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However, an offer that purloins someone else's knowledge, in this case expensive and demanding medical training, and appropriates someone else's money to pay for it cannot be, no matter how magnanimous the goal, moral.

ObamaCare Isn't the Only Way to Reform Health Care 2009

She purloins them with her loins and he steals them from her; leading to a challenge to see who can make the other submit to their superiority.

The Family Jewels-Carolyn Hart « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

I focus primarily on theft, organizing the essay into sections on what and how culture steals from women and the ways they try to cope with or steal back their vitality: Cassandra purloins a bonnet, pastries, and a coach ride, and Eliza steals a bank note and another woman's fiancé.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

For myself, I never turn a key anywhere, and no one ever purloins from me even a handkerchief.

Tales of all countries 2004

Do you know, Ivan Ivanovitch, that a person who purloins a government document in the court-room incurs capital punishment equally with other criminals? ''

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

But he longs to reach her whom he loves and desires; and he hastens o'er sea and land; and the way seems very long to him, so eagerly does he yearn to see her who takes away and purloins his heart from him.

Cligés. English de Troyes Chr��tien

Reply Obj. 4: A hypocrite does not give a spiritual thing for the sake of praise, he only makes a show of it, and under false pretenses stealthily purloins rather than buys human praise: so that seemingly the hypocrite is not guilty of simony.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

He who purloins [apparel, &c. [357]] shall have a hand cut off; cut-purses, [358] shall have the thumb and fore-finger cut off; for a second offence, a hand and a foot shall be cut off.

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou

She rewards them with a kiss apiece, one of which Luttrell surreptitiously purloins from the prettiest.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

He pillages the cornfield, and pulls up the young shoots of maize to obtain the kernels attached to their roots; he destroys the eggs and the young of innocent birds which we should like to preserve; he purloins fruit from the garden and orchard, and carries off young ducks and chickens from the farmyard.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various