highwayman

To borrow a word from the highwayman’s infamous greeting, “Nell” delivers.

“There are highwaymen in places like this. They might block the road to drive us toward them.”

He has gone on to establish regular, silly characters - a romantic poet, a highwayman with a hobbyhorse, and a running story that sends up the allure of the archetypal aloof hero.

In the 1960s, the highwaymen had plans to drive Interstate 95 straight through D.C.

Thieves and highwaymen also ply the same roads.