"Larceny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never knew before that a lad who stole apples was called a philosopher—we calls it petty larceny in the indictments: and as for your rights of man, I cannot see how they can be ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat
... between a Sunday-school text and petty larceny?" retorted Jack Benson, sternly. "What do you mean by taking the submarine ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... simple and apparently effective way, it would seem, of stopping brigandage, but one which, in fact, increases it, because, in order to find the money to pay the fines, the natives are driven to the road, each successive larceny going towards part payment of ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... as I know, that Cox's story is a falsification. Mr. Cox says I am a political thief; don't think he charges me with stealing sheep, he only means to say I stole squatter sovereignty. It is petty larceny at best. But I did not steal Douglas ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... her four volumes, to have the goodness to marry her to somebody more of a gentleman than a "Disdar Aga" (who, by the way, is not an Aga), the most impolite of petty officers, the greatest patron of larceny Athens ever saw (except Lord E[lgin]), and the unworthy occupant of the Acropolis, on a handsome stipend of 150 piastres (L8 sterling), out of which he has to pay his garrison, the most ill-regulated corps in the ill-regulated ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston
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