horse-stealing

I would have gone alone, but the sister had a horse-stealing boyfriend who was heading in the same general direction, namely north, to get away from the law.

Static 2010

On June 16, five Cheyenne warriors out on a hunt and horse-stealing expedition spied a column of soldiers in the valley of the Rosebud.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Amyas — “Well, cousin hide-and-seek, how long have you added horse-stealing to your other trades?”

Westward Ho! 2007

The criminal court was sitting, and was at that moment trying some criminals for horse-stealing: with whom it would most likely go hard: for live stock of all kinds being necessarily very much exposed in the woods, is held by the community in rather higher value than human life; and for this reason, juries generally make a point of finding all men indicted for cattle-stealing, guilty, whether or no.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Then he had got to poaching and to horse-stealing, for which he suffered.

The Virginians 2006

Casterbridge, the county-town, was a dozen or fifteen miles off; and though in those days, when men were executed for horse-stealing, arson, and burglary, an assize seldom passed without a hanging, it was not likely that she could get access to the body of the criminal unaided.

Wessex Tales 2006

And he confesses, "Yes, I stole Farmer Brown ` s horse," and it ` s all over the news, because horse-stealing big in Atlanta, I hear.

CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2006 2006

No, not much; they were well paid, and had often given father and Starlight information before, though they took care never to show out in the cattle or horse-stealing way themselves.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

Either it was a big nugget, or a new reef, or a tent robbery, a gold-buyer stuck up and robbed in the Ironbarks, a horse-stealing match, a fight at a dance-house, or a big law case.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

We knew the auctioneers there and everywhere else would sell a lot of likely stock and ask no questions; but there had been such a lot of horse-stealing since the diggings broke out that a law had been passed on purpose to check it.

Robbery Under Arms 2004