highwayman
IPA: hˈaɪweɪmʌn
noun
- (historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.
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Examples of "highwayman" in Sentences
- Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck.
- The word highwayman is first attested from the year 1017. [
- The highwayman is the inspiration for my victims in my newest book.
- Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants’ War.
- Give me a highwayman and I was full to the brim; a Jacobite would do, but the highwayman was my favourite dish.
- There was the whole town of Ohadi to testify that the highwayman was a big man, of the build of Harry, and that he spoke with a Cornish accent.
- A dozen or more were cut off in this way, and soon it came to be whispered about that Marot the highwayman was the man that did it, and the chase became hot at his heels. '
- But in our neighborhood a highwayman was a myth, -- we had hardly ever even heard of one; and so, after no end of misgivings lest one or another lion in the way should after all compel the relinquishment of the excursion, literally at the eleventh hour they were fairly on their way.
- Her chair had been stopped by a highway-man: the great oaf of a servant-man had fallen down on his knees armed as he was; and though there were thirty people in the next field working when the ruffian attacked her, not one of them would help her; but, on the contrary, wished the Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck.
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