" "Well, then, sir, you can't do it," said the counsel; "you cannot give penal servitude for petty larceny.

Anybody that don't join a stampede will be held guilty o' grand larceny."

[William and Mary] they received sentence of death and might have been executed for the first offence in simple larceny, bigamy, manslaughter, etc., however learned they were, merely because their sex precluded the possibility of their taking holy orders; though a man who could read was for the same crime subject only to burning in the hand and a few months' imprisonment.

It was on some such street that these folk practiced their innocent larceny.

He is almost the last person on whom any one would commit literary larceny, and I am not conscious of any witting thefts on any of the genus.

I trust that, in adapting the words of the following little ballad to a well-known English air, I have committed no unpardonable larceny.