horse-stealer

They might as well say I was a horse-stealer or a housebreaker.

The Virginians 2006

In a lively, familiar, striking discourse the clergyman described a scene of which he had been witness the previous week — the execution of a horse-stealer after Assizes.

The Virginians 2006

Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.

As You Like It 2004

Nikolai Ivanitch is a man of influence; he made a notorious horse-stealer return a horse he had taken from the stable of one of his friends; he brought the peasants of a neighbouring village to their senses when they refused to accept a new overseer, and so on.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Church got word of his intention at a given time, and taking a man named Kelly with him he rode all night, and finding a companion of Marker's, he got the information that the horse-stealer would likely cross over some 20 miles westward.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

Church then shot Marker's horse and captured the horse-stealer before he got to the line.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

Some of his characteristics, and at least one of the concluding episodes of the story, were suggested by the career of a New South Wales horse-stealer who became known as 'Captain Moonlight.'

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

From this elevation he cries out to the great Wahconda, humming a melancholy tune, and calling on him to have pity on him, and make him a great hunter, horse-stealer, and warrior.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Hungarian Hussar known to drink with a Banderial Hussar; never will he sit at the same table: if he meets a snake he crushes it under foot -- a wolf he will hunt in the mountains -- with a buffalo he will fight on the open heath -- with a miserable horse-stealer he will wrestle for a halter; but as for the Banderial Hussar, he spits in his face wherever he meets him.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

It seem she had been an old horse-stealer as most people conjecture, though he himself denied it, and as he pretended at his trial to have bought those two for which he died at Northampton Fair, so he continually endeavoured to infuse the same notions into all persons who spoke to him at the time of his death.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward