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an exorbitant price
what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery - robbery of travellers on or near a public road
How To Use highway robbery In A Sentence
- what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery
- A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
- Fifty dollars for a meal like this ? - That's simply highway robbery!
- How she was the home of lies and flies, the grave of reputation, the refuge of the remittance man and the bad egg; the land of the unexpected pest, but never the unexpected blessing; of sunstroke and fever; scandals and broken careers; snobbery, bobbery, and highway robbery. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
- From pitch-and-toss he proceeded to manslaughter if necessary: to highway robbery; to Tyburn and the rope there. Roundabout Papers
- It's highway robbery, charging that much for gas!
- Traffic policing or highway robbery? Times, Sunday Times
- Sixty dollars for a textbook? That's highway robbery.
- * The reader will note, that when we use the term foot-pad, we mean him who robs on foot only; highway-man intends one who robs on horse back. highway robbery. Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven on the 20th Day of October, 1790, For a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last [The Writer of This History Has Directed That the Money Arising From the Sales Thereof, Aft