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- noun Plural form of
robber .
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Examples
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I don't think kiddies playing cops and robbers is bad because it's not true.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The only moral difference between you and burglars and street robbers is which law is in question.
Default Setting - We are sorry « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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Umbreit understands it of the Bedouin robbers, who are quite regardless of the comforts of life, "They pass the night naked, and uncovered," &c.
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These Bedouin robbers, with the unbridled wildness of the ass of the desert, go forth thither.
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Like the wild asses (Job 24: 5) they (these Bedouin robbers) reap
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Arrived at the town or village of Lerma, famous for its manufacture of spurs, and standing in a marshy country at the entrance of the valley of Toluca, all danger of the robbers is passed, and with the danger, much of the beauty of the scenery.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Daughters of men whom you call robbers, we aspire to be the companions of our lovers or our husbands.
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"What! do you call robbers who pillage diligences fine young men?"
The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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I quite agree, robbers, which is why I put my order in last week!
Now I am a book! 2009
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I quite agree, robbers, which is why I put my order in last week!
Now I am a book! 2009
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