A few minutes later, fastened under his arms to the lamp-post, the corpse of the bandit swung to the night breeze with the poster attached to his clothes: "Shot as a thief.
Was that banditof a red monk named the Sire of Plouernel?
They must have killed her, those bandit monks, and were in a hurry to rid themselves of the body.
The Buriats, with their bandit Allies, now considering us unwilling to espouse their cause, contemplate dispatching troops to violate our frontiers and to compel our submission.
Probably the only things I ever carry which a bandit could use or dispose of readily, are arms and ammunition.
And lastly, very likely some tough little peasant-bandit restorer, not so long before the Etruscan conquest, whom the people came to mix up witl mightier figures half forgotten.
Out of all this comes something that makes this narrow little cultureless bandit city almost sympathetic to us,--and very largely indeed admirable.
We see his history, as the Romans did, through the lens of a tough little peasant-bandit city; through the lens of a pralaya, which makes pralayic all objects seen.
Upon one of his recent excursions the bandit captain had raided an old mission church for its candlesticks.
There had been a knot in a rawhide string, and a bandit in the mountains had lifted his hat and had said simply: "Long live La Señorita!
In Lower California, together with half a dozen of his bandit following, he had been taking care of his own skin and at the same time lining his own pockets.
The bandit captain muttered but came back into the yard.
The Magi of this dark abode, the guide in wide sombrero, black eyed and wearing a mustache fierce as a bandit of the Corsican isle, though harmless as a Kansas Populist, beckons on and leads the way.
Since my arrival the peninsula had been ringing with the exploits of one Pernales, a bandit of the old caliber, who had thus far outgeneraled even that world-famous exterminator of brigands, the modern guardia civil.
The good old days of the bandit and the contrabandista are forever gone in Spain; the humdrum era of the civil guard is come.
Pernales, the anachronism, the twentieth-century bandit of the environs of Cordoba, had fallen.
The bandit of the Abruzzi, his hands scarcely laved of the blood which still remains under his nails, goes to seek absolution from the priest; you have sought absolution from the ballot, only you have forgotten to confess.
Villa, the famous Mexican bandit chief, when he conferred on the border with Major-General Scott as to the firing at Naco, it is said, had whispered to the American General a story of Japanese conspiracy in Mexico City.
But later, when the United States recognized Carranza as ruler of Mexico and turned against Villa, the bandit chief hastened to seek aid against his "neighbor," from Tokio.
The climax of the story is reached when Flodoardo, under oath to deliver up the bandit Abellino, appears before the Doge at the appointed hour and reveals his double identity.
But when you were binding the poor bandit weren't you afraid he'd bite you?
If you could have a ghost and a bandit in this patrol we'd be complete," Westy said.
That girl had been listening to Westy telling the policeman about everything and so now she said to our young hero: "You don't call that binding a bandit with ropes, do you?
When the men came back from Riverview Park they had that horrid bandit with them--just think!
You might chase a bandit on a merry-go-round but you'd never catch him.
I guess those men didn't think we could be much help to them; anyway they didn't hire Pee-wee to foil the bandit the way men do in stories.
It seemed sort of funny the way that fellow talked because all of us had seen that black face in the shack and a bandit is no joke, especially a negro bandit, but any color is bad enough.
Our young hero couldn't get that banditout of his mind.
Two or three men said they guessed it was the auto bandit all right.
It will take more than an auto bandit to get me off the straight path.
In spite of the bonds that held him the bandit gave a start.
The bandit raised his head: his mind was made up, and he shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.
I do not know any," the bandit answered with a grin.
In speaking with such brutal frankness the bandit had, as it were, raised himself in the eyes of all.
The bandit knelt, with his back turned to the executioners.
Fifteen thousand piastres," the bandit exclaimed; "not an ochavo less.
Suddenly a man bounded like a jaguar, and, before the bandit could even understand what was happening, he was firmly garotted, and reduced to a state of complete powerlessness.
The first moment of surprise past, the bandit regained all his coolness and audacity, and looked impudently at the hunter.
The bandit stumbled; but, rapidly recovering his feet, he threw himself furiously upon the unknown, whose slim and graceful form appeared to belie the possession of the irresistible strength he had displayed.
Then the defender of La Goualeuse, suddenly altering his mode of attack, rained on the head and face of the bandit a shower of blows with his closed fist, as hard and heavy as if stricken by a steel gauntlet.
While he spoke the bandit was backing toward the door that opened upon the lower hallway of the house.
The bandit bowed slightly, and addressed the gathering in a tone of dry raillery: "An outrage?
From thebandit burst a cry of futile warning; the pistol in his hand veered toward his assailant.
