| Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned. |
| Elsewhere we have to purloin a ladder to get a box down, so we can open it. |
| Why should a fledgling charismatic church leader be able to purloin another church's title? |
| When I did first purloin the Queen's tarts last summer, methought to eat them. |
| Ode to Joy, which we are going to purloin, may be a very nice tune, but so is Jingle Bells, and like Jingle Bells it heralds a fantasy, the fantasy that the EU is good for you. |
| The great object is to purloin it by force or by fraud from those who have created it. |
