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She swiped the puckered rustler's hat from his head.

Drought. Yasmin Elaine Waring 2011

The aircraft is used to identify dagga plantations, monitor incursions into South Africa over Lesotho's high mountain passes and keep an eye on rustler's movements so that helicopters carrying army reaction forces can be directed to them.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

What he was thinking was that the moon was in the quarter — what they called the rustler's moon.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

What he was thinking was that the moon was in the quarter -- what they called the rustler's moon.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

They played until the rustler's moon had crossed to the other side of town.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

They played until the rustler's moon had crossed to the other side of town.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

By the same principle, if a calf bearing a rustler's brand ran up to a Crown Vee cow, you knew that dirty work had been done and that you had a court case, unless some hot-handed cowboy shot the rustler first, in which circumstance an obliging coroner would certify death from natural causes.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

Properly branded, the mark would be recognizable till the death of the animal, and if it were subsequently altered by a rustler's running iron-and very skilled the thieves became in converting a V into a W, for instance'the animal need only be slaughtered and its skin exposed to prove the alteration.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

Some cowboy, or cattle rustler's child from beyond the Rio Grande, I reckon.

The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain James Carson

It was a "rustler's paradise," to quote Slim Degnan.

The Boy Ranchers on the Trail Willard F. Baker