woman-thieves

Updated: May 19, 2025

Now a knight it was Sir Surin de Salcote seeing that the argument grew hot and might lead to blows, rose and declared that this should be decided by beauty alone, and that none could be more fitted to judge than the fair lady whom the two of them had saved from woman-thieves at the Death Creek quay.

Henry Rider Haggard - The Brethren