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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of filch.

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Examples

  • Hutten had little or none of Luther's religious fervor, but he could not find colors too dark in which to picture to his countrymen the greed of the papal curia, which he described as a vast den, to which everything was dragged which could be filched from the Germans.

    An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

  • For his villain-in-chief, however, Garner repurposes a name filched from the Norse pantheon - originally, Nastrond signified the underworld Shore of Corpses, but in Garner's Alderley he is the unseen Great Spirit of Darkness, moving against the child protagonists by means of minions like the "svart alfar".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Imogen Russell Williams 2009

  • His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’ Shire farm for Hillcrest Chieftain, quickly to be known as Forrest’s

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • Some of the captions are quite amusing:shamelessly 'filched' from Jason's COUNTERCOLUMN: The Adjunct of Ev...

    "cc all your emails to Jacqui Smith" Day FIDO The Dog 2009

  • The Little Shop of Horrors had filched it from LOC, despite the LOC inventory sticker on the bottom.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • He glanced over at Tara, scribbling notes at a nearby desk filched from the Library of Congress.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The Little Shop of Horrors had filched it from LOC, despite the LOC inventory sticker on the bottom.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • A book which we shall select for you at random from our exhaustive library of titles filched from "Steve's" collection of books sent to him by editors.

    HEAVY METAL WEEK!!! HEAVY METAL REJECTION CONTEST!!!! 2010

  • He glanced over at Tara, scribbling notes at a nearby desk filched from the Library of Congress.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

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