highwayman

Example Sentences

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Thieves and highwaymen also ply the same roads.

From New York Times

Amid the clippings in his scrapbook about his exploits catching “highwaymen” are pasted some poems.

From New York Times

There’s a similarly fabulist quality to “The Amazing Bone,” in which Pearl, a pig in a polka-dot bonnet, is beset by pistol-wielding highwaymen.

From The New Yorker

Some say it was from a malaria outbreak that devastated the area in the 1850s, a violent attack on the local Lenni Lenape by Iroquois tribes, or for highwaymen who robbed travelers on the road.

From Washington Times

"A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!'"

From Salon