Grand theft, for example

Usage examples of larceny.

Jonathan Ainsley was aware that he had larceny in his heart, accepted that he was avaricious, greedy for the good things in life, hungry for power.

I confess that I only obtained this satisfaction by a species of larceny, but I could not have succeeded if she had not been well disposed towards me.

The Commissary has known him as an indigent, good-for-nothing lubbard who has begged his way in the streets of Paris ever since he was released from gaol some months ago, after he had served a term for larceny.

Obtaining two Blades under false pretenses was at least grand larceny and would mean disaster for Ringwood and Ranter.

Treger in turn would convince Brassard that he had better rackets under his thumb than petty larceny.

Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.

As he came across in her exuberant description, he was a happy-go-lucky sharpie with a heart full of larceny but without any vestige of a mean streak, a chipper quick-witted con man with a deck of cards in one hand and a stack of uranium stock in the other, a heavy drinker but not a sloppy one, a big spender and a good-time Charlie, a man whose sense of responsibility and need for security were about as well developed as that of the lilies of the field.

Breaking and entering, robbery, larceny, aggravated assault--the crime rate in Newport has successfully been cut in half since Chief Calvin and I sat down to map out an anticrime strategy at the beginning of his tenure here.

Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.

I confess that I only obtained this satisfaction by a species of larceny, but I could not have succeeded if she had not been well disposed towards me.

Because the course they would probably take, after beating his story out of him, would make it difficult to collect from Lord Clivers, and would greatly complicate the matter of clearing Miss Fox of the larceny charge.

The Flo-Sun bill is such egregious larceny that it has been attacked by two local congressmen, Democrat Peter Deutsch and Republican E.

Buyers and receivers of goods taken by way of robbery or larceny, knowing them to have been so taken, shall be deemed accessaries to such robbery or larceny after the fact.

But when they aren't looking for cases of petty larceny and organised laziness, which you have to contend with in any outfit as big as ours, they're mostly just keeping in touch with the morale of the staff.

He is ignorant about many little things, such as reading and writing and geography and mathematics, as Haystack Duggeler himself admits he never goes to school any more than he can help, but he is so wise when it comes to larceny that I always figure they must have great tutors back in Haystack's old hometown of Booneville, Mo.