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  • "If you approach this brigand's house surrounded by soldiers, Mubarek will promise you anything, then reverse course as quickly as the guns are gone," Parvi said.†   (source)
  • The companions looked up as the nightmare ship glided by, its deck populated with the worst sort of brigands and scoundrels—including Wendigo—all too surprised that the ship was still there to sling spears and fire arrows.†   (source)
  • Treats for brigands and wolves.†   (source)
  • These lands are dangerous: full of foul rebels and brigands.†   (source)
  • I counted three—a half dozen men of dubious character, brigands with eyes devoid of all conscience.... I see I am not the only one gifted with imagination.†   (source)
  • As it turned out it was Chapter Eight she wanted, a report of the author's own encounter with the Trystero brigands.†   (source)
  • From some firsthand reports I've heard, I believe that he has used guided missiles against warships sent after his brigands.†   (source)
  • In the old days such men turned from soldiers into brigands.†   (source)
  • When he shaded his eyes, the brand "H.T." on his thumb thrust itself into his own vision, and he looked at the bird with the whole plan of the Mystic Rebellion darting from him as if in rays of the bright reflected light, and he stood looking proudly, leader as he was bound to become of the slaves, the brigands and outcasts of the entire Natchez country, with plans, dates, maps burning like a brand into his brain, and he saw himself proudly in a moment of prophecy going down rank after rank of successively bowing slaves to unroll and flaunt an awesome great picture of the Devil colored on a banner.†   (source)
  • "I almost hesitated, though," replied the sailor; "you looked more like a brigand than an honest man, with your beard six inches, and your hair a foot long."   (source)
  • "Well-mounted brigands," observed Littlefinger.†   (source)
  • You are quite certain these were more than brigands?†   (source)
  • The rest of the mountain brigands did a better job of guarding their faces, but Tyrion had no doubts that they were full as much in awe.†   (source)
  • Oh, they were brigands, beyond a doubt.†   (source)
  • He surveyed his ragged band of brigands: near three hundred Stone Crows, Moon Brothers, Black Ears, and Burned Men, and those just the seed of the army he hoped to grow.†   (source)
  • Lannister brigands.†   (source)
  • Brigands, Lord Varys?†   (source)
  • Chiggen stopped looting the corpses of the brigands long enough to snort and lick his lips.†   (source)
  • And how do you mean to get me past all these wolves and brigands and Karstarks?†   (source)
  • The shadowcats would make a morsel of him, and the clans that dwelt in the mountain fastnesses were brigands and murderers who bowed to no law but the sword.†   (source)
  • Shadowcats prowled those passes, rock slides were common, and the mountain clans were lawless brigands, descending from the heights to rob and kill and melting away like snow whenever the knights rode out from the Vale in search of them.†   (source)
  • They were probably just men who had decided to help protect their homes from Urgals, pirates, brigands...We weren't going to lift a finger against them.†   (source)
  • You will not appease him with the offer of two hoary old brigands and the second son of the fattest man in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs?†   (source)
  • He may have feared his litter would make too tempting a target for brigands, or that it would prove too cumbersome in the high passes of the Boneway.†   (source)
  • As if this were the kingswood and it was the old Brotherhood I was going to face, not the lightning lord's sorry lot of brigands.†   (source)
  • What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among their dogs?†   (source)
  • The leader of the brigands, after collecting the mail sacks, had pulled Blobb from the coach and addressed him in perfect English: "Messer, you have witnessed the wrath of Trystero.†   (source)
  • And beyond their often-foul odor, they have an unmistakable air of the brigand," Maraini wrote.†   (source)
  • Must we have you chained hand and foot like a common brigand?†   (source)
  • It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor's greatest foe.†   (source)
  • But it was no orc-chieftain or brigand that led the assault upon Gondor.†   (source)
  • Why, any brigand of the hills can show as good a following!†   (source)
  • Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand.†   (source)
  • Why should Ser Gregor turn brigand?†   (source)
  • If indeed he'd sent Ser Gregor to burn and pillage—and Ned did not doubt that he had—he'd taken care to see that he rode under cover of night, without banners, in the guise of a common brigand.†   (source)
