“Everything bad that could be said has already been said about Mrs. reiver, in another tale.”

“Surmounting the wall, I approached the spot where I had seen the reiver first.”

“Because Mrs. reiver was cold and hard, he said she was stately and dignified.”

“What shall a young reaver do but spend his coins like the snake sips water?”

“The great-handed reaver felt a hot scar tear across his cheeks and the bitter salt-welling of blood whet his lips and nostrils.”

“As a mercenary and reaver he should not have any qualms as the gold trickled into his pockets, the gold of blood-letting.”

“Halfway-house devotional murders, gunfarmers and self-styled reavers.”

“Reavers undermine an enemy's ability to fight back, grinding opponents down until they succumb.”

“Reavers are warriors who combine the art of combat with the entropic energies of death.”

“Despite a brief revival during the British civil wars, the reivers had disappeared by the end of the 17th century.”

“As an aside, I visited Tullie House museum a while ago and the section about the Border reivers is quite fascinating.”

“The Pass of Ryvoan in the Cairngorms is both the beginnings and the end of an ancient cattle reivers ' trail.”