Stas hoped that he would succeed in Purloining it, but he decided to draw it out of the case and put the stock and the barrels together when he should be about fifty paces from the cave, as he feared that the clank of the iron against iron would wake the sleepers.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
"3. You are to be faithful and honest to your masters and mistresses, not Purloining or wasting their goods or substance, but showing all good fidelity in all things....
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
I have no doubt that Sir Arthur's fortune has suffered, and is suffering severely; and that while that miserly wretch, Abimelech, is destroying the fabric, he is Purloining and carrying off the best of the materials.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft