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  • * The word Brigand (Robber) feems particularly applicable to R — t-y.

    The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third Charles Pigott 1793

  • Silence, gentlemen, if you please; it is a little piece from my opera of the 'Brigand's Bride.'

    Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Brigand gangs and religious devotees, sometimes in mobs of hundreds of armed men, raided villages, kidnapping and murdering from northern Luzon to Mindanao.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • « Ballade sur Pallide », Michèle Laframboise (Virages 44) « La révolte des gilets-malins », Michèle Laframboise (QUAD9 6A) « Le Dôme de Saint-Macaire », (Solaris 167) « Jos Montferrand et le Grand Brigand des routes », Alain Ducharme (Solaris 161)

    My novel Marseguro is an Aurora Award finalist! ewillett 2009

  • Brigand gangs and religious devotees, sometimes in mobs of hundreds of armed men, raided villages, kidnapping and murdering from northern Luzon to Mindanao.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • “The Boy Highwayman,” “The Boy Brigand,” “The Boy Pirate,” “The Boy King of the Outlaws,” &c., are modern inventions.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • “The Boy Highwayman,” “The Boy Brigand,” “The Boy Pirate,” “The Boy King of the Outlaws,” &c., are modern inventions.

    Genres and niche markets 2009

  • The next time some Fred screws up the paceline, I'm going to accuse him of being an Ottoman Brigand.

    The More Things Change...: Bicycles in the News BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • In a recent e-mail I received from N.E. Brigand (of The One Ring. net's discussion boards), he responded to a question I asked him by directing me to squire's account of how a non-academic navigated the shoals of academic research.

    Squire (and TORn)'s Academic Adventure Richard Nokes 2006

  • In this post at The One Ring, N.E. Brigand said that I commented that I write "papers at about 500 words per hour."

    Moi? 500 wds. per hour? Richard Nokes 2006

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