highwayman
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Rachel says the locals would enjoy telling them stories about how the forest is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin, Queen Boudicca and many more.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
How many other writers could convincingly depict a blind highwayman or cap that eerie encounter with a duel on bagpipes between Alan and a son of the famous Rob Roy?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2021
London highwayman Capt. Macheath sits in prison writing an opera based on his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2020
On this date in 1879, the stages between Maricopa and Phoenix were held up so frequently that acting Gov. John W. Gasper offered a bounty of $500 for every highwayman caught in the act.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
Alfhercht had let them out after they had agreed that he couldn’t go into the castle looking like a feral, forest-dwelling highwayman.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Kirsty MacLaren, 33, plays Margot, the tour guide whose bus is targeted by the unlikely highwaymen.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
Thieves practicing the Welsh folk tradition of Mari Lwyd encounter two resurrected 19th-century highwaymen.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
In the 1960s, the highwaymen had plans to drive Interstate 95 straight through D.C.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
“Traveling salesmen were the No. 1 target for highwaymen; they were easy targets,” he said.
From Washington Times ● May 4, 2016
“The more you keep them two highwaymen in the dark, the better off you is. You jus’ got the royal treatment and don’t have clue the first ’bout it.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
