They do not even complain of the hat-boys--bloodthirsty little brigands who snatch your hat and other wraps before you enter a restaurant.
There are brigands to be met with still and as we travelled we heard of a British officer who had just been made captive as he wandered about in search of a dayâs shooting.
As it was, I felt satisfied and charmed with modern Smyrna, and did not climb the hill behind on which stands the ruins of a castle, and where brigands still lie in wait for the unwary traveller.
As you may well suppose, I gave thebrigands a wide berth.
What need to mention the multitude of those who wandered in deserts and mountains[31] consumed by hunger and thirst and cold and diseases and brigands and wild beasts?
And he having most unjustly maltreated him with twice as many tortures and stripes as the brigands had received, burnt him to death between them, being honoured, happy man, by the example of Christ.
These the brigands appropriated, placing Billy upon one and Miguel and Bridge upon the other.
He spoke in a quick, low whisper, for the spokesman of the brigands evidently understood a little English and was on the alert for any trickery.
Some knights who called themselves friends of the King, whose names I am not minded to set down here, kept brigands in their service, who were every whit as bad.
It became a den of a band of murderous brigandsat the beginning of the nineteenth century.
This opens into a hall in the midst of which yawns a horrible chasm, across which lies a rough bridge of poles that give access to some small chambers beyond, which had formerly been tenanted by the brigands who had their lair in this cavern.
But if this "petrified forest," as it has been called, served as a refuge for the peasants in troublous times, it has also been employed by brigands as their fastness whence to ravage the country and render the roads perilous.
Though outnumbered, Basil shouted defiance; a conflict began, and so stout was the resistance they met that, after several had fallen on either side, the brigands drew off.
The loss of some half dozen men grieved him to the heart; had the brave fellows fallen in battle with the Greeks, he would have thought less of it; to see them slain, or captured, by mere brigands was more than he could bear.
This same Francastel wrote to General Grignon: "Make those brigands tremble!
Since our virtue, our moderation, our philosophic ideas, are of no use to us, let us be brigands for the good of the people; let us be brigands!
This time, however, these public brigands made a mistake.
They remain what they always have been, a small feudality of brigands superposed on conquered France.
At Meaux, the brigands have cut the throats of fifteen prisoners, seven of whom are priests whose relations belong to the town or its environs.
How do you think the Roman provinces and Italy, after the tribes from the North had settled down within the Empire, compared with Mexico after the years of revolution with peons and brigands in control?
He next detailed to the council his pursuit of the Green Riders; and related the manner in which he had been attacked and defeated, although he rated the number of the brigands as not less than triple that of his own band.
Did we not, within this half hour, encounter a whole party of as undoubted brigands as ever lived?
Certain of his devotees were simply brigands who, like the Neapolitan miscreants after 1860, sought to cast a glamour over their depredations by affecting to be in arms on behalf of their former King.
There is not more truth in this tale than in that of the brigands who, on a certain Friday, overpowered and slew a caravan of merchants between Dibra and Prizren.
I must warn any sportsman intending to shoot in the Jihoon river that the wandering Arabs who are to be found there, though not brigands of a high order, are petty thieves to the last degree.
Perhaps there exists a sort of sympathy between brigandsand sportsmen, for I cannot call to mind any instance of a sportsman being robbed.
Signalized as the hardiest of the indirect allies of the brigands in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne.
He had dealings with the brigands and was arrested in the suit of the Chauffeurs of Mortagne, in 1809, but acquitted.
Although the change of locality might make it more difficult for the brigands of Arroyo to discover his retreat, he was still not so certain of being free from danger.
The names of Morelos and Galeana in the midst of this band of brigands were, for him, like the whisper of the Lord to Daniel in the den of lions.
He knew that the country surrounding the lake was entirely uninhabited; and the brigands of Arroyo would scarce extend their excursions to such an unprofitable foraging ground.
The brigands ate at the same table with Don Mariano and his daughters--were waited upon by the servants of the hacienda--and slept in the very best beds the house afforded.
The twobrigands remained for some time without saying a word, both reflecting on the scheme of murder and pillage which they now premeditated.
He had seen the party of brigands as they rode past with the torches; and his people had easily recognised their old fellow-servants, Arroyo and Bocardo.
