stol'n

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy/With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;/And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory 2008

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy/With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;/And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

Some KY Clinton supporters doubtful she can claim nomination 2008

I am exactly 32 today, which I think entitles me to say that Time has stol'n 32 years although not, technically, my "32nd year", since tomorrow I will be thirty-two-years-and-one-day old.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

Ochone, ochone, our glory's o'er, stol'n by a mean deceiver (ruthless reiver),

The Highlander's Lament 1997

_ Od's nigs, very true; what wou'd you say then Sir, if they shou'd be stol'n away, and a-bed together seriously?

The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

Furtively was it brought along but by force was it stol'n.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Yet they flow in publick for the use of all: only love seems sweeter stol'n than when it's given us: so it is, we esteem nothing, unless

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Which he had stol'n; and wished, as they did tell,

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

But the lays of his boyhood had stol'n to their ear,

The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

Some shell, my beloved one, the River, has stol'n from the store of the sea.

Last Poems Laurence Hope 1884