brigandess

Not unlike that gigantic Chinese brigandess who half-killed me on the road to Nanking, but civilised, you understand, and willing to chat afterwards, in a frank, easy way which you'd not have expected from her lofty style and figurehead.

Watershed 2010

Not unlike that gigantic Chinese brigandess who half-killed me on the road to Nanking, but civilised, you understand, and willing to chat afterwards, in a frank, easy way which you'd not have expected from her lofty style and figurehead.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

The rest of the scene the Boss never would fill in just as it came off the bat, but I managed to piece out that the brigandess, sizing us up for a couple of pikers, reckoned that we wouldn't pan out much cash, and that the Boss might be used some rough by the gang.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

Day was comin ', red and sudden, and we saw who it was on the rock -- the lady brigandess.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

Seems that she'd found out, the lady brigandess had, that the old man's gang had run across a bricked-up passageway down in one corner of the basement, a kind of All-Goods-Must-Be-Delivered-Here gate that had been thrown into the discards.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

The prima donna girl, it seems, was a lady brigandess, daughter of the heavy villain that led the bunch.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

I does a sprint, too, and was just about to practise a little Eleventh Avenue jiu-jitsu on whoever it was -- when flip goes a piece of black lace, and there was the lady brigandess, some out of breath, but still in the game.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

Why, mother has always looked upon Sara as a-- e--- a sort of brigandess, the kind that steals children and holds them for ransom.

The Hollow of Her Hand George Barr McCutcheon 1897

The Tibetan female, whether she be a lady, a shepherdess, or a brigandess, cannot be said to be prepossessing.

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The Tibetan female, whether she be a lady, a shepherdess, or a brigandess, cannot be said to be prepossessing.

An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894