brigands

To claim that the Brothers Grossbart were cruel and selfish brigands is to slander even the nastiest highwaymen, and to say that they were murderous swine is an insult to even the filthiest boar.

November 2009 2009

After the enigmatic buccaneer captain Clement Cleveland returns to his cronies after a long stay with Troil and his daughters, the leadership of this group of brigands is hashed out by two competing captains.

Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006

"It looks to me as if these men whom you call brigands were inflicting a chastisement upon you, perhaps."

The Son of Monte-Cristo Jules Lermina 1877

Fellow has no politics, but rushing about the countryside after brigands, that is a different matter.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

Fellow has no politics, but rushing about the countryside after brigands, that is a different matter.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

Fellow has no politics, but rushing about the countryside after brigands, that is a different matter.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

If something had happened because of the so-called brigands, whatever Kharl might do was already too late.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

The brigands are a few hours ahead of us with a large force.

The Nightmare Begins Ahern, Jerry 1981

Naples, and the Spanish irregular levies, which maintained the national resistance against the French from 1808 to 1814, were called brigands by their enemies.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

The 90 so-called brigands having been passed through from the church into this house, fired at the three officers and then killed them with their bowie-knives.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman