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  • noun Plural form of highwayman.

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Examples

  • In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat.

    GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward 2008

  • Now, as you know that nothing is perfect here below, we heard there was a sort of people whom they called highwaymen, waybeaters, and makers of inroads in roads; and that the poor ways were sadly afraid of them, and shunned them as you do robbers.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Now, as you know that nothing is perfect here below, we heard there was a sort of people whom they called highwaymen, waybeaters, and makers of inroads in roads; and that the poor ways were sadly afraid of them, and shunned them as you do robbers.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And that fact has, in large measure, swept highwaymen from the roads and pirates from the seas.

    Sir Norman Angell - Nobel Lecture 1933

  • Now, as you know that nothing is perfect here below, we heard there was a sort of people whom they called highwaymen, waybeaters, and makers of inroads in roads; and that the poor ways were sadly afraid of them, and shunned them as you do robbers.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • We had expected, with reason, that the so-called highwaymen, having retreated to a certain distance, would there pause and very possibly lunch before returning.

    Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Each chapter deals with a particular aspect of crime, such as highwaymen or hit men, drugs, prisons, and so forth.

    June 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • Each chapter deals with a particular aspect of crime, such as highwaymen or hit men, drugs, prisons, and so forth.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • Each chapter deals with a particular aspect of crime, such as highwaymen or hit men, drugs, prisons, and so forth.

    London's Underworld Michael Allen 2004

  • From Frank Young these "highwaymen" took 200 dollars in money.

    Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957

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