In his anxiety he had forgotten all about his adventures among the cavalrymen who had sought to detain him as a horse thief.
The voices came from a nearby clearing, and approaching, Rasco saw on horseback Louis Vorlange and half a dozen cavalrymen, among them Tucker, Ross and Skimmy, the trio who had sought to detain Dick as a horse thief.
That the man could be a horse thief, an outlaw, seemed most incredible.
Everyone knew that to have been the work of vigilantes, and was a message to some gambler or horse thief to get himself out of town or stand the shotgun or rope jury.
Walter Nixon, the packer who was to take us "up Horse Thief," had been engaged by wire a week previously.
To get the first movies of what is claimed to be the only lake in the world outside of the polar regions that has icebergs perpetually floating upon its surface was the principal object of Chester in directing his outfit up Horse Thief Creek.
He was accused of being a horse thief, but Mr. Ellis does not know that he ever engaged in this kind of business.
It was not until horse stealing became prevalent that the people arose in arms against the outlaw and formed associations called "anti-horse thief" associations.
I'd like to wring his neck, but even Harvey Grannis can't say I'm a horse thief.
This in addition of Grannis's usual name for him of horse thief proved so unpleasant that he was sorry he went.
Her glance went fleetingly to Roy, and everybody in the cow-camp remembered how Grannis's ideas of discipline had made a sort of horse thiefout of a very honest lad.
Well, if you or any of your outfit or anybody else calls me a horse thief he wants to go for his gun.
Handy had become a horse thief and a suspected murderer in the year following Pan's acquaintance with him.
Jard Hardman was a horse thief," went on Pan in rising passion.
Grayson having arranged for these felt that he had done all that might be expected of a host, especially when the uninvited guest was so obviously a hobo and doubtless a horse thief as well, for who ever knew a hobo to own a horse?
The answer confirmed his suspicions that the stranger was probably a horse thief, which, in Grayson's estimation, was the worst thing a man could be.
In the following month they hanged three more cattle thieves in Contra Costa county, and followed this by hanging a horse thief in Oakland.
The stranger seemed perfectly frank and straightforward in his manner and didn't look like a horse thief should.
According to Jim's conceptions, a horse thiefshould be a sullen, villainous man with a mustache and a long scar on his cheek.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horse thief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
