The dacoits secured all the gold images, leaving the silver ones severely alone, and departed.
This aroused the cupidity of a gang of dacoits (robbers), who resolved some years ago to ease the Nambudri of a great portion of this treasure.
It was a sort of blockade of the whole face of the hills which was being kept up, and there were, probably enough, several other bands of Dacoits lurking in the jungle.
When it was dusk, Sivajee and eight of the Dacoits came up.
The Dacoits hurried out from the chamber, and lay down on the edge, where, sheltered by a parapet, they commanded the path.
The Dacoits had apparently no fear of any immediate attack.
It was evident to me now why the Dacoits did not climb up into the fortress.
I had gone not unwillingly, for the men were clearly, by their dress, Dacoits of the Deccan, and I had no doubt that it was intended either to ransom or exchange me.
Hesitation was useless, and I took my seat with my back to the Dacoits and my face to the hill.
The head-quarters of these gangs of Dacoits were the Ghauts.
No doubt their relatives, who knew that their connection with the Dacoitswas now known, would not let them come.
I assure you,' he says, 'the dacoits at Pannyput have no idea of sentiment.
Sometimes he turned out and dressed down dacoitson his own account; for the country was still smouldering and would blaze when least expected.
He enjoyed these charivaris, but the dacoits were not so amused.
Whin we was all dhressed, we counted the dead--sivinty-foive dacoitsbesides wounded.
Having a strict eye for justice he cast robbers and dacoits to crocodiles and to tigers and even found a savage pleasure in attending such functions.
The recital of their woes spurred on the dacoits and falling upon the Burmese, they cut off their heads.
Hardly had they marched a league, when a gang of Siamese dacoits appeared on the bank of the river and captured his spoils.
The Thugs asked to be allowed to travel under their protection, and the dacoitscarelessly assenting were shortly afterwards all murdered.
On one occasion a band of more than a hundred Thugs fell in with a party of twenty-seven dacoits who had with them stolen property of Rs.
Hutton, A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits and Gang-robbers of India (London, 1857).
They had, however, the satisfaction of knowing that the dacoits had not, as usual, accompanied robbery with murder.
The dacoits had entered, and stolen everything they could possibly carry off.
But that the dacoits would have murdered them had they awoke while they were plundering was plain.
Oh, keeping things in order generally, and running about after little dakus - that's dacoits -and so on.
The Burmese business was a subaltern's war, and our forces were split up into little detachments, all running about the country and trying to keep the dacoits quiet.
The dacoits had a trick of sending a crucified corpse down the river on a raft, just to show they were keeping their tail up and enjoying themselves.
Often had she heard tales of dacoits and their ruthless deeds.
Two Chinese Dacoits In a large house in Calcutta there lived an Englishman, his wife and her sister.
The awful word dacoits stood out in her mind in letters of fire.
The dacoits jumped from their dinghy and ran up the bank.
The servant was arrested, and he confessed that he was one of the band of dacoits who had sent the warning letter and had broken into the house.
But none of this gang of river dacoits were captured.
The dacoits were all captured and confessed their guilt as to the murder of the palki-bearers and the probable death of the two durwans, who, they averred, had fought like tigers.
The dacoits bound him, searched the police office, and then proceeded to hunt the house.
Don't be shamming," returned the dacoits contemptuously, "thou knowest well whom we mean.
Then the dacoits announced that the lady must be produced or they would force an entrance into the house.
The Magistrate told him of thedacoits and of his escape.
One day the old gentleman received a warning letter from a band of dacoits that the house would be visited by them that night.
Presently the door gave way and, with coarse oaths and triumphant threats, the dacoits entered.
The anxious listeners within felt sure these were the dacoits and longed for the arrival of the police.
She had witnessed the fight between the durwans and dacoits and the flight and pursuit of her mistress.
Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits and the Measures adopted by the Government of India for their Suppression, printed in 1849.
The dacoits were accustomed to watch for them in the darkest and most retired places on the roads and fell them to the ground with their bludgeons.
A famous tribe of dacoits who flourished up to about 1850, and extended their depredations over the whole of Northern and Central India.
Jutts and Kaikarees," replied Burma; "the boldest of all Dacoits and robbers; and who would not be tempted by the sum assured?
But before we proceed to make other arrangements, may I inquire whether any of the Dacoits are here, I should like to ask them some questions.
There were, too, Dacoits who attacked the lodgings of pilgrims, or waylaid them on the high roads, and plundered with little regard to consequences.
First it appeared as if a band of dacoits or robbers had surprised them, and the loss of their jewels and ornaments was the least they expected.
The Beydur chief who was in command of the party was soon aroused, and among his men were some of Runga's and some of Burma Naik's people; and it was at once determined that the Dacoitsshould be surprised and their booty captured.
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.
Since Fu-Manchu has dacoits in his service I might have expected that he would have Thugs.
Two runners, I thought there were, so that fourdacoits must have been upon our trail.
The dacoits whom the Chinaman had brought to England originally numbered seven, we learned.
Two of the pursuing dacoits had outdistanced their fellow (or fellows), and were actually within three hundred yards of us.
His dacoits and kindred ministers of death all must have fled, too.
The officers in command of parties and posts were beginning to know the country and the game, while the dacoits and their leaders were losing heart.
In May a large body of dacoits under the standard of Buddha Yaza, a pretended prince, who in preceding years had a large following in the Eastern Division, gathered in the Pin township in the north of the district east of Yenangyaung.
The wonder is that with a mere handful of Mounted Infantry at their disposal, our officers were able to run the dacoits down and exterminate them in so short a time.
A noted gang, led by men of more force than the ordinary leaders of dacoits possessed, had surrendered to Major Ilderton, who commanded a post at Wundwin, in the Meiktila district.
In truth the struggle with the dacoits was drawing to a close, and the forces of order were winning all along the line.
The dacoits were able to get food anywhere in the forests from the cutch boilers, and it was suspected ammunition from the Burman foresters in the Bombay Burma Company's service.
The rains were over, and I anticipated that the dacoits would again become active.
Small parties of dacoits could no longer move about without danger of being attacked and captured by the people they had preyed upon so long.
Their argument was, 'There are fewer dacoits now than there used to be even in the King's time.
I can recall one case in which dacoits pushed wood shavings up between a woman's legs and set them on fire.
Without troubling to inquire the number of the dacoits the planter called his one assistant; and taking their rifles the two Englishmen mounted their ponies and galloped to the village.
An officer of my acquaintance, when leading an assault on a stockade held by dacoits in Burma, ran against a panji which transfixed his thigh.
The forest lay calm and silent in the evening sunshine all about the clearing, and no sign of a blue-clothed figure was to be seen on its edge, yet all felt that the dacoits were near, and that great danger hung over them.
The whole thing happened so quickly that the dacoits had not crossed more than one half of the space intervening between monastery and jungle when Jack opened fire.
A band of Kachin dacoits had raided near the village some six months before, and three of the dacoits had been cut off and killed by the villagers.
It was his task to track the intruders down: his comrade was despatched to find the rest of the band and lead them to enjoy the revenge for which the blood-thirsty dacoits lusted.
This hint of the danger in which they still stood from the blood-thirsty and revengefuldacoits quickened their movements, and the wounded pony was stripped in a few moments.
What d'ye mean by letting the dacoits nearly get us?
It is solid jungle on both banks now, with no path at all The dacoits cannot follow except along the river itself.
We'll drop the dacoits for a sure thing," said Buck.
Well, it would be easy enough from above to sweep the ladder with a swift rifle fire and drive the dacoits back into their hiding-place.
They were on the edge of the forest when a confused uproar of voices told them that the dacoits had swarmed down the stairs and were in the stronghold they had so luckily deserted.
The dacoits were swarming nimbly up to the quiet room, from which they expected to fall like thunderbolts upon their unsuspecting enemies below.
The dacoits had given up trying to force the door quietly, and were beating it down.
The savage chief himself, indeed, managed to escape; but he was almost the only survivor of his band, and there was no more trouble with the Dacoits that season.
I sent a runner straight off to Damūdá for the police, but this delay has given the Dacoits time to betake themselves to the hills or the jungle.
Hunting Dacoitsis not in your line of business," said Jenkins, and with that they parted.
Show me, golden[1] youth, where the dacoitsare to be seen.
He therefore counselled a passive endurance of the firing, hoping by this means to lure the dacoits out of their cover into closer quarters; and this subterfuge took effect.
Several other women were brought in there also, the ring of men encircling the place, prepared to fire or strike at the dacoits if they ventured within reach.
One--two dacoits more fell dead, but the rest were fiercer than ever.
Were it not for the women, who came gallantly to the aid of the men, the fight would have been a short and hopeless one, for the dacoits evidently had been reinforced in numbers.
He caught up his gun and fired, but the dacoits were never still; they danced from place to place; they seemed to be ubiquitous, there was no taking aim at any one of them.
It was probable that the dacoits themselves had run short of powder on the previous evening, and had utilised the day by going to their homes to fetch more, for again they commenced by blazing away at long range.
That she had fallen a victim to the dacoits in their ambush among the jungle was the most likely fate to have befallen her.
He believed that the dacoits would certainly return for vengeance, if not for the treasures.
With a cry of dismay, Ralph sprang to the side of his friend, but the dacoits took fresh courage, and dashed at the defences in a body, like a dark wave pouring over a rocky shore.
They produce dacoits who perpetrate unspeakable barbarities on old men and women.
Dacoits were entrenched in the Kaung-hmu-daw Pagoda, not very far from Sagaing.
Most of the gangs consisted of dacoits pure and simple, whose sole object was plunder and rapine, who held the countryside in terror, and committed indescribable atrocities on their own people.
We were to hold a defile in the hills and cut off the retreat of the dacoits dislodged from Kaung-hmu-daw.
Once, at a military execution, some half a dozen dacoits were put up, one by one, against the city wall to be shot.
Though from time to time dacoits and robbers have become possessed of firearms, the thoroughness of the disarmament is proved by the inability of rebels in recent years to obtain guns and powder.
The police were there before us, and the dacoits had disappeared.
Dacoits themselves go to work with trembling knees and hearts of water, ready to fly at the first sign of resistance.
The invaluable power of removing to a distance friends and relatives of dacoits was unsparingly exercised.
They had, on arriving at their halting place, loaded; and, when the dacoits fell upon them, had opened fire.
In the case of the Thugs this was a pickaxe, but with the Dacoits it was an axe with a highly-tempered edge.
She issued such government arms as she had in the house, and the villagers went and pursued the dacoits by the cattle tracks, and next day they overtook them, and there was a fight.
The headquarters of these gangs of Dacoits were the Ghauts.
With that e' describes the hawful band ofdacoits wot set on 'im.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dacoits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
