reivers

The people I am referring to as reivers are farmers recruited by local leaders, and are a particularly dangerous class of people to deal with, as they know every inch of this most deceptive country.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

If you don't want people fishing near your home then don't build or buy near reivers and streams.

On Stream Rights In Utah 2009

If you don't want people fishing near your home then don't build or buy near reivers and streams.

On Stream Rights In Utah 2009

The north is a bleak, barren place and deadly dull except for chasing border reivers.

Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

The north is a bleak, barren place and deadly dull except for chasing border reivers.

Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

The north is a bleak, barren place and deadly dull except for chasing border reivers.

Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

The north is a bleak, barren place and deadly dull except for chasing border reivers.

Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

Harry was none of your bold-speaking, ranting reivers, that talk about what they did yesterday, or what they will do tomorrow; it was when something was to do at the moment that you should have looked at Harry

Redgauntlet 2008

Five miles from Moffat, which would be the market town to those living at the valley head, is the Devil's Beef Tub, a great cleft in the hills believed to be the hiding place for stolen cattleEnglish cattle, that is, taken by the reivers in the lawless sixteenth century.

Excerpt: The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro 2006

For there be men of violence dwelling no great way off, reivers and rovers, who would be well pleased to take from us anything which we deem dear; besides others who would think the lifting of such a jewel good hap indeed.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007