Lexicographical Neighbors of Rieving
Literary usage of Rieving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders (1900)
"Then the Shifty Lad went to the wood that was next to the church and when his
mother came out from the sermon he cried, " Robbing and rieving, and stealing ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"But there are evil ways of doing things ultimately wise, and without committing
one's self to the opinion that border rieving was a sound national ..."
3. An Anthology of Recent Poetryby Lettice D'Oyly Walters by Lettice D'Oyly Walters (1920)
"Where are England's fighting Captains Who, with battle flags unfurled, Went
a-rieving all the rievers O'er the waves of all the world? ..."
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