brigand

Example Sentences

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He’s both the handsome and heroic Jamie Lockhart and, his face stained with berry juice, he’s a dashing but dastardly brigand.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2016

In contrast to Francis Wheen's raucous account of Marx's life as hack, brigand and rapscallion, Sperber places the history of ideas at the heart of his study.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013

Proclaiming that every scurvy brigand is at heart just a Broadway gypsy between shows, it's the score's main example of roistering wit.

From Time • Dec. 1, 2010

When he was but a baby brigand in the employ of the University of Pittsburgh, Calipari's recruiting tactics very nearly incited a general hooley at the Big East's annual meeting.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2010

It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White