He regretted the loss of her cattle; he assured her that the vigilantes which had been organized would soon rout the rustlers; when that had been accomplished her riders would likely return to her.
He had to run the gantlet of vigilantes down the main street of Stone Bridge, leaving dead horses and dead rustlers behind.
If the riders prevailed he was safe enough, by reason of his charter membership, and none of his brother vigilantes suspected that his participation had been unwilling.
And so the Vigilantes went in and up along the lower ways.
So it was, that when the newly organized Vigilantes under Tharon Last came out in broad day and took back their own from Courtrey's herds, there was one at the Stronghold who laughed quietly to himself in sympathy with the defy.
Your Vigilantes here have opened up since we got them together and showed some of them your letter.
At Last's Holding theVigilantes stopped for rest and food.
She wondered what Courtrey meant by this strange quiet following the tragic moment at the Stronghold steps when the Vigilantes had challenged him and ridden away.
Then the Vigilantes were gone with jangle of spur and bit-chain, and he was the last to go, standing by Captain in the dim starlight.
Their backs were to the Vigilantes now, their faces to the centre.
During all the long day the Vigilantes lay in hiding, impatient at their idleness and wondering at the lack of effort made towards their discovery, not dreaming that McNamara had more cleverly hidden plans behind.
One by one the Vigilantes left, the blackness blotting them up an arm’s-length from the door, till at last the big, bleak warehouse echoed hollowly to the voice of the wind and water.
Helen questioned Struve at length, but gained nothing more than that secret-service men had been at work for weeks and had to-day unearthed the fact that Vigilantes had been formed.
If only the Vigilantes would be content with making an example--but he knew they would not.
The Vigilantes would rout them without question, for every citizen of the North would rally to their aid, and such men could not be stopped.
A scattered few of theVigilantes had been taken thus, while the warring elements had prevented their families from spreading the alarm or venturing out for succor.
Towards daylight the remnants of the Vigilantes straggled into the big blank warehouse on the sand-spit, and there beneath the smoking glare of lanterns cursed the name of McNamara.
The Vigilantes might still distrust him, and yet he owed them warning.
He always spoke of the Vigilantes in that way, because of his early Western training.
He felt that he was being ground between his loyalty to the Vigilantes and his own conscience.
Arriving at the end of the road, the Vigilantes debouched and went into the darkness of the cañon behind their leader, to whom the trails were familiar.
After lying in wait during the long night, certain that the Vigilantes would spring his trap, McNamara was astounded at news of the battle at the Midas and of Glenister’s success.
With daylight those two would return and walk unheeding into the trap, while if he bore the word to them first, then the Vigilantes would be jailed before dawn.
The vigilantes had almost cleared the country of scoundrels, but there remained three men who had long been suspected of cattle-killing and horse-stealing.
Scarce a score of thevigilantes remained, and most of them were looking for a chance to save their faces "without starting anything," as Jumbo put it later.
For a moment not a soul in the posse nor one of Dinsmore's watching vigilantes drew a breath.
At the words, across the silence the click of gunlocks was heard as the Vigilantes levelled their weapons at the crowd.
The vigilantes then searched for the keys to the cells, and at length found them between the bed and the mattress where the jailer was sleeping.
In conclusion, cattle thieves and evil-doers generally were warned to beware of their ways, and notified that the vigilantes were ever on their track.
The vigilantes have done their work and have departed.
Without loss of time thevigilantes attacked the padlocks on cells fourteen and twelve, the former being Woodruff's and the latter Seminole's.
As he passed the cells containing two burglars, they begged to be released, fearing lest the vigilantes would also make an example of them.
The action of the vigilantes was universally applauded in Georgetown; in fact, they were regarded as public benefactors.
While he was examining the bodies the coroner was hailed by the vigilantes with: "What are you doing?
In the meantime, a number of the vigilantes had attacked the iron-grated door with sledge hammers and crowbars.
During this prayer the vigilantes stood around, with hats removed and heads bowed, in reverential listening.
The vigilantes of the mining camps were to him an old story; more than once he had witnessed their work, been cognizant of their power.
I 've seen vigilantes turn loose before, and knew what was likely to happen!
