highwayman

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The Highwayman is based on accounts of Dick Turpin and John Nevison and their exploits in the Yorkshire region.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024

But an essential one, his 86-year-old Highwaymen bandmate Kris Kristofferson, made it to the stage to join Rosanne Cash, the daughter of another Highwayman: Johnny Cash.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2023

The Highwayman, which she said she wrote about one-time beau Don Henley, is “about what a woman in rock’n’roll has to do to keep up with the men”, she once said.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2019

But his latest book, Child of a Mad God, is the first in a new series set in Corona — the same world as his The DemonWars Saga and The Highwayman novels.

From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2018

With slow and funereal steps, the Curate, Miss Grace, "h'Adam," the Highwayman, and the "venomous and voluptuous liar," Chartress, approached to weep over it.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie