And when this was known the banditti retired, without having performed any memorable exploit, and dispersing, according to their wont, they sought the trackless recesses of the lofty mountains.
These two provinces being full of banditti were formerly subdued by the proconsul Servilius, in a piratical war, and were passed under the yoke, and made tributary to the empire.
But in Isauria the banditti formed into bodies and roamed through the villages, laying waste and plundering the towns and wealthy country houses; and by the magnitude of their ravages they also greatly distressed Pamphylia and Cilicia.
Therefore as soon as the army was beheld at a distance, and the music of the trumpeters was heard, the banditti halted and stood still for a while, brandishing their threatening swords, and after a time they marched on slowly.
They were the banditti and, in 1776, the Tories of the western hills; they pillaged the homes of the men who were fighting for the democratic ideal.
Among the rough element were Tory banditti from the overmountain region.
I know not, indeed, that any danger was justly to be dreaded, but the negroes were unaccountably apprehensive of banditti during the whole of the journey.
After the alarm at La Ferette, I learned from Sigismund Biederman that a party of banditti were pursuing your father and you, with a view to pillage and robbery.
We scorn the friendship of banditti and caterans," retorted Murdoch, "and would not stoop to accept it.
It is solitary enough,' said Emily, 'but you have no banditti here.
Yet, if they had plundered him, it still appeared improbable, that they should have brought him to the castle, and it was also more consistent with the manners of banditti to murder those they rob, than to make them prisoners.
The extent and darkness of these tall woods awakened terrific images in her mind, and she almost expected to see banditti start up from under the trees.
I knew, that, if I shewed myself, the banditti would discover who he was, and probably murder us all, to prevent their secret in the chateau being detected.
Did you ever hear thebanditti relate any thing extraordinary of these rooms?
She shuddered at the idea, and, looking at her conductors, to observe whether they were armed, thought she saw in them the banditti she dreaded!
They constitute a banditti more fierce and cruel than any whose atrocities are recorded on the pages of history or romance.
Nolhac, whom the banditti themselves had hitherto held sacred, was sent prisoner to the castle the very day before that on which the six hundred victims were to be put to death.
That thesebanditti were in a starving condition was well-known.
It was said, a banditti of students from one of the colleges had actually taken the road, and made Carl Moor their model.
Once within my dominions, we may set at defiance Duke Albrecht and all the black banditti of Kalbs-Braten.
Texier had contrived a little entertainment for the royal party, by building an adjoining apartment in the style of a cavern, after the Gil Blas fashion, in which a party of banditti were to carry on their carousal.
A villain in the south of France, lately constructed a sort of machinery for murder, which was evidently on the plan of the trap-doors and bandittidisplays of the Porte St Martin.
But an actual leader of banditti has been just arrested, whose exploits in plunder have formed the romance of Germany for a considerable period.
The banditti in The Guardian(235) respect the poor like the outlaws in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
It contains some charming banditti scenes, while Alphonso's fictitious narrative in the last act is one of the strongest pieces of writing in our author.
The numerous nobles, turbulent, unprincipled and essentially robbers, had been in the habit of issuing from their castles at the head of banditti bands, and ravaging the country with incessant incursions.
He swept the roads of the banditti by which they were infested, and often espoused the cause of citizens and freemen against the turbulent barons and haughty prelates.
It has been heretofore known to Congress that frequent incursions have been made on our frontier settlements by certain banditti of Indians from the northwest side of the Ohio.
The Chickamaugas, aided by some banditti of another tribe in their vicinity, have recently perpetrated wanton and unprovoked hostilities upon the citizens of the United States in that quarter.
Now Kasim had heard from within the cave the horse hooves drawing nigh and yet nigher; and he fell down to the ground in a fit of fear never doubting that it was the clatter of the banditti who would slaughter him without fail.
The Chickamauga banditti watched from their eyries to pounce upon all boats that passed down the Tennessee, and their war bands harried the settlements far and wide, being joined in their work by parties from the Cherokee towns proper.
The Federal authorities, both military and civil, disliked the intruders as much as they did the Indians, stigmatizing them as "a banditti who were a disgrace to human nature.
Most of these banditti were hunted down and transferred to the galleys.
We were very jolly afterward, and amazingly triumphant over the frost-bitten, snow-buried soldier-banditti that had so long lorded it over continental Europe.
Among the most notorious of the banditti chieftains was one Carlo Carrera.
It is no wonder that your true Parisian is troubled with the crowd and uproar that the fetes bring to Paris, and, above all, with the uncouth hordes of banditti provincials.
I know not indeed that any danger was justly to be dreaded, but the Negroes were unaccountably apprehensive of banditti during the whole of the journey.
During his voyage from Genoa to Barcelona he was attacked by a delirious fever, in consequence of the wound he had received in his rencontre with the banditti of the Appenines.
Many of these men, accustomed to banditti warfare, took to the highways.
While those banditti confined themselves to direct attacks upon me, I could leave to the laws the task of punishing them.
In this way all banditti for robbing the mails or travelers would be prevented, as well as all vagabonds removed from among the Indians.
I did injustice," he said, "to the thieves and outlaws of these woods, when I supposed such banditti to belong to their bands.
He was instantly made prisoner and pulled from his horse by two or three of the [v]banditti who crowded around him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banditti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