  • He huddled beneath the thin blanket that was his only bedding, staring out at a blaze of empty blue sky and distant mountains that seemed to go on forever, wishing he still had the shadowskin cloak he'd won from Marillion at dice, after the singer had stolen it off the body of that brigand chief.†   (source)
  • He's a brigand, nothing more.†   (source)
  • The day I need military counsel from a Lysene brigand is the day I put off my crown and take the black.†   (source)
  • There's no power in brigand's blood.†   (source)
  • I like an honest brigand.†   (source)
  • I wonder whether the nickname Nightingale, for the brigand son of Odikmantii, in the well-known Russian folk epic, is not a metaphor based on similarity of sound.†   (source)
  • He jerked his great cloak more heavily upon him by an impatient movement of one shoulder, and growled, 'To the devil with this Brigand of a Sun that never shines in here!'†   (source)
  • And now, a sudden twist and stoppage of the carriage inspired Mr Dorrit with the mistrust that the brigand moment was come for twisting him into a ditch and robbing him; until, letting down the glass again and looking out, he perceived himself assailed by nothing worse than a funeral procession, which came mechanically chaunting by, with an indistinct show of dirty vestments, lurid torches, swinging censers, and a great cross borne before a priest.†   (source)
  • Dear Lady Marchmain, a Band of Brigands.†   (source)
  • I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.†   (source)
  • On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.†   (source)
  • [Tavy comes to the steps, Tanner whispers loudly to him] Violet has married a financier of brigands†   (source)
  • But are your brigands any less honest than ordinary citizens?†   (source)
  • A cat may look at a king; and even a President of brigands may look at your sister.†   (source)
  • The Brigands disperse into groups lazily.†   (source)
  • I've introduced him to Mendoza, Limited; and left the two brigands together to talk it out.†   (source)
  • The Brigands drop into their former places.†   (source)
  • Straker whistles his favorite air, which falls on the ears of the brigands like a funeral march.†   (source)
  • An irrepressible grin runs from face to face among the brigands.†   (source)
  • "They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the visitor.†   (source)
  • Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.†   (source)
  • All who served B-u-o-naparte were brigands!†   (source)
  • "Those brigands are everywhere," replied an officer from behind the fire.†   (source)
  • The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.†   (source)
  • "They've brought us all to ruin...the brigands!" he repeated, and descended the porch steps.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes," he murmured, "I am in the hands of the brigands of whom Albert de Morcerf spoke."†   (source)
  • "I'll show them; I'll give it to them, the brigands!" said he to himself.†   (source)
  • let us draw lots!' cried all the brigands, when they saw the chief.†   (source)
  • If I had fallen seriously ill, if I had been captured by brigands, convinced that my father's understanding with the supreme powers was too complete, that his letters of introduction to the Almighty were too irresistible for my illness or captivity to turn out anything but vain illusions, in which there was no danger actually threatening me, I should have awaited with perfect composure the inevitable hour of my return to comfortable realities, of my deliverance from bondage or restoration to health.†   (source)
  • Until a movement shows itself capable of spreading among brigands, it can never hope for a political majority.†   (source)
  • The officer in command steps down from the road in to the amphitheatre; looks hard at the brigands; and then inquiringly at Tanner.†   (source)
  • The brigands, struggling with an over-whelming impulse to hide behind one another, look as unconcerned as they can.†   (source)
  • [The brigands come running back scared]†   (source)
  • THE GENUINELY ENGLISH BRIGANDS.†   (source)
  • Mendoza descends, passing behind the fire and coming forward, whilst Tanner and Straker, in their motoring goggles, leather coats, and caps, are led in from the road by brigands.†   (source)
  • The complete reality comes back with a rush: in a moment it is full morning in the Sierra; and the brigands are scrambling to their feet and making for the road as the goatherd runs down from the hill, warning them of the approach of another motor.†   (source)
  • Friends and fellow brigands.†   (source)
  • Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep.†   (source)
  • "Don't you remember," said the patron, "I told you that among the crew there were two Corsican brigands?"†   (source)
