From what he said, one gathered how immense an influence Mrs. Reiver held over him, and how thoroughly he felt for his own lapse.
He learned to take thankfully dances which Mrs. Reiver had no intention of giving him.
But the question is, what claim will Mrs. Reiver have to the credit of Moriarty's salvation, when her day of reckoning comes?
Mrs. Reiver took no special notice of him, beyond seeing that he was added to her list of admirers, and going for a walk with him now and then, just to show that he was her property, claimable as such.
He learned to shiver for an hour and a quarter on the windward side of Elysium while Mrs. Reiver was making up her mind to come for a ride.
Mrs. Reiver fought, partly because Pluffles was useful to her, but mainly because she hated Mrs. Hauksbee, and the matter was a trial of strength between them.
Moriarty must have done most of the talking, for Mrs. Reiver couldn't talk much to a man of his stamp; and the little she said could not have been profitable.
He learned to keep appointments which Mrs. Reiver had no intention of keeping.
What Pluffles had intended to do in the matter of the engagement only Mrs. Reiver knew, and she kept her own counsel to her death.
Mrs. Reiver had broken him of talking about himself, and made him talk about her own merits.
Because Mrs. Reiver was cold and hard, he said she was stately and dignified.
This much at least is certain that the Border reiver was always well mounted, and well armed with lance or spear, which, on occasion, he could use with much dexterity and skill.
This redoubtable reiver was a progenitor of the Ettrick Shepherd, whose family, it is said, possessed the lands of Fauldshope, under the Scotts of Harden, for a period of 400 years.
But the Border reiver was made of different metal; was, indeed, a man of an essentially higher type.
It was as popular, at that time, in England as anywhere else, as many a Scottish reiver has known to his cost.
Here we have the ethical system of the Border reiver in a nutshell.
Seldom, indeed, has Border reiver been so beneficently punished!
No Liddesdale reiver was ever likely to part with anything in a hurry, least of all to give it up to an Englishman.
He looked up, and the Red Reiver of Westburnflat was before him.
Who thought of penning their cattle beneath the tower when the Red Reiver of Westburnflat was deemed to be on his death-bed?
Ere the Dwarf could collect himself to reply, the Reiver of Westburnflat set spurs to his horse.
Hobbie now relieved his benefactor of his presence, and rode blithely home to display his treasure, and consult upon the means of repairing the damage which his fortune had sustained through the aggression of the Red Reiver of Westburnflat.
Whether it was wise policy to hang the reiver who was the terror of the Borders, yet "never molested no Scottis man," it is not necessary to decide.
We go to catch a rank reiver Has broken faith wi' the bold Buccleuch.
They have laid the Reiver low in his place, They have set me up on high, But the twenty knights in the peat-water Are luckier than I.
But Armstrong was too much for them; one who shared the old reiver blood was not to be intimidated, and he knocked the pistol out of the hand of the threatening Highlander, secured it himself, and turned the tables most unpleasantly.
Surmounting the wall, I approached the spot where I had seen the reiver first.
Feeling carefully around for support of root or stone, I made my way down, and discovered, as I had already conjectured, 'twas the reiver that lay there.
Craning my neck forward, I saw under a broadened fringe of moonlight the roan horse with the ruddy-bearded reiver beside him.
We go to catch a rank reiver Has broken faith wi' the bauld Buccleuch.
The triumph of putting an end to the daring deeds of so bold a Scottish reiver when they had him safely in chains in Carlisle Castle, was one that they were not likely lightly to forego.
Which of us would not have been a reiver in the old reiving days?
A foray into England brought many a sturdy Scottish reiver riding over the Carter Bar; and Reeds, and Halls, and Ridleys were never averse from a night ride across the English Border when a Michaelmas moon smiled on the enterprise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reiver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marauder; plunderer; raider; ravager; ravisher; wrecker
