While I was in Leavenworth a man was hanged by the mob at Council Bluffs for asking the names of the Vigilants who had hanged a friend of his the year before.
A procession of Vigilants with drawn Colts was then formed, and set off in the moonlight across the four chief streets to the plaza.
Illustration: "Then the vigilants post themselves as a wall of defence about the building.
There was a meeting of the vigilants that night and Gerry Brown, Mr. Harris, Justice Summers and myself, were present with them.
The vigilants knew that the horses had been concealed near Trafton, but, owing to the manner in which the arrests were made, they do not know where.
Once more my pistols, this time fully loaded, are raised against a Trafton mob, and the vigilants follow my example.
When they understood that the outlaws had looked upon Bethel as a detective, and their natural enemy, the vigilants were ready to anticipate the rest of my story.
The vigilants bring out their horses from behind the brush fence, and the procession starts toward Trafton.
All the vigilants are heroes this morning, and proud and happy is the citizen who can adorn his breakfast table with one of the band.
The vigilants have all the advantage, both of numbers and organization.
It is ten o'clock when we separate; the vigilants going their way silently, and one at a time, and Jim and myself returning to the cottage together.
They used all their influence in her favor, and they had the vigilants and many of the best citizens to aid them.
Our vigilants have received a few bruises and scratches, but no wounds.
We are not poor men; the vigilants are all farmers who have something at stake.
But the cur weakened when the Vigilants started out to make war on any game a gen'leman might hev that wasn't in their gummy-bag, salt pork trade.
But that's all right, for you see she kin go back to their own house at the Mission, now that the Vigilants are givin' up shadderin' it.
Now he's dead, in course the Vigilants ain't got no proof agin Jim.
I must ride to Alpine tonight as there is to be a meeting of the Vigilants at eight o'clock and I want to be there.
The Vigilants are strong here to-night, and there'll be business if the fellows are caught.
He's all on the side of the honest workers, and one of them has only to denounce a man as a thief for the Vigilants to nail him at once.
When the crowd came up--after the vigilants came up the street--did the crowd say what they were going to do?
When the Vigilants come riding up the road and get in front of the house we will suddenly fire on them.
Then, at a word of command, the Vigilants turned their horses and cantered back towards Jasper.
Jasper is only two miles off, and the Vigilants will be riding over here before we have time to say Jack Robinson.
These Vigilants are as brave as they are reckless, and there are at least twenty-five or thirty of them.
Yet it would not be long before the Vigilants dashed up to the house.
The fact was that Hare made up his mind, logically enough, that the fugitives would keep along the Tennessee until morning came, and as he had seen the direction they had taken he determined to set the Vigilants on their track.
This Hare has sent his negro over to Jasper to bring the Vigilants here to take charge of us, and to string us up, no doubt, to the first convenient tree.
The Vigilants were about to follow the example of their leader, and dismount when there came a wheedling voice--apparently the voice of a negress--from within the cabin.
You have sent word to the Jasper Vigilants to ride over here and arrest us, on the suspicion of being spies.
It was plain, from what Watson could hear of the discussion which ensued, that the Vigilants were disgusted.
Perhaps the Vigilantsare on our track, bad luck to them!
Here he told the Vigilants that the three men had returned in the boat (which he had previously declared they had taken) and landed on the bank of the river.
One of the Vigilants said, in an injured tone: "I wish Jake Hare was at the bottom of the ocean!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigilants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
