purloined

• Mr Campion, picking up an early treatise on Sex and the Mind , found that it had been the property of a medical library in Edinburgh, purloined, apparently about thirty years before. —  Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham - Campion 04: 1931
• Ancient monasteries fought, sued, stole, purloined, and invested fortunes (plus even, I daresay, a little prayer) in saintly relics. —  Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 12
• Vittorio De Sica sent his unemployed worker wandering through the streets of Rome searching for his purloined. —  GreenCine Daily
• The Democrats are claiming that the flags were purloined, or something: —  QandO
• Reichardt has choreographed one of the most stripped-down existential quests since Vittorio De Sica sent his unemployed worker wandering through the streets of Rome searching for his purloined bicycle, and as heartbreaking a dog story as De Sica's —  SF Weekly | Complete Issue

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