I thought they wouldn't dacoit as a business on the Dalhousie road.
It will never do for the gang to think they can dacoit my belongings.
I must make further inquiries at the Club," said I, "but that man seems to be of the proper dacoit type.
Also, the simple Dacoit who used to enjoy himself very pleasantly, has been put into a department, and the Thug with him.
Also, I wished to understand how such a people could produce the dacoit of the newspaper, and I knew that a great deal of promiscuous knowledge comes to him who sits down by the wayside.
The son of a dacoit may be converted during his school life, and become a preacher.
Two men living in the village to which we were going, surprised one of these dacoit leaders in a jungle path, and thinking that his head would be worth more to them than it ever would be to him, they struck it off with their dahs.
Of course our ears had been filled with exciting stories of dacoit atrocities.
He has a dacoit with him," he replied, and showed me the long curved knife which he held in his hand, a full inch of the blade bloodstained.
Fu-Manchu has dacoits in his train, and probably it is one who operates the Zayat Kiss, since it was a dacoit who watched the window of the study this evening.
Without other evidence, the fact that they both died in the same way as the dacoit would be conclusive, for we know that Fu-Manchu killed the dacoit!
One wild cry, ending in a rattling gasp, told of a dacoit gone to his account.
The Doctor turned, and with the dacoitwalked back.
That it was the dacoit who had shown me this murderous attention I could not doubt.
Then: "The dacoit must leave his knife also," he stipulated.
But it was not till I arrived in Burma that I learnt that this was the armed escort of the outlawed Wuntho Sawbwa, the dacoit chief who has a price set on his head.
It was the elephant of the Wuntho Prince--a little earlier and I might have had the privilege of meeting the dacoit himself.
The dacoit snatched away the sack and snapped the shutter fast.
Like any drunkard I stood there in the middle of the road looking up at the vacant window where the dacoit had been, and up at the window above the shop of J.
The dacoit had disappeared, and Fu-Manchu placidly was watching the four lean and hideous animals in the cage.
The seared and pock-marked face set in a sort of placid leer, the dacoit adjusted the sliding partitions to Smith's recumbent form, and I saw the purpose of the graduated arches.
But the dacoit went rolling over in the darkness of the room, as helpless in face of that ramrod stroke as the veriest infant.
Fu-Manchu came in person with Nayland Smith, in response to the wailing signal of the dacoit who had accompanied me.
Many dacoit leaders were killed or captured, and the elements of regular administration were introduced into several districts.
Technically, a dacoit is one of five or more persons banded together for purposes of robbery.
His life was forfeit for many crimes; but he was an old man, and two of his sons were at large, leading dacoit bands.
For some of thedacoit movements there was no doubt a slight political move.
Alaungpaya seems to have been a Dacoitchief who began his career at Shwebo,[1] and made himself master of the whole country.
The country was overrun with dacoit bands, ranging in numbers from five to five hundred.
No measure was more efficacious than this to secure the destruction of dacoit gangs by depriving them of support and sustenance.
Dacoit bands were dispersed, their leaders captured or killed, the rank and file in many cases allowed to surrender and return to their homes on suitable terms.
The year 1896 saw the very last of the dacoit Bos.
A really pious monk could hardly become a dacoit chief.
He was killed in the Bassein District, one of the first victims of the dacoit bands which harassed Lower Burma for three or four years.
In the pursuit the broadest margin possible will be drawn between leaders of rebellion and the professional dacoit on the one part, and the villagers who have been forced into combinations against us.
A dacoit stepped into view, crouched down, and carefully trained the piece.
The immensely powerful weapon had driven the bullet straight through the centre of a palm log, through the body of the dacoit behind, and wounded one of the party following up.
The watchers distinctly saw three or four fall, but these were swiftly dragged among the trees by their comrades, and for a moment not a single dacoit was to be seen.
The dacoit at the foot of the ladder was staring upwards, intent on the doings of his comrades, when Jack landed without a sound scarce a yard behind him.
The second dacoit plunged into the bushes, and followed easily the track left by four men and two ponies.
The fallen dacoit had trained it perfectly before he dropped, and a comrade now touched off the piece.
The withering storm of bullets poured from the three magazines had no more effect in checking the dacoit rush than if the bullets had been drops of rain.
The young sahib save my life also when the dacoit thought to chop off my head.
