His fame for the thieving is gone To the reivers and rogues of your clan You'll spare me "so old and so frail, Fitter to die than to live?
I'll bet two to one that Reivers knows all about what we said before morning.
In freeing himself Reivers had hurled Moir to one side, and Moir had dropped with his outstretched hands nearly touching his six-shooter, where it had fallen when Reivers had dropped upon him.
And Reivers had not even so much as told Miss Pearson of what he intended to do.
And Reivers needed only one glance at the emaciated countenance to know that he was looking upon the father of Hattie MacGregor.
For reply Reivers promptly gulped down a drink that would have strangled most men.
Tillie had lived among white people, had been to the white man's school even, but Reivers knew he would slacken his hold on her if he demeaned himself by assisting her in her toil.
Reivers dropped to his knees, shuddering, his arms shielding his eyes from imaginary beasts of the bottle.
The same clean-cut nose, mouth and chin that Reivers remembered so well in the daughter were apparent in the father's pain-marked face.
Then she crawled forward and touched her forehead to his hand, for Reivers had not bestowed upon the girl a glance.
But in the morning following he saw that Reivers had taken cognizance in his own peculiar way of Toppy's action in driving the shotgun guard away from the quarry.
Reivers ceased to watch the driver and turned his scrutiny entirely to the bundle upon the sleigh.
With the rifles carefully stowed in their buckskin cases on the sledge, and a big camp-axe, as their whole burden, Reivers immediately took command of the dogs and headed down the river.
So you were listening whenReivers was talking to me, were you?
Fumbling with his feet Reiversfound the stream and stepped in.
And you and my cousin Nell shall rear me routh of lusty knaves to protect my south-western marches, and keep down the reivers of the Dungeon!
The bold reivers at once determined to force the gate.
The reivers in their expeditions hardly ever went on foot.
The Scottish reivers were not easily captured; and when it came to an encounter, unless matched against a greatly superior force, they almost invariably gave a good account of themselves.
No doubt like his neighbours, who were engaged in the same precarious line of business, he had many unsuccessful raids to recount, but he was certainly one of the most wary and successful of the reivers on the Scottish side of the Border.
The unsettled condition of the country after the battle of Langside, and the Queen's flight into England, made the Border reivers more than ever bold and lawless.
Leslie has given a graphic description of the methods adopted by the Border reivers to secure their booty.
In the first place, we ought to remember that, however many sins and shortcomings the Border reivers may be accused of, breach of faith can hardly be reckoned one of them.
In looking back over the long list of famous reivers there are many names which, somehow or other, we are disposed to regard with a more or less kindly feeling.
In "Pitcairn's Criminal Trials" there are numerous allusions to the prosecutions of famous Scottish reivers for the inbringing of Englishmen to assist them in the work of plunder.
In no circumstances were the Border reiverseasily intimidated.
It is to be hoped that the picture he has drawn of this man is not representative of the reivers as a whole, as it is hardly possible to conceive of a more consummate scoundrel.
He says that the reivers never told their beads with so much devotion as when they were setting out on a marauding expedition, and expected a good booty as a recompense of their devotion!
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.
Why, man, the lads of Westburnflat, for ten lang descents, have been reivers and lifters.
The reivers they wad a stealing gang, To steal sae far frae hame; And stown ha'e they the king's daughter, Fair Annie hight by name.
A little sister ance I had, A sister that hight Ann; By reivers she was stown awa', And sald in fremmit land.
They took to their road betimes on the morrow, and two of the goodman's sons and three of his men rode with them, well armed; for though this was a peopled part, yet whiles reivers rode therein.
Wherefore he hath set these reivers on your folk, and hath sent us along with them to look to you.
Yet not soon meseem shall reivers fall upon West Dale now they have learned the valour of the folk thereof.
Said she: "Three days ago I was stolen from mine own home by this man's servants while the stout men of my folk were in battle with a sort of reivers who had fallen on our land.
A moan or sigh from it on the safe side of the Carter Bar would scatter a party of Scottish reivers across the moorland as no English army could have done.
The success of so daring a venture made the Scottish reivers arrogant.
Nor would a convent always guard us,' said Eleanor; 'these reivers do not stick at sanctuary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reivers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
