brigands

• As for the brigands, the leader with three others had escaped, and the faces of those captured were not known to the guard. —  The Car of Destiny
• "What do you think about it, Carmel I think I'm quite safe, for the brigands are generally very chivalrous to women, and only run away with gentlemen and chop off their fingers!" —  The Princess of the School
• To call them scoundrels is to flatter them: they are brigands, and the knifing, lounging rascals of Sicily and Calabria are mere children in villany compared with their English imitators. —  The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
• The presence of brigands was a matter of indifference to him. —  A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
• He managed to escape from the brigands, and on the road found the dead body of his employer, who was, he knew, that morning coming out to give him some instructions. —  A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden

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