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There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2018

One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti".

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mercy on us! this is the great cock captain of the whole brood of banditti!

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George