'Twas sore-footed that I gained home at last, but all the way I discussed a many plans for the discovery and punishment of my moss-trooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

The stark moss-trooper, and the clanking stride of the warrior, had not again started into life; nor had the light blazed gloriously in the sepulchre of the wizard with the mighty book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

A book of such charms, of that era, taken from the pocket of a moss-trooper or bog-trotter, contained among other things a recipe for the cure of intermittent fever by certain barbarous characts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the State into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Moss was similarly used in the north; cf. moss-trooper and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

He was the very type of a grim, calm old Border moss-trooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference

A fancied moss-trooper, the boy The truncheon of a spear bestrode.    From Wordnik.com.  [The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces] Reference

He covered country like a moss-trooper, sometimes on a rusty bicycle, oftener on foot, and you couldn't tire him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Standfast] Reference

Moss in Scotland is bog in Ireland, and moss-trooper is bog-trotter: there was, however, one hut built of loose stones, piled up with great thickness into a strong though not solid wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected English Letters]

And then, outside their own bickering wars and hates, the grim enemies that come up against them from the woodlands; the hawk that dashes among the coops like a moss-trooper raiding the border, knowing well that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference

The Lairds of Staneholme had wild moss-trooper blood in their veins, and they had vindicated it to the last generation by unsettled lives, reckless intermeddling with public affairs, and inveterate feuds with their brother lairds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

They took from me the certificate that you wot of — that of the Baron — ay, he was a moss-trooper like themselves — You asked me of it, and I could never find it, but they found it — it showed the marriage of — of — my memory fails me — Now see how men differ!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the State into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excursions] Reference

O 'a great muckle moss-trooper wi' his marrow ahint him ridin 'the ae black horse.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

How now, my lad,” said he to Halbert, who was handling the long lance which he had laid aside; “how do you like such a plaything? — will you go with me and be a moss-trooper?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Unable, by reason of his lameness, to serve amongst his friends on foot, he had nothing for it but to rouse the spirit of the moss-trooper, with which he readily inspired all who possessed the means of substituting the sabre for the musket. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)] Reference

With many a moss-trooper, came on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem] Reference

Will you go with me and be a moss-trooper? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Deloraine, "a stark moss-trooper," videlicet, a happy compound of poacher, sheep-stealer, and highwayman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference