How To Use Highwayman In A Sentence
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`Actually, Gran reckons I'm going to be Steeple Fritton's answer to Robin of Locksley, but I prefer to think of myself as a highwayman.
TICKLED PINK
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The choice traditionally presented by highwayman is supposed to have only one sensible answer.
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The highwayman forced each of the travelers to kick over 20 pounds.
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There is a ‘black sheep’ website offering a shortcut to people who want to trace their descent from a highwayman, cattle stealer or convict.
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Of course, according to the merciful judge at his subsequent trial, the dandy highwayman wasn't responsible for his actions that night as he had long suffered from manic depression.
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Although known as a highwayman and a robber, he was sentenced to death for horse stealing, and hanged on April 19, 1739.
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A highwayman robbed the traveler of his money.
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The highwayman is the inspiration for my victims in my newest book.
The Inspiration of Ozymandias
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The sensationalism will be bad enough when it becomes known he was killed by a highwayman.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman.
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The finding of his mare – J. the Third, as he laughingly dubbed her – decided the point; he forthwith took on himself the role of quixotic highwayman, roaming his beloved South Country, happier than he had been since he first left England; bit by bit regaining his youth and spirits, which last, not all the trouble he had been through had succeeded in extinguishing ....
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants’ War.
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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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
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Now used generally for remote rural areas ( "the bush") and scrubby forest. bushfire: wild fires: whether forest fires or grass fires. bushman/bushwoman: someone who lives an isolated existence, far from cities, "in the bush". (today: a "bushy") bushranger: an Australian "highwayman", who lived in the ` bush '-- scrub -- and attacked especially gold carrying coaches and banks.
Children of the Bush
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When he was told of his own dastardly deeds, he acted the part of an innocent bystander and watched in amusement as half a dozen troopers and police, joined by several civilians galloped off at great speed in search of the highwayman.
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He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him.
Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
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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
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The glance of cruel meaning which the tyranness, after having examined the lithe, twisted rod critically for an instant, cast upon the object of her malice, probably banished the last lingering hesitation from the breast of the latter, -- who turned away ostensibly to the performance of her accustomed duties, but in reality to settle the details of a crime unsurpassed in coolness and resolution by aught recorded of pirate or highwayman.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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Turpin's journey from east London butcher's boy to legendary highwayman chimes with the re-invention of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs as the jack-the-lad beach boy of Brazil.
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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
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Turpin, "said the hag, drawing as near to the highwayman as Bess would permit her;" dead men walk and ride -- ay, _ride_!
Rookwood
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The word highwayman is first attested from the year 1017. [
GoodShit
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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
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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
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But at least there was one Border highwayman -- or is "footpad" here the more correct term?
Stories of the Border Marches
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Harold Thomson's handkerchief showed the bullet hole and powder burns from the highwayman's gunshot.
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Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster.
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With his day's growth of stubble, short black hair and cockeyed smile he seemed more like a rogue or highwayman than magician.
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The Highwayman's Case suffices as a colourful example.
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As he took her to a tavern in York, Nance explained that she had left her lover, a married highwayman.