| 1. | Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am trie. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | the emporium of petty larceny visited at early morning, and setting-in of dusk, by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back-parlours, and who go as strangely as they come. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |