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 Randall Parrish
Miss Whitmore knelt and examined the cattle thief curiously.
From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell
"But you are not a cattle thief," she protested.
From When A Man's A Man by Harold Bell Wright
He wondered why even a cattle thief would choose that site at the back door of perdition to pitch his tent and lodge his family.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
