highwaymen in English

noun
1
a man, typically on horseback, who held up travelers at gunpoint in order to rob them.
Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster.
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1. Paul said that he often encountered “dangers from rivers” and “dangers from highwaymen.” —2 Corinthians 11:25-27.

2. One of the most picturesque of the old flintlock guns is the Blunderbuss, which was often carried by coach guards for protection against highwaymen

3. Ambush definition, an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in Ambush near the road

4. If you managed to elude the press-gang, the Bawds posing as helpful old dears in order to ensnare girls into brothels, the alcoholism, gambling, card sharps, pick-pockets, priggers, highwaymen

5. "Banditti" is a now obscure term for highwaymen who robbed travelers; the cattle barons of Wyoming and their imported Texas mercenaries would be better called terrorists today

6. ‘Messengers would travel by stagecoach armed with pistols and Blunderbusses, ready to shoot to kill any bandits or highwaymen.’ 2 An action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in …

7. Historically, many Brigands were simply criminals who banded together to rob people and plunder settlements in order to acquire loot, and these types of criminals included "highwaymen" (horse-riding highway robbers) and "footpads" (muggers)

8. Funks Antiquary is an exquisite gallery of fine art, jewelry, antiquities and collectibles with the finest collection in Central Florida! We are proud to present works by Picasso, Dali, Warhol, as well as an extensive collection of Highwaymen Art.

9. + 24 By Jews I five times received forty strokes+ less one, 25 three times I was beaten with rods,+ once I was stoned,+ three times I experienced shipwreck,+ a night and a day I have spent in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from highwaymen,+ in dangers from [my own] race,+ in dangers from the nations,+ in dangers in the city,+ in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers, 27 in labor and toil, in sleepless nights+ often, in hunger and thirst,+ in abstinence from food+ many times, in cold and nakedness.