stole

• The few ones she had they stole, and then because she had no more they stole her watchmaker's tools, and swept all the spectacles and glasses and watches on to the floor and stamped them to powder There is really little more to relate about our time at Dranoutre and neighbourhood. —  The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
• Several persons admired his books--nothing was less contestable; but they appeared to have a mortal objection to acquiring them by subscription or by purchase: they begged or borrowed or stole, they delegated one of the party perhaps to commit the volumes to memory and repeat them, like the bards of old, to listening multitudes. —  Embarrassments
• What might be called a writhing expression stole over him. —  The Confidence-Man
• They were freshmen themselves last year, and if the examinations were as bad as they say, they wouldn't have passed them, either A relieved expression stole over the three faces You're such a comfort, Patty. —  When Patty Went to College
• The only thing he ever stole was the time he should have spent in working. —  Children of the Tenements

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