A nice leader ofvigilantes you are, a fine representative of law and order, a lovely specimen of the free-born American citizen!
It is one of the very few first-hand accounts of the Vigilantes and it will bring the events of those days, with the great lessons that they teach, nearer to the young student of our history.
Mr. McConnell, who was first a captain of a band of Vigilantes before he was senator and then governor, gives in this book his own experiences in bringing the control of territorial affairs into the hands of law-abiding citizens.
In fact, it became so bad that the Vigilantes began to show their teeth, although they confined their sentences to banishment.
Three men of the Vigilantes did the dangerous work of arresting him, and took him by closing in on him as he stood in the street talking.
Once more the sober and law-loving men of California sent abroad word, and again the Vigilantes assembled.
The Vigilantes purged themselves of the false members, and carried their own title of opprobrium, the "stranglers," with unconcern or pride.
Plummer begged for life on any terms, asked the Vigilantes to cut off his ears and hands and tongue, anything to mark him and leave him helpless, but to leave him alive.
The Vigilantesnow organized with vigor and determination.
Books could be written, and have been written, on the days of terror in California, when the Vigilantes took the law into their own hands.
The people might withdraw authority when faithless servants used it to thwart justice--that was what the Vigilantes preached.
In turn criminals used the cloak of the Vigilantes to cover their own deeds of lawlessness and violence.
She loaded the Vigilantes with imprecations, and showed the most heartbroken grief.
What wonder the courts were weak; and what wonder the Vigilantes became strong!
At last the slumbering spirit of the Vigilantes began to awaken.
Self-government is our right as a people--that is what theVigilantes said.
The reign of the vigilantes was over, and citizens everywhere looked to the law for protection.
In the early afternoon Mr. Hunter, driving to town on business, had taken the otherVigilantes with him.
If you don't want the Vigilantes to be dead ashamed of you, here's your chance this minute!
So the founder of the Vigilantes was the only one left to guard the fortunes of the camp.
Her one thought was to notify the Vigilantes of her success.
The Vigilantes were in a new world as they listened--a world where the only capital necessary was ambition, enthusiasm, vigor!
The Vigilantes and Aunt Nan received as genuine a welcome a half hour later when they drove down the long avenue of cottonwoods to Virginia's home.
But in their superior dog wisdom they soon remembered that these young ladies were the friends who a few days before had made their mistress happy, and they gave the Vigilantes a royal welcome--both for Jean and for themselves.
She found the Vigilantes and Aunt Nan as interested as she herself, and willing to sacrifice her company for five days for the sake of Bear Canyon's rising generation.
Virginia had said that none was needed, and she did not notice the apprehensive glances which the other Vigilantes cast around the shadowy, half-lit room.
Now that it had come, he was off to saddle the horses, while the excited Vigilantes flew to get into their riding-clothes.
We are giving the incidents here as a historical curiosity, and as showing how men's minds were keyed up in those days of war and vigilantes to a high pitch.
The authorities there evidently knew their business, for these were the men who caused the Vigilantes to organize against them.
Two incidents prior to the formation of the Vigilantes indicate the uneasy condition induced by the presence of the soldiers at the fort and the considerable number of southern sympathizers in the community.
It was generally supposed for many years that the Vigilantes had passed upon Patterson's case and had appointed Donnehue to execute their sentence in the only way that could be done without loss of somebody else's life.
The Vigilantes ruled as a secret power behind the throne.
With the death of Patterson, and the close of the Civil war, and still more as a result of the beginnings of farming, it may be said that the era of the Vigilantes came to an end.
It appears at the same time that there was an anti-Vigilantes organization which took possession of another man who was in the habit of coming to town and getting "d.
In all places where italics occur, they are mine: After the execution of the five men on the 14th of January, the Vigilantes considered that their work was nearly ended.
The critters have seen us, and that are firework means that there aint no vigilantes round abeout.
The vigilantes must wear sharp spurs if they catch us.
Will you have one of your men arrest me or any other speaker who chooses to take the box, personally, and bring me to jail and put a charge against me, and protect me from the vigilantes who are beating the men on the street?
The vigilantes proceeded to beat me up on the jail steps.