  • The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.†   (source)
  • But the brigands, Monseigneur?†   (source)
  • Ideas, if you like, are fermenting," he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, "and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands.†   (source)
  • The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.†   (source)
  • I, monseigneur, knowing that dueling is prohibited—I seized a bench, and gave one of those brigands such a blow that I believe his shoulder is broken.†   (source)
  • That is a trade which one can always adopt when one is a vagabond, and it's better than stealing, as some young brigands of my acquaintance advised me to do.†   (source)
  • He is the son of one of those brigands of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes.†   (source)
  • with their booty, all the drones of the social order; a lying hospital where the bohemian, the disfrocked monk, the ruined scholar, the ne'er-do-wells of all nations, Spaniards, Italians, Germans,—of all religions, Jews, Christians, Mahometans, idolaters, covered with painted sores, beggars by day, were transformed by night into brigands; an immense dressing-room, in a word, where, at that epoch, the actors of that eternal comedy, which theft, prostitution, and murder play upon the pavements of Paris, dressed and undressed.†   (source)
  • At the sight of that long beam, in the half-light which the infrequent torches of the brigands spread over the Place, thus borne by that crowd of men who dashed it at a run against the church, one would have thought that he beheld a monstrous beast with a thousand feet attacking with lowered head the giant of stone.†   (source)
  • Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,— we are not speaking of the present,—dragged all this behind them, so that in the special language they are called "stragglers.†   (source)
  • Crime, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the maillotins in the fourteenth century, the tire-laine of the fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's illuminated in the seventeenth, the chauffeurs [brigands] in the eighteenth.†   (source)
  • Three brigands, called Trestaillon, Truphemy, and Graffan, publicly assassinated everybody whom they suspected of Bonapartism.†   (source)
  • They ought to be hanged—the brigands!†   (source)
  • Brigands!†   (source)
  • The brigands had carried me off, and conducted me to a gloomy spot, called the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.†   (source)
  • About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.†   (source)
  • That astonishment ceased when one of the brigands remarked to his comrades that Cucumetto was stationed ten paces in Carlini's rear when he fell.†   (source)
  • The two brigands looked at each other for a moment—the one with a smile of lasciviousness on his lips, the other with the pallor of death on his brow.†   (source)
  • —'Well done, Carlini!' cried the brigands; 'that is acting like a good fellow;' and they all formed a circle round the fire, while Diavolaccio disappeared.†   (source)
  • Around him, and in groups, according to their fancy, lying in their mantles, or with their backs against a sort of stone bench, which went all round the columbarium, were to be seen twenty brigands or more, each having his carbine within reach.†   (source)
  • One fact more than the rest brought his friend "Sinbad the Sailor" back to his recollection, and that was the mysterious sort of intimacy that seemed to exist between the brigands and the sailors; and Pastrini's account of Vampa's having found refuge on board the vessels of smugglers and fishermen, reminded Franz of the two Corsican bandits he had found supping so amicably with the crew of the little yacht, which had even deviated from its course and touched at Porto-Vecchio for the sole purpose of landing them.†   (source)
  • She must have taken it almost from under her father's nose (it was a small store and he was his own clerk and from any point in it he could see any other point) with that amoral boldness, that affinity for brigandage of women, but more likely, or so I would like to think, by some subterfuge of such bald and desperate transparence concocted by innocence that its very simplicity fooled him.†   (source)
  • Good God, though we did play the brigand we might at least emulate the illustrious and spare pretty women.†   (source)
  • The hardships of the journey would be perfectly appalling, apart from the risk of brigandage or even treachery among their own escorting party.†   (source)
  • It would be a brigand when it grew up.†   (source)
  • He had already bought for himself a small house two miles in the country, and his surrey and his matched team stood before the porch waiting while he too stood, his hat tilted back and his legs apart—a hale, bluff, rednosed man with the moustache of a brigand chief—while the son, and the daughter-in-law whom he had never seen before, came up the path from the gate.†   (source)
