highwayman

The highwayman is the inspiration for my victims in my newest book.

The Inspiration of Ozymandias 2006

Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Her chair had been stopped by a highway-man: the great oaf of a servant-man had fallen down on his knees armed as he was; and though there were thirty people in the next field working when the ruffian attacked her, not one of them would help her; but, on the contrary, wished the Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck.

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants’ War.

March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants’ War.

johann wolfgang von goethe | outside of the gate | Faust I. « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Give me a highwayman and I was full to the brim; a Jacobite would do, but the highwayman was my favourite dish.

Memories and Portraits 2005

The word highwayman is first attested from the year 1017. [

GoodShit 2010

But in our neighborhood a highwayman was a myth, -- we had hardly ever even heard of one; and so, after no end of misgivings lest one or another lion in the way should after all compel the relinquishment of the excursion, literally at the eleventh hour they were fairly on their way.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

There was the whole town of Ohadi to testify that the highwayman was a big man, of the build of Harry, and that he spoke with a Cornish accent.

The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

A dozen or more were cut off in this way, and soon it came to be whispered about that Marot the highwayman was the man that did it, and the chase became hot at his heels. '

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894