Associations of this kind excite the imagination and, in so doing, purloin evidence of workable hypotheses by referring the unknown directly to the known.
While so many unqualified soldiers were kept in the rank-and-file, it was common for officers to purloin the salaries of the unfilled vacancies.
What mattered was the composers' confidence that, wherever they derived their inspiration, whatever they purloined and treated as their 'heritage', they could assimilate it and make it their own.
All that stuff about the famous "purloined document" is an example.
But even then we find some families purloining part of the equipment provided.
Quite cheekily, they purloined £3 to £4 billion of water assets from local authorities without any compensation.
Those who fiddle the ballot may purloin the papers or substitute false papers.
They have been purloined for the benefit of councillors and their families.