It seems that a number of people have received back property this afternoon--loot the bandit had taken.
The bandit did not enter the house during the evening, nor did he leave, nor was he found in the house afterward," he said, tonelessly.
If the bandit does show up there would be the very devil to pay!
The voice of the bandit leaped out at him like thin steel: "Quiet, you fool!
The automatic pistol gestured; under its menace everyone obeyed the command, for the calm assurance of the bandit made it seem extremely likely that he would use the weapon without compunction.
The hour of danger is past, and the notorious bandit has not arrived--or, if he has arrived, he is now in the hands of the law.
The bandit made no attempt to search them, but watched with eyes that glittered from behind his mask as they laid money and scarf-pins on the table.
A searching bandit behind me poked with his light into the crevice where a moment before I had been crouching.
Perona now standing up, the giant figure of the bandit towering over him.
And a bandit flyer could not very well land unseen or unnoticed, even in somnolent Nareda.
This might not be of the bandit kind, but a Hawk is a Hawk.
He sprang on the Red bandit with all his vigor and drove his teeth in deep.
If anybody had told him that a time would come when he would be glad to see Tex Roberts for any purpose except to fight him, the bandit would have had a swift, curt answer ready.
The lank bandit ripped out a sudden oath of alarm from behind the handkerchief he wore as a mask and turned his horse in its tracks.
The hardships to which the bandit is exposed in his wild life in the maquis cannot be much greater than those of the shepherd who, from fear or favour, shares with him his chestnuts, his goat's milk, and cheese.
As they could neither beard the bandit in his den, nor blow him up, it was determined to starve him out.
The sentry was punished, as they wished to take the bandit alive, hoping that he would discover those who were in league with him.
With all its perils and hardships, such a life of lawless independence has its charms; and the bandit knows that his memory will be honoured, and his death, if possible, revenged.
Just at that moment a gendarme offering a shot, thebandit levelled his gun at him and killed him.
Occasionally he stopped and looked down on the bandit while engaged in writing; still, with apparent sang froid, munching his chestnuts.
Mr. Benson tells a story of one of the most celebrated of the bandit chiefs, who levied black mail in the wild districts bordering on the forest of Vizzavona.
Illustration: A Korean Knight-errant] The very sight of a Korean with a pistol in his hand was enough to throw a Manchu bandit off his balance.
As Bob emerged on to the narrow platform the bandit was facing about to take the first step downwards.
The Italian bandit also begs the Virgin to bless his endeavours.
The note to Mendez meant little until he discovered where that bandit was to be found.
And he is unable to do more, in the field, than to accept defeat after defeat at the hands of the rebels under that formerbandit chief, 'Pancho' Villa.
In a more strictly-governed country he would be arrested in the city streets as soon as pointed out, but in Mexico the banditis likely to be a popular hero, and certainly Cosetta is that in Vera Cruz.
Cosetta, who had been a bandit for many years, and who feared the time would come when his appearance in Vera Cruz would be followed by arrest and execution, wanted to turn the landing plans over to General Maas, the Mexican commander here.
This bandit has done such things before, nor is it at all easy to punish him, for the scoundrel has many surprisingly loyal friends in Vera Cruz.
The house is the same from which I saw Cosetta peer yesterday, and I have reason to think that Lieutenant Cantor and the banditare on fairly good terms.
Especially when it turned out later that Jerry, who always gives a bandit a battle, didn't even try to lock horns with Crafty.
Jerry is one stage driver who will always give a bandit a battle.
I came to you because I want my money--sixteen hundred dollars that bandit Bill Wingo stole off me.
The climax came early in March, 1915, when Francesco Villa, the most daring and reckless leader of all the Mexican bandit bands, suddenly with his followers made an attack on the post at Columbus, New Mexico.
He was invading a hostile country which was not an enemy, for the raids of bandit bands across the border did not mean that Mexico as a state was attacking the United States.
Restrained by curiosity from leaving the captive out of sight, I gradually checked the impetuosity of my horse in such a way as to follow Juanito and the bandit at a short distance.
With this strange costume, long rapier, and thick, black curly hair, his appearance partook more of the bandit than of the lawyer.
Did you not see how obligingly he caused a message to be delivered to the bandit Pepito Rechifla, that one of the prettiest Chinas in Mexico dictated to me?
How the relations which appeared to exist between the banditand the licentiate?
Do I really see my friend under thisbandit costume?
I showed how insuring was, with the companies controlled by the bandits, simply the decoy; that the real object was the same as the real object of the big bandit banks.
No; bandit is too grand a word to apply to this game of 'high finance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bandit; bogey; bummer; desperado; gangster; hoodlum; marauder; outlaw; robber; thief; thug
