brigand
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This brigand may not be as wily as he thinks he is, but Leone loved him enough to let him survive the famous shootout and still be hanging around, so to speak, at the end.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2014
In contrast to Francis Wheen's raucous account of Marx's life as hack, brigand and rapscallion, Sperber places the history of ideas at the heart of his study.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
What links Robert’s brigand tableau to most of the work around it is its landscape setting.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013
When he was but a baby brigand in the employ of the University of Pittsburgh, Calipari's recruiting tactics very nearly incited a general hooley at the Big East's annual meeting.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2010
It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing brigand
The Joy Luck Club
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The Shakespeare Stealer
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 6
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