prigged

We have known and associated with one who was greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye of a citizen.

Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

We have known and associated with one who was greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye of a citizen.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

Had I but known, I could have made twenty shifts; nay, for that matter, and in so good a cause, I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common — it had but been sending back the brute to the headborough.

Kenilworth 2004

England, he having 'prigged vat vasn't his'n, and gone to pris'n.'

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

One of the narrowest escapes I ever had was one time I prigged

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

I once prigged a priest's pocket, and he collared me and said, 'Well, if you think you have a better right to that purse than I have, you may keep it.'

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

I remember once going along Oxford Street, and I prigged an old woman's 'poke,' [17] on the

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

For I'd prigged his reader, drawn his ticker; [10]

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

When I came out of jail I went to a fair in the neighbourhood, and I prigged a countryman's 'poke' as he was standing at one of those barrows where they shoot for nuts; and, by the piper! the 'copper' saw me and marched me off to the station.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

Determined not to lose the 'poke,' which had a good many 'quids' in it, I watched the 'copper,' and prigged it out of his pocket again.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous