He was also to play two parts, one open, one very much behind the scenes, in the tale of the purloined letters.
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.
Quite cheekily, they purloined £3 to £4 billion of water assets from local authorities without any compensation.
They have been purloined for the benefit of councillors and their families.
I had purloined it from someone's five small cigarette packet that we had in those days.
Will it be on the basis of the document, the so-called purloined document?
The academics, if it is academics who wrote the report, have rather purloined the word "detriment" as being a pure economic term.
