Their robberies were, for the most part, of a private nature, and committed on a small scale.
It is common knowledge that here gangs are formed and arrangements for robberies or other criminal acts made; here the spoils are divided; guns are hidden when officers come to search, and men beaten who make a "squeal.
That is part of their training, and the robberies they commit add many dollars to the incomes of the men who have put them in the business.
But there was a still worse form of co-partnership involved in the procedure adopted in robberies in houses of ill-fame.
The police, she said, were able to make robberies in what were known as panel houses, safe for the thief and profitable to themselves.
Ile Masse belonged to him, given by the French as an indemnity for the robberiesat Taahauku.
The necessity for assistance in this direction was impressed on Stayner by a number of robberies which took place on the grand route between Montreal and Toronto--episodes in post office economy which he was helpless to investigate.
Two of these robberies have incidents connected with them, which are deserving of mention.
Then we come to the affairs of Sicily--and the long list of robberies is commenced by which that province was made desolate.
The matter was of little importance in Rome, where murders and organized robberies of the kind were the common incidents of every-day life.
But not on this account should it be supposed that Cicero regarded the proscriptions of Sulla with favor, or that he was otherwise than shocked by the wholesale robberies for which the proscription paved the way.
The contributions to these newspapers which Mr. Lee has assigned, with great judgment it seems to me, to Defoe, range over a wide field of topics, from piracy and highway robberies to suicide and the Divinity of Christ.
Nothing, for instance, could surpass the boldness of Defoe's plan for directing public attention to his narrative of the robberiesand escapes of Jack Sheppard.
It is not intended here to detail their proceedings or to describe at much length the squabbles and constant disorders, murders, and robberies which took place while they held possession of the Island.
The quarter of the town in which he happened to be stationed was spared; whilst in the others, where nobody apprehended any evil, these robberies and murders claimed their richest victims.
But the most decisive fact is that since the time Olivier Brusson has been under arrest all these murders and robberies have ceased The streets are now as safe by night as they are by day.
For let me tell you that Cardillac was the most abandoned and hypocritical of villains, that it was he who committed those dreadful murders and robberies by night, and so long escaped all traps laid for him.
It was perhaps credulous of us, as our hotel was liberally labelled with notices warning its patrons that "Owing to numerous robberies in this hotel, our guests will please lock their doors.
The fact that we complained to the police about one of the twentyrobberies struck the commandant as an act of surprising and unusual interest.
The taxes imposed by the king were simply robberies and confiscations.
England, large grants in this country, and perhaps a fine English knight for a husband, when you might have all for the trifling service of giving up a traitor to his liege lord, and confessing where his robberies lie concealed?
I rifled your barns, but it was to feed a people whom hisrobberies had left to perish!
That what ever Robberies they had committed, they might be pretty sure they were not the greatest Villains then living in the World.
There have been three robberies in all," said the colonel, "and they have been exactly alike.
She several times declared to Colonel Richmond that she did not wish her daughter to get the jewels in such a way, and that she was still convinced that human beings had planned and executed the whole strange series of robberies and surprises.
Judge Lorrimer begged to be of the party in order to see the explanation of the mysterious robberies of which he had heard.
You have not explained the robberiesat my house," said Colonel Richmond.
They seemed to be explaining the robberies to a new driver of a groceryman's wagon, for they had one of his arms apiece, and were pointing to the window.
There was only one way into this room when those robberies were committed, and the parrot was the only living thing in the house that was small enough to go through that pipe and intelligent enough to do the trick.
He managed the robberiesat the house with the aid of John Gilder and one or two of that spiritualistic gang whom he smuggled into the house.
He might be so much of a lunatic as to commit these robberiesfrom simple delusion.
It will be observed that Gilnockie puts forward as his claim to respect the very robberiesin England for which, says the poet, he was hanged.
Robberies coincided with the admission of the two young men into the house.
You know what a lot of robberies there have been in the neighbourhood lately; there may be rough characters about.
He actually talked about the robberies in the neighbourhood.
It was generally said in Rieka that the Italians in four days had given away six million crowns' worth, that large quantities of flour were removed until the British put a stop to this, and that the robberies were flagrant.
It was very lonesome--there were several robberies in the neighborhood--and Nanny and Lizzie and Mazie sleep so far away from my rooms.
In Iowa alone there had been no fewer than thirteen robberies without a single arrest up to the date of the Greenville Bank case, which I am about to set forth.
The fall of the year 1901 was remarkable for the number of bank robberies occurring in the States of Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
The news of the robberies created a profound sensation throughout Putnam Hall, and both Captain Putnam and George Strong were very much disturbed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robberies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
