| I fed him Vienna sausages and disinfected him with surgical soap purloined from the hospital tent. |
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| Were old trees being purloined, appropriated wrongfully, when they were sectioned by scientists? |
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| His free arm moved to the pouches on her belt, his fingers deft and nimble as a squirrel as he purloined some component. |
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| Now we have a batch of purloined clear plastic buttons, ready to sew on his shiny uniform shirt. |
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| We had made visiting cards for ourselves though, using sketch pens on the backsides of our respective fathers' visiting cards that we purloined. |
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| Bits of our constitution were actually purloined from the United States Constitution. |
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| Who was minding the store when 92,000 classified military logs were purloined? |
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| The Crows sold the purloined furs to Samuel Tulloch at Fort Cass. |
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| And she was at Balmoral, the queen's Scottish estate and purloined a few letters from Prince Charles' briefcase, sent them down to me via an intermediary. |
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| The character Alex McLeish has given to his side is best understood when you recall how first Rangers, and then Celtic, purloined two of his most promising players. |
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| Robert Aickman, who wrote some of the finest supernatural fiction of the 20th century, purloined the word to describe the effect he strove for in his work. |
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| After a short interval, another pair appeared, and constructed a habitation, chiefly with materials purloined from the other nests. |
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| And on other occasions, the cause is best served by withholding money which may be purloined by greedy officials. |
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| He claims that his purloined oil is sent to a crude refinery deep in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta and then sold off at a discount to poverty-stricken local people. |
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| Their images are purloined, confiscated, appropriated, stolen. |
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| Who was minding the store when 92,000 documents were purloined, Big Brother or Big Momma? |
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| Rather than going through a similarly onerous process, I will simply give a few of my impressions of the conference and then offer a report purloined from another participant. |
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| The phenomenon whereby unauthorized information concerning an individual or a company is purloined is increasing at a rate, which is proportional to our access to new digital technologies and on-line databases. |
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| Accusations, probably untrue, were levelled at Gaveston that he had stolen royal funds and had purloined Isabella's wedding presents. |
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| It is not something to be purloined by the EU in its desperate scramble for internal and external credibility, made more desperate by the humiliating rejection of the unwanted Constitution. |
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| Paradoxically, its income, which comes from oil, is increasing, but none of it reaches the inhabitants, being entirely purloined by the ruling classes. |
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| But it wasn't all kissing lambs and dressing up as The Stig for Jeremy Clarkson's birthday, and riding purloined police horses through the Chilterns, flaxen hair-a-billow. |
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| The number of purloined items is corrected several times in the weeks following: more exhibits than could be known of outside Iraq had been taken into safe custody before the war. |
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| It was only in the final of the Gold Cup in the Azteca Stadium that the Mexican hosts managed to stop the trophy from being purloined by the guests from South America. |
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