He continued the insane attack, while McRae, awry-eyed and lusting for blood, assisted in the brutal task until warning cried from the other vigilantes showed them their mistake.
Hawes, proprietor of a scab printing and stationery company, member of the Commercial Club and citizen deputy, gave testimony similar to that of other vigilantes as to the trouble on November 5th.
They took me out of the jail and threw me into the bunch of vigilantes with clubs.
The vigilantes were clubbing women right and left, and a young girl, about eight years of age, had her head cut open by one of Sheriff McRae's Commercial Club tools.
During the month of October there were between three and four hundred deportations, the vigilantes operating mainly from the Commercial Club.
Vigilantes with torches made short work of the rest of it.
The vigilantes down town, though taking the alarm, had moved too slowly.
The vigilantes formed in the glare of the burning shops.
Emboldened by this success and driving the outlaws from their further retreats, the vigilantes fired one after another of the gaudy places that lined the upper street.
It was only for a moment that the vigilantes held their advantage.
The vigilantes began to try to save the jail and their efforts brought about the first clash of a night destined long to be remembered in Medicine Bend.
The vigilantes themselves, profiting by the momentary diversion, got away.
Rebstock, the fox, and his companion Seagrue escaped the exterminating raid of the vigilantes but fought shy of Medicine Bend for long afterward.
Fire that gun just once and the vigilantes will have a rope around your neck in five minutes.
The work of the vigilantes had been mercilessly thorough.
But the vigilanteswere intent first of all on capturing and burning the hall known as the Three Horses, and the rioters rallied to its defence.
In the next instant they were actively dodging his flashing club, and the vigilantes encouraged as if by an angel fought with fresh vigor.
The actual extermination of the Henry Plummer band occurred rather promptly when the Vigilantes once got under way.
As the Vigilantes regulated things in the mining camps, so now in slightly different fashion the new property owners on the upper range established their own ideas, their own sense of proportion as to law and order.
Brown was hanged; so was Yager; but Yager, before his death, made a full confession which put the Vigilantes in possession of information they had never yet been able to secure.
There was an instant improvement in the social life of Virginia City, Bannack, and the adjoining camps as soon as it was understood that the Vigilantes were afoot.
In the early days he saved Chamberlain from the vigilance committee by a plea to Judge Lynch when the vigilantes had a rope around the victim's throat.
It was the only instance on record in the county where the vigilantes gave way in such a case.
Monte Joe, a vicious, brutal ruffian, was himself in command and spoke through the slats of a blind, when the vigilantes stopped before the darkened building.
He had seen the vigilantes work before, and he knew that if he intended to save his own skin he must act quickly.
By this time the close formation of the vigilantes was broken.
Twenty of the men dismounted to enter the glittering doorway, while the remainder of the vigilantes waited on their horses.
A few fled, and are heard of now and then among the robbers of Portneuf Cañon; but under the sway of the Vigilanteslife and property in Virginia became safer than to-day in Boston.
The first courts were held in December, 1864, and the Vigilantes were the earliest to support their authority.
The quickness of their captors had foiled their attempts at escape or resistance, and their impotent rage at seeing every point guarded sternly by armed Vigilantes knew no bounds.
It was a citizens' trial, but the Vigilantes were the leading spirits.
José, here is Señor Hunter and his friend whom he stole away from the Vigilantes yesterday!
The Vigilantesare weeping for one so like themselves.
Your mine in the mountains--it will be foolish to return there while the hands of the Vigilantes are reaching out to clutch you; do you not think so?
José's head vaquero was in town when the Vigilantes returned with their Captain and those others, and there were many rumors.
There was a rumor that the Vigilantes were sending out parties to search for you when Carlos started home.
Tejon showed no disposition to stop, however; and Jack, bethinking him of the trick Dade had played upon the Vigilantes with his riata, threw off the loop that held it.
I heard of your brave deed, Señor--of how you rode into the midst of the Vigilantes and snatched your friend from under the very shadow of the oak.
You know, at any rate, that the Vigilantes took him out and hung him because they wanted to get rid of him, and that came the nearest to an excuse they could find.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigilantes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: constabulary; police; posse; trooper; vigilantes
