Quotes About Reivers

On occasion they were cut down in cold blood or hanged on the spot; in the saying of the Border, which has passed into the language, they had been taken "red-hand", which was "in the deede doinge", and the law was not likely to call a trod-follower to account if his rage got the better of him and he despatched a reiver out of

Elizabeth was trying not to laugh. How did you get the sons of reivers to read books? Well, you told them they couldn't have them and let nature take its course.