cattle thief
Example Sentences
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When he first arrived in Washington as a Congressman, he was, he says, taken for "just another cattle thief from Texas" by the House leaders who assigned him to minor committees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, rather; he's a cattle thief, or worse.
From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Parrish, Randall
Personally I'm nobody, but officially I'm Corporal in Company B, Texas Rangers—well, if there isn't smiling Ed Winters, the biggest cattle thief ever born in Medina County.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Adams, Andy
A Thurston drew that in France long ago, and it has splitted many an Annandale cattle thief in the Solway mosses since.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert
Urbina agreed; "but you would not wish to be called a cattle thief, eh?"
From Heart of the Sunset by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
