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  • Pilfering is a problem at the White House; guests sometimes walked out with hand towels stuffed in their jackets or purses; flatware disappeared from tables.

    In memoir, Laura Bush reveals painful events during husband's presidency 2010

  • Pilfering is a problem at the White House; guests sometimes walked out with hand towels stuffed in their jackets or purses; flatware disappeared from tables.

    In memoir, Laura Bush reveals painful events during husband's presidency 2010

  • To understand the bathos of Prince's art let me quote excerpts from a review of the artist's retrospective by Roberta Smith of the New York Times, "Pilfering a Culture Out of Joint," Sept. 28, 2007:

    Raymond J. Learsy: "Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London? 2009

  • Pilfering millions from New Orleans 'levee repair project to pay for a war based on deceit is a national betrayal.

    Rob McKay: Let's Make Sure President Bush Doesn't Survive Katrina 2008

  • Of Polar Bears and Pilfering Republicans yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Of Polar Bears and Pilfering Republicans'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Have you heard the one about the $3 million bear DNA study?

    Of Polar Bears and Pilfering Republicans 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Pilfering of the Public Record by Pirates of Privacy'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Shredding your documents and monitoring your credit does not protect you when state and local governments publish your private information on the Internet and sell it wholesale to databrokers.'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Pilfering of the Public Record by Pirates of Privacy 2006

  • Pilfering indeed is almost unknown amongst them, and any person convicted of such a crime would be expelled from his village by the unanimous voice of its inhabitants; I did not lose the most trifling article during my journey through the country, although I always slept in the open air in front of the house where I took up my quarters for the night.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • -- Pilfering was housebreaking to Mr. Woodhouse's fears.

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

  • Pilfering, and ransacking; in offices and like that.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • And as some Men think it an Allay to themselves, that others have their Right; so they know no End of Pilfering to raise their own Credit.

    Part II. Of Envy 1909

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