larcener

No penance for the adulterer, stocks for the drunkard, whip for the petty larcener, brand for the felon, gallows for the murderer.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

Nevertheless, as an upright man will never wish barefacedly to steal from others, so does he determine at all times to claim independently his own: to be robbed, and not resent it (I speak foolishly), is the next mean thing after pilfering itself; and rash will be thy daring, O literary larcener!

An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

Nevertheless, as an upright man will never wish barefacedly to steal from others, so does he determine at all times to claim independently his own: to be robbed, and not resent it (I speak foolishly), is the next mean thing after pilfering itself; and rash will be thy daring, O literary larcener!

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

The Vicomte passed at once from the popular admiration one bestows on a hero to the popular contempt with which one regards a petty larcener.

The Parisians — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The Vicomte passed at once from the popular admiration one bestows on a hero to the popular contempt with which one regards a petty larcener.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And it doesn’t do any good trying to pretend you’re dodging out to pinch a petty larcener when I know jolly well what you are up to, and, to be perfectly honest, am often dying to hear about it.”

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935