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- noun Plural form of
purloiner .
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Examples
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The local finest loving duo of purloiners scorns boys and their beer.
Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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The local finest loving duo of purloiners scorns boys and their beer.
Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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It's an interesting idea and one that might throw the fear of jail time into a few prospective purloiners.
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The local finest loving duo of purloiners scorns boys and their beer.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Two Best Thieves In Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber Blue Tyson 2007
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Only Flinx's brighter than normal hair made the professional purloiners cluck their tongues in disapproval.
For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983
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Only Flinx's brighter than normal hair made the professional purloiners cluck their tongues in disapproval.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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Only Flinx's brighter than normal hair made the professional purloiners cluck their tongues in disapproval.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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The beautiful tower rests upon a square basement, which has been despoiled of its exterior coating by Popes and other purloiners, but the greatest part of it is buried beneath the soil.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832 Various
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He had restored the case of the city against the purloiners as an anatomist, by the means of two or three bones, would draw you a picture of the animal which had inhabited them in the palæontological age. '
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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He laughed immoderately at the apparent joke of the purloiners of his gasoline being caught before they had time to use it.
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol 1909
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