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highway robber
noun as in larcenist
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noun as in pilferer
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noun as in purloiner
noun as in stealer
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noun as in thief
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Example Sentences
The English writer, comedian and TV host is a highway robber in 1735 in the zany Apple TV+ series, playing a gentle soul in the harsh world of forest-based stick-ups, witches and curses.
While other cities fell to these forces, Tabriz resisted, and a leader emerged: Sattar Khan, a former highway robber who had transformed into a principled freedom fighter.
November 6th Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield In 1788, a woman named Alice Payne helps pay off her father’s debts by becoming a highway robber known as the Holy Ghost, aided by her lover, Jane, and an automaton named Laverna.
The Senate of Pennsylvania say, for want of room, the young associate with the old offenders; the petty thief becomes the pupil of the highway robber; the beardless boy listens with delight to the well told tale of daring exploits, and hair breadth escapes of hoary headed villany, and from the experience of age, derives instruction, which fits him to be a terror and a pest to society.
Then his mother laugh’d, and laughing answer’d, “Thou, my son, dost talk a little wildly; For, indeed, a brother have I given thee; Long before thy birth Predrag had being: Only yesterday the sad news reach’d me, That he is become a highway robber, In the verdant forest Garevitza, Where he is the leader of the bandits.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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