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n. (horse thief English)
Usage examples of "horse thieves".
The sword resting on one still-powerful shoulder gleamed in the fading light, and the carefully displayed remains of would-be bandits and horse thieves gave grim testament to the old man's ability to hold this outpost.
Once I had to run down a couple of horse thieves, but I brought them in, without shooting, after trailing them to where they had holed up, then —.
We trotted most of the way from the mesa to Wilton's camp, remember, then rode darned near another twenty miles southward after those horse thieves, and we hadn't had much rest then either.
We men of Cwm Peel hate horse thieves the worst of all the thieves in the world.
The whole bloody countryside was aroused - looking for a pack of horse thieves, as the sergeant who collared me explained.