The highwaymen who plotted this scheme doubtless belong to the rougher element of the strikers.
And it is hardly reasonable to suppose that this plot between the chauffeur and the two highwaymen was for the purpose of murder.
I believe you were held up by two masked highwaymen with guns in a lonely spot, as you say.
The latter, according to the plan outlined in his note discovered by "Johnny Two-Times," slowed down the machine before the highwaymen appeared.
If the two masked highwaymen had been crouching in position for a footrace to be started at the shot of a pistol, they could hardly have sprung forward more suddenly or have sped down the road more rapidly.
If he was for London, that he would friten the highwaymen on Hounslow Heath, and look a very genteel figar at the Chocolate House.
He would slay ten thousand highwaymen if they approached his mistress's coach.
The highwaymen turned, and two pistol-shots were fired at the new-comer.
The exciting adventures among highwaymen and privateers are sure to attract boys.
Another of the highwaymen fell under his next shot; at the same instant Turk, with a tremendous bound, leapt at the throat of one of the others who was in the act of levelling his pistol.
Indeed it is true; and what is more, Brandon, this fellow is one of the very identical highwaymenwho robbed me on my road from Bath.
It was always believed that the highwaymen did not know of this change, and thought the stage carried express as before.
Although the highwaymen were far from satisfied with the explanation they made the best of a bad matter, and began to search the driver to see what they could find.
He had, in fact, followed Borrow to Corunna, having been despitefully used at Compostella, met highwaymen on the road, and suffered hunger so that he slaughtered a stray kid and devoured it raw.
I was talking with a young man only a week before that dreadful day, and he said highwaymen are too generous to steal money from people like Mr. Cummins.
Mat Bailey had reported that nothing had been heard of the highwaymen "from that day to this.
They were taken from a pamphlet written by Wilson, who was one of the highwaymen therein alluded to, and saved his neck by informing.
Last week the Oxford Stage Coach was robbed between Uxbridge and London, by the samehighwaymen as is supposed who robbed the Bristol Mail, one of them having a scar on his forehead.
By the year 1830 the terror inspired by highwaymen had no doubt diminished, but the coach proprietors thought it prudent to guard themselves against loss, and so they put increased charges on the articles of value they had to carry.
At eight o'clock in the evening, two highwaymen attacked a gentleman in a coach on the south side of St Paul's churchyard, and robbed him.
The postboy was attacked by three highwaymen in Tyburn road, but the Duke of Chandos, happening to pass that way, came to his rescue.
What will my friends say, and what excuse can I make, when I tell them that highwaymen have broken into my house, and robbed me of all that they generously lent me?
The jeweller needed no more to be informed that they were the highwaymen who had broken up and plundered his house.
The stage had proceeded but two miles from Los Angeles when four masked highwaymen stepped into the road and ordered, "Hands up!
The following morning, while the inmates of the ranch-house were at breakfast, the highwaymen entered the room and held up the defenceless household.
Highwaymen who attack passengers with paths and imprecations.
Highwaymen who never rob any but rich persons, and that without ill treating them.
Five rum-padders are rubbed in the darkmans out of the whit, and are piked into the deuseaville; five highwaymen broke out of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country.
In the chaise Betsy gave Dick a circumstantial account of the attack made by the highwaymen--the highwaymen of Providence, Dick ventured to term them.
The highwaymen were excellent judges of cattle, he was bound to confess.
There is my guardian, who murmurs at my travelling about from county to county with only Jugurtha to drive me--as if Jugurtha couldn't protect me if there were any highwaymen or robbers.
I told her how the highwaymen had made a promise to me, and they had kept it; and I told her how I had made a promise to them, and I must keep it also.
I represented that the highwaymen had made me a solemn promise that no deed of personal cruelty should ever be committed in my presence, that on that condition only I was with them, and I called upon them to keep their promise.
I will try to beat off any highwaymen who may attack me, or gallop away from them," answered Roger.
Legends of Claude Duval and his fellow-highwaymen still haunt the woods and moors that top the long hill going northward.
Doctor Syntax bound to a Tree by Highwaymen July 1 " 8.
In the days when highwaymen infested the roads the guard had carried pistols, and still the guard of the mail wore a red coat, and blew a horn on entering any place to warn the people to bring out their post bags and exchange them for others.
The cushion behind lifted up and disclosed a long narrow recess called the swordcase, because, when there were highwaymen on the roads, people kept their weapons there.
It was then that he wrote lives of highwaymen and dissenting divines, and that he patched up any narratives which he could get hold of, and gave them the shape of authentic historical documents.
There is a 10 pound reward for discovery of highwaymen and burglars or persons who break and enter into houses and there use violence.
Robbery was endemic and some of the roads were so unsafe from highwaymen that bands of armed horsemen were hired to accompany the coaches.
Since the order to shoot all highwaymen as soon as taken was promulgated, brigandage has almost entirely disappeared in Mexico, though up to that time it was of daily occurrence in some parts of the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "highwaymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