Virtue has been my motto through life; and I assure your honour, that I was forced to consort with thesebrigands very much against my will.
To strengthen this precaution, Don Fernando had informed the brigands on their entering the house, that his wife, Marianita, was not at home.
Poignard in hand, the brigands were tracing out to Don Mariano the line of conduct he should pursue.
I hope the insurgentbrigands may not be coming to attack us!
The second of the two brigands who, though smaller in size and of a more astute expression of countenance, was equally characterised by an aspect of brutal ferocity--for a moment appeared to quail before the indignation of his companion.
Directoire, one of a gang of brigands who extorted money from people by burning the feet of the victims.
Bands of brigands unite to subvert a country, place it under tribute, seize its lands, enslave its inhabitants.
There was formed among the crowned brigands of Europe a conspiracy which threatened not only French liberty, but likewise that of all nations.
The brigands advanced from their concealment, and their chief, who seemed a most pleasant and polite scoundrel, commanded his men to inspect the luggage of the travellers.
The mountains abound in caves known only to the brigands and shepherds.
Yes, yes," he murmured, "I am in the hands of the brigands of whom Albert de Morcerf spoke.
About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.
The brigands had carried me off, and conducted me to a gloomy spot, called the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
The brigandshave never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.
That astonishment ceased when one of the brigands remarked to his comrades that Cucumetto was stationed ten paces in Carlini's rear when he fell.
The two brigands looked at each other for a moment--the one with a smile of lasciviousness on his lips, the other with the pallor of death on his brow.
Black spiders lie in wait for them as do brigands for travelers.
Those whose faith in the American people carried them hopefully through the long contest with slavery will not be daunted before any minor perplexities of Chinese immigrants or railway brigands or enfranchised women.
The brigands are not sybarites, and they sleep under the open sky on the 30th of April.
The only difference which exists between devils and brigands is, that devils are less black than they are said to be, and brigands more dirty than people suppose.
We passed large tracts of land that had formerly been in a high state of cultivation, and the charred remains of numerous villages bespoke the desolation caused by these brigands of the White Nile.
These people had deserted their agricultural occupations in the Soudan and had formed companies of brigands in the pay of various merchants of Khartoum.
The consumption of cattle by thesebrigands is enormous.
Formerly these brigands nominally received fifty and fifty-five piastres, in addition to one third of all cattle that might be captured in razzias.
New and important countries had been investigated, not by explorers or traders, but by the brigands of Abou Saood, whose first introduction was the unprovoked attack and carrying off of slaves and cattle.
In that attack the brigands had lost five men, whose guns had been subsequently taken to Kabba Rega for sale by the natives we had seen at Masindi.
After a week's sojourn among the Umiro, during which he had received large presents of elephants' tusks, and seventy head of oxen from the confiding natives, the treacherous ruffian gave an order to his brigands at sunset.
With a dozen of them, I fancy we can hold our own with the biggest band of brigands to be found among the mountains of Mexico.
The brigands had by this time discovered who were their assailants, and no doubt knew something of the skill of the American rifleman.
Before permitting him to depart in the diligencia, the brigands had taken his bond for ten thousand dollars--as collateral security against the ransom of his daughters!
While occupied in front of it we were saluted with a volley from above; while the besiegedbrigands were seen over the parapet of the azotea.
It don't follow that they were any the less brigands on that account.
If we should find that the brigands were "abroad," my troopers would be spared a toilsome ascent, and the chagrin of a disappointment.
A band ofbrigands taken into the service of a civilised nation, and treated as its own soldiers!
All of them, one time or another, have done a little bit of street fighting; and I'm much mistaken if there's one of their number who would shy from an encounter with Mexican brigands anything under ten to one.
To punish these brigands who infest the road between here and Puebla.
Certainly the sounds were not such, as I should have expected to proceed from a band of brigands engaged in an interlude of festivity.
I felt certain I should now have the chance of chastising--if not the same brigands who had assassinated my artist acquaintance--some who would have behaved quite as badly, had the opportunity occurred to them.
It had been, in October, 1791, the scene of the horrible massacres of La Glaciere perpetrated by Jourdan Coupe-Tete and the "Brigands of Avignon.
The Pope is resolved to head his armies, and the Lazzaroni of Naples have presented St. Januarius with a gold fuzee, to fire on the Brigands Francais.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brigands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
