He entered the house, and saw that the robbers had taken all the furniture out of the apartment where he received Schemselnihar and her lover, that they had also carried off the gold and silver plate, and, in a word, had left nothing.
Schemselnihar and the jeweller had no farther conversation; they let the robbers conduit them with the prince to the river's side, when the robbers immediately took boat, and carried them over to the opposite bank.
Would to God the robbers had taken away my life, rather than have preserved it; my misfortunes would then have had an end, whereas I live but to increase my sufferings.
However, instead of murdering us, as I expected, two of the robbers were ordered to take care of us, whilst their companions were busied in packing up the goods they found in the house.
While the prince, Schemselnihar, and the jeweller were landing, they heard the noise of the horse patrol coming towards them, just as the boat had conveyed the robbers back.
The jeweller needed no more to inform him that he spoke to the robbers who had broken into and plundered his house.
You must know, when I first saw the robbers enter, sword in hand, I considered it as the last moment of our lives.
The jeweller was brought next morning, who thinking to oblige us, as he really did, declared to the robbers the whole truth.
The robbers were greatly astonished at all the particulars they heard, and could not forbear exclaiming, "How!
What will my friends say, and what excuse can I make when I shall tell them that the robbers have broken into my house, and robbed me of all they had generously lent me?
The jeweller being encouraged by this assurance, and overjoyed to hear that the prince of Persia and Schemselnihar were safe, resolved to engage the robbers yet farther in their interest.
We shouted to them that we were ambassadors to the King of India, but this was of no service to us, for it appeared that these men were robbers and recognised no king.
I was one of them, though I was wounded; and so closely were the robbers occupied with the treasure upon the horses, that they did not pursue.
Several men were killed, but the robbers at length were obliged to fly.
I daresay, my dear count, but you know' it is my business to suppose robbers everywhere.
There are no robbers at St. Angelo, and if there were they would not dare to come here.
The robbers sat round the fire, sang and drank; and the old female robber jumped about so, that it was quite dreadful for Gerda to see her.
The Chronicles say that "thieves and robbers were in dread of him, and that things dropped on the highway were not picked up.
The high constable had to arrest insurgents, assassins, and robberswherever he found them, and to muster the soldiers for service in the Kyoto guards.
Fortunately the Vizier, always a reticent and prudent man, had not mentioned the Caliph, and he now ordered the company to return to their guard-house, merely remarking that the robbers had for this time escaped him.
The homage of these inveterate robbersraised Sargon in his own eyes and in those of his subjects.
He started, clutched his staff, and turned sharply about, thinking that the robbers had seen him and returned.
Robbers and hostile tribes are like the sand about Bashra," added Kanana, who had often heard of the countries along the eastern borders of Arabia.
I am well served by fellows who, scared by a shadow, run scampering about the woods, and leave the deer to the mercy of caitiffs and common robbers the whilst.
These robbers and these beggars controlled two worlds.
Compare him with all the Christian emperors--with all the robbers and murderers and thieves--the parricides and fratricides and matricides that ever wore the imperial purple on the banks of the Tiber or the shores of the Bosphorus.
When it suits the Government to enlist rebels or robbers in its service it condones their misdeeds, and confers on them rank and honour.
The husbandman must pay these robbers a charge, else as soon as his crop is ripe it is plundered, and the whole field laid bare.
Only a rectification of frontier by inclusion of a sterile region inhabited by robbers and infested by tigers, where no mandarin could make a living, fit only for a penal settlement, with a rugged sea-coast where no Chinese sail was ever seen.
The inhabitants of the villages and hamlets fear these robbersas they would tigers, and do not offer them any resistance.
It was so dark--the moon of the early night having been clouded over--that the direction taken by the robbers had not been ascertained.
Who the robbers were, and how many there were in the gang that attempted to force the safe at Diamond X, were matters left to further enlightenment.
Robbers might have taken them, the marks on the window-sill were suggestive, but I was doubtful on this point.
Even ifrobbers had entered the room, how was Mr. Ratcliffe's death to be accounted for?
What made these misfortunes heavier to them was a long, expensive war the colony had had with the natives, which was but just ended when these robbers infested them.
