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Definition of Pilfered
1. pilfer [v] - See also: pilfer
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Literary usage of Pilfered
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1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"pilfered MATERIALS It has been remarked that S. Salvatore of Brescia is constructed
very largely of pilfered columns and capitals. ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... made by fifty years' industry of that worthy gentleman, unless it has been
pilfered or destroyed by the Saracen- like barbarity of the late occupiers of ..."
3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... this Poor Man's Name got pilfered and Stiffened in the Schools— Love One
Another a Principle—Numbers and Moral Status at Time of Advent—Determined ..."
4. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1881)
"... Some of which have no invoice, others, a number of Loads included in one, and
others undoubtedly pilfered, as no Guard Comes on with them. ..."
5. Cawnpore by George Otto Trevelyan (1866)
"the clubs of herdsmen whose cattle they had pilfered in the rage of hunger: others
to wander about ..."
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