.
When he had apprised the artilleryman of what Branch had found in his roll of purloined bedding the latter smiled broadly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purloined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