It has chloroformed poverty with promises of heaven, while the robbershave plundered the world.
The journey was a very severe one, full of peril to his mules fromrobbers and dangerous roads, and not without risk to himself.
Oh, I imagine the robbers took much more interest in the letters than in the effects of the painter, and Count Schwarzenberg and yourself both well know their contents.
It was either robbers or evil spirits who made such a noise and talked and laughed so loud.
No robbers and murderers come here, and in our castle you need not be afraid.
Aunt Hollandine, and no robbers have taken her away from me, and no murderers have killed her.
The incursions ofrobbers in the confines of Circassia afford the means of supplying the seraglio, even in times of peace.
Rasselas, in the first heat of his resentment, ordered his servants to follow him, and prepared to pursue the robbers with his sabre in his hand.
I was in the hands of robbers and savages, and had no reason to suppose that their pity was more than their justice, or that they would forbear the gratification of any ardour of desire, or caprice of cruelty.
He thought the place more likely to be infested by robbers than by those infernal agents who are reported to molest and bewilder travellers.
They confederated for their mutual defence; and the robbers of the Alps, who had been allured by the garb of a pilgrim, were often chastised by the arm of a warrior.
The naked robbersof the desert were suddenly enriched beyond the measure of their hope or knowledge.
But falsehood is the natural antagonist of violence; and the robbers were defrauded both in the numbers of the assessment and the standard of the metal.
And the robbers pulled off their hats and ran headlong in the night.
Even as I looked on from a distance, I saw one of the robbersbreak the windows of the adjoining store, a place where shoes were sold, and deliberately set fire to it.
He said they were killing the robbers and looters on sight, and that they had thus banded together as the only-means by which to escape the prowlers.
Returning to the corner, I found the two robbers were gone.
They believed that their efforts to run the pine robbers to cover had been successful, and that now they could boldly and openly take their stand on the side of the patriots.
For my part I think Fenton and Davenport and the rest of the pine robbers have the easiest time of all.
The full sense of the danger of entering a region, known to be used by the pine robbers as their headquarters, was appreciated as it had not been when they started.
I'm told some of the pine robbers are hiding in these woods.
There was a brief lull in the outrages and attacks of the pine robbers after the death of Fenton, but it was very brief.
The pine robbers tried to break the door down with some fence rails, but when that failed, they fired a volley of bullets right through the door.
One ball broke the leg of the old man, but still they wouldn't let the pine robbers in.
Despite the terrible warning, the other bands of pine robberssoon renewed their labors, and now in the early summer of '78 the region was suffering more from the marauding bands than ever had been known before.
But the army will be here shortly now, and there may be a chance to give these pinerobbers a dose then.
The pine robbers have their quarters down here, I'm told, and I thought I'd tell Captain Dennis about it and perhaps he would send out a party to search for him.
The note of a wood-thrush now and again broke in upon the stillness with its clear, sweet whistle, and the watchful men would glance quickly about them, almost thinking that the sound was the call of the pine robbers to one another.
Perhaps Ted's feelings were only natural when he had discovered the pine robbers in their cruel act.
It might be the answer of other bands of pine robbers to the volley which had just been fired; and hurriedly throwing the body of Fenton into the wagon, the sergeant turned his horses about and started swiftly back up the road.
That was mean of Ted to treat you as he did when you said the pine robbers made you go with them.
None but robbers or lovers want to walk at night, when they ought to be sleeping.
Under the leadership of the latter we continued the contest till the morning, when the robbers retreated, with loss.
In the confident assurances of their own piety, how many of these robbers were already dreaming of their sweet rewards in Paradise!
In the vicinity, several small graves are visible, the last resting-places of poor travellers, who in different parts of the desert have perished from the hands of robbers or from the fury of the elements.
The robbers had sailed in a vessel up beyond Karatepe, under the pretence of purchasing a cargo from the village of the Persians.
The robbers went up each in his turn to examine his share.
As the robbers resolutely refused to let their prize go, I thought that now the rest of the Turkomans, who run common risk from the Russians, would compel their countrymen to give way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
