brigand

Example Sentences

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What links Robert’s brigand tableau to most of the work around it is its landscape setting.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

I'm not even much of a brigand except for when I get a belt-full of coffee.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2011

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

She had been collected by some brigand or another for a friend of mine, who said she couldn't have her in the house.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010

It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor’s greatest foe.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien