The learned judge was in the course of summing up the case to the jury, when he stated that a few years before, a prisoner was on his trial before him, upon a charge of highway robbery.
Singly, they robbed hen-roosts and old market-women; in bands their courage rose to highway robbery on a larger scale, and even to murder.
He says, that he told him he would as soon engage in a highway robbery, as in such a transaction; and then immediately he told him, that though he would not himself, he could find somebody else who would engage in that dirty office.
That which the plundered party loses in highway robbery is gained by the robber.
Observe, that if highway robbery presents some difficulties of execution, it has also certain advantages which are not found in the tariff robbery.
The Justices of the Peace usually deferred to the learned Justices of Assize for cases of felony, murder, rape, highway robbery, and witchcraft.
There was speculation in insurance for all types of occurrences, such as housebreaking, highway robbery, death by gin-drinking, and horses becoming disabled.
So long distance payments no longer had to be made in coin, with all the dangers of highway robbery.
What the victim of a highway robbery loses, the thief gains, and the articles stolen remain in the country.
Remark also, that if highway robbery presents some inconveniences in its actual perpetration, it has likewise some advantages which we do not find in robbery by tariff.
Upon this is endorsed an order that if the mayor or recorder will certify that Throckmorton was not convicted of murder, burglary, highway robbery, rape, or witchcraft, a warrant may be made for his banishment.
Knights of the road have already begun to operate; they have already the brevet rank of captain, and even lads of tender years are beguiled into adopting the profession of highway robbery.
Many instances are recorded of another crime somewhat akin to highway robbery.
Murder, burglary, highway robbery, and gross theft were punishable by hanging.
He will be tried at the Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago.
But there were boys convicted of highway robbery, like Joseph Wood and Thomas Underwood, one fourteen and the other twelve, both of whom were hanged.
It was an artful attempt to claim restitution from a certain locality for a highway robbery said to have been committed within its boundaries: a robbery which had never occurred.
It was the same in cases of highway robbery, murder, or riot.
Sir John Fielding was undoubtedly the originator of the horse patrol, which was found a most useful check on highway robbery.
Still, these belligerent relations were taken as a matter of course; and no disgrace, in the modern sense, attached to the occupation of highway robbery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "highway robbery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
