banditti

• These Hickory Point “Law and Order” militia were simply robber banditti, and Captain Harvey and his company thought they ought to be “cleaned out,” and proceeded to do so, and this act, though intrinsically it was a righteous act, yet technically, laid them open to the law. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
• In this hall of audience were assembled four or five ill-looking banditti, my comrades in instruction, who would rather have been taken for trusty servants of the devil than candidates for the kingdom of heaven. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
• But this schism in the legislature is considered as a mere contest of banditti, about the division of spoil, not calculated to excite an interest in those they have plundered and oppressed. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
• A common banditti, acting only from the desire of plunder, or men, erring only through ignorance, could not have subjugated an whole people, had they not been assisted by narrow-minded philosophers, who were eager to sacrifice their country to the vanity of making experiments, and were little solicitous whether their systems were good or bad, provided they were celebrated as the authors of them. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
• The place was infested with banditti, and robberies, accompanied by horrible murders, were of constant occurrence. —  The Life of George Borrow

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