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Highwaymen Band of Merry Men Robin Hood’s brigands. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood] English highwayman whose gang slew and ate their victims. [Brit. Folklore: Misc.] 17th-century British highwayman; subject of ballads. [Br. Legend: Harvey, 256] stole, especially from the Doone clan. [Br. Lit.: Lorna Doone, Magill I, 524–526] the loves an innkeeper’s daughter, who vainly tries to save him from capture. [Br. Poetry: Noyes “The Highwayman” ] outlaw; stole from rich to give to poor. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood] the “Gentleman Highwayman”; associate of Dick Turpin. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 363] highwayman hero of the opera. [Br. Lit.: Beggar’s Opera] highwaymen; worked their crimes by night. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] Robin Hood of Scotland. [Br. Lit.: Rob Roy] (1706–1739) enjoyed short and brutal career as horsestealer and highwayman. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 2808] treacherous and crafty brigand. [Br. Lit.: Beggar’s Opera] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself. Diners, heimgangers, shop-girls, confidence men, panhandlers, actors, highwaymen, millionaires and outlanders hurried, skipped, strolled, sneaked, swaggered and scurried by me; but I took no note of them. Do you suppose highwaymen don't dress handsomer than that? |
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