brigand

Example Sentences

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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

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

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