What is "reiver"

Usage examples of "reiver".

I cried to let house and plenishing burn, and follow the reivers to recover Grace, and Earnscliff and his men were ower the Fell within three hours after the deed.

So when the Center Cops finally did make a move that meant something, and dragged away Smit Sarten, the local reiver king, Elber had been as hurt and confused and resentful as anyone.

Till his deathday he held the Castle of the Scaur, and cleansed the Wood Perilous of all strong-thieves and reivers, so that no high-street of a good town was safer than its glades and its byways.

Juggling the candlewood, Reiver reached down his shirt front to pull a string.

Till his deathday he held the Castle of the Scaur, and cleansed the Wood Perilous of all strong-thieves and reivers, so that no high-street of a good town was safer than its glades and its byways.

Among my own people we call them Lijik Ganda, the Red Reivers An aeon ago they swept down upon us, and the slaughter drove us from our homeland and into sin and degradation.

Robin is an idealized bandit, reiver, or Klepht, as in modern Romaic ballads, and his adventures are precisely such as popular fancy everywhere attaches to such popular heroes.

She was relieved to see that the reivers were too busy trying to manage the ship to think of using him as a negotiating tool.

Why, man, the lads of Westburnflat, for ten lang descents, have been reivers and lifters.

On all the French marches are droves of outcasts, reivers, spoilers, and draw-latches, of whom I judge that these are some, though I marvel that they should dare to come so nigh to the castle of the seneschal.

Only sheerest coincidence had allowed them to install the three Balls in reiver ships and gotten them to work without blowing up.

Always wary, Reiver had insisted the trio circle Cursrah's valley and descend its western slopes, because the White Flame's bandits would surely enter from the east.

Reiver and Hakiim couched in a corner, poised to vault the pool rim and run, even into the midst of the bandits.

The man who besat it with easy grace was steel-bonneted as might be any Border Reiver.

Most of them date back to the age of the Border Reivers, families of Scotland and England who fought over these lands and spent much of their time raiding each other.