It was better to let the dacoit pass or to run away than to run the risk of a trial for murder.
Nga Pyo, a notorious rebel and dacoit leader, was present, but did not expose himself, and lived until 1889, to be assassinated by a colleague.
He was proclaimed a rebel and dacoit and every chief in the Shan States was desired to treat him as an outlaw.
No dacoit could have wished for better conditions, especially when an inefficient district officer and a poorly commanded police battalion were added.
The districts south of Katha, namely Shwebo and Ye-u, were controlled by dacoit gangs under active leaders.
Many of the dacoit leaders were captured or killed at that time, but the country was not thoroughly controlled.
On 29th August, Yan Sin, a dacoit who had submitted, was caught and killed by Nga Kway in Pagan.
But it now appeared that the district on both sides of the Mu was in the hands of three or four dacoit leaders who collected a fixed revenue from each village, which was spared so long as the demand was paid.
The dacoit leaders knew the advantage of being able to live where our men could not.
In August, 1888, however, a pretender with the title of the Shwekinyo Prince raised his standard, and was joined by a noted dacoit Bo Le and others.
Concurrently with this action the dacoit gangs were hunted incessantly from jungle to jungle and village to village, and severe fines were imposed on villages which harboured the outlaws or withheld information regarding their movements.
The Jemadar dips his finger in the pitcher of blood, and afterwards touches the sugar and calls out loudly, 'If I have embezzled any money may Bhagwan punish me'; and each dacoit in turn pronounces the same sentence.
Raghu Dacoit is a dangerous and clever man," A few days after, Madhub Babu received a letter from the famous outlaw saying that he would be pleased to visit the rich man's country house.
On one of these occasions, the latest doings of Raghu Dacoitwere being discussed.
Raghu Dacoit Madhub Babu, a Calcutta gentleman, owned much property in that city and was known far and wide on account of his great wealth.
The distraught mother, unconscious of the flight of time, thinking him the heartless dacoit returned to kill her boy, fell at his feet in an agony of supplication: "Spare my son.
While still smarting under the loss of his valuables, the Babu received another letter from Raghu Dacoit asking, "Had his visit given Madhub Babu pleasure?
But like Robin Hood of old, Raghu Dacoit had caught popular fancy by his generosity to the poor.
A Punjabee Dacoit In a railway train several Punjabee ladies sat on the lower berths of a second class compartment, laughing and talking gaily.
In Burma also the word dacoit came to be applied in a special sense to the armed gangs, which maintained a state of guerilla warfare for several years after the defeat of the king and his army.
Just at daybreak there was a distant noise of men moving in the jungle, and the Dacoit half-way down the path fired his gun.
I had fallen into the hands of the most troublesome, most ruthless, and most famous of the Dacoit leaders.
The assassins were but a gang of four, therefore, probably, was the same band as that which the villagers had beaten off in the evening, with the loss of one; for the dacoit generally works in parties of five.
Dacoit will revenge this upon some of us," said Mr. Golden Grandfather.
Had he been the victim of other perils, and had the dacoit only found the watch in the jungle and appropriated it?
Law and order elsewhere was conspicuous by its absence, therefore the dacoit flourished.
My blessing," and the dacoit rose and tottered out of the room.
There was that also which brought a hot flush of shame to his forehead, for he had lied to his guest when he had expressed his inability to bring Bah Hmoay, the dacoit priest, to justice.
Ever ready with your tongue as usual," said the dacoit as he rose, flung his saffron robe loosely around him and followed her with feeble steps.
I don't mean by this that Smalley is a dacoit in disguise, but that they are both bigoted representatives of religion, and each believes the other to be the fiend himself.
They were more effective than the police; the dacoit couldn't stand them and came here, worse luck!
After six months of absolute quiet he had begun to think that the dacoit had disappeared with the destruction of his gang, when here came a fresh atrocity--an atrocity out-Heroding the others.
Just at daybreak there was a distant noise of men moving in the jungle, and the Dacoit halfway down the path fired his gun.
Over one broad shoulder, slung sackwise, the dacoit carried a girl clad in scanty white drapery.
This accomplished, I set out upon a series of guesses, basing these upon Smith's assurance that the death of the dacoit afforded a clue to the first message and the note which he (Smith) had pinned upon the door a clue to the second.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dacoit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bandit; gangster; hoodlum; thief; thug