  • I was a soldier, though you might not have thought it; I had command of troops operating against brigand tribes in the year 1855.†   (source)
  • the Yankee army, Father said, only he was not a soldier and knew that he would either be killed or die of hardship and so not be present on that day when the South would realise that it was now paying the price for having erected its economic edifice not on the rock of stern morality but on the shifting sands of opportunism and moral brigandage.†   (source)
  • An episode of the brigandage of today and every day!†   (source)
  • He was too far away for her to distinguish his features, but he reminded her of an Italian brigand.†   (source)
  • He was delighted with himself: he looked every inch a brigand.†   (source)
  • Yes, only to be stopped by a lovesick brigand and run down like a truant schoolboy.†   (source)
  • [Posing loftily] I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich†   (source)
  • It does not matter: each brigand thinks himself scum, and likes to hear the others called dregs.†   (source)
  • Revolt and brigandage belong not to the outfit of Apollo.†   (source)
  • He was this same "brigand of the Loire."†   (source)
  • There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Valjean!†   (source)
  • He was called "poor child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire."†   (source)
  • The poacher, like the smuggler, smacks too strongly of the brigand.†   (source)
  • He had guarded the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into a brigand.†   (source)
  • "Peppino," said the brigand chief, "give me the torch."†   (source)
  • SECOND POET: Eight bleeding brigand carcasses strew the pavements there—all slit open with sword-gashes!†   (source)
  • But I am well aware that the ordinary man—even the ordinary brigand, who can scarcely be called an ordinary man [Hear, hear!]†   (source)
  • I am a brigand, an outcast.†   (source)
  • The theft of the brigand-poetaster from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is deliberate; and the metamorphosis of Leporello into Enry Straker, motor engineer and New Man, is an intentional dramatic sketch for the contemporary embryo of Mr H. G. Wells's anticipation of the efficient engineering class which will, he hopes, finally sweep the jabberers out of the way of civilization.†   (source)
  • Brigandage is abnormal.†   (source)
  • If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels.†   (source)
  • The Cour des Miracles was, in fact, merely a dram-shop; but a brigand's dram-shop, reddened quite as much with blood as with wine.†   (source)
  • The cardinal sets a spy upon a gentleman, has his letters stolen from him by means of a traitor, a brigand, a rascal-has, with the help of this spy and thanks to this correspondence, Chalais's throat cut, under the stupid pretext that he wanted to kill the king and marry Monsieur to the queen!†   (source)
  • So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear.†   (source)
  • The old scaffolding of feudal jurisdictions remained standing; an immense aggregation of bailiwicks and seignories crossing each other all over the city, interfering with each other, entangled in one another, enmeshing each other, trespassing on each other; a useless thicket of watches, sub-watches and counter-watches, over which, with armed force, passed brigandage, rapine, and sedition.†   (source)
  • And they defeated the genius Napoleon and, suddenly recognizing him as a brigand, sent him to the island of St. Helena.†   (source)
  • Deprived of power and authority, his crimes and his craft exposed, he should have appeared to them what he appeared ten years previously and one year later—an outlawed brigand.†   (source)
  • The Allies defeated Napoleon, entered Paris, forced Napoleon to abdicate, and sent him to the island of Elba, not depriving him of the title of Emperor and showing him every respect, though five years before and one year later they all regarded him as an outlaw and a brigand.†   (source)
  • The man who ten years before and a year later was considered an outlawed brigand is sent to an island two days' sail from France, which for some reason is presented to him as his dominion, and guards are given to him and millions of money are paid him.†   (source)
  • He was the "brigand of the Loire."†   (source)
  • Brigand!†   (source)
  • This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of his family.†   (source)
  • Brigand!†   (source)
  • His father had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in his power to this Thenardier, and for four years Marius had cherished no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thenardier!†   (source)
  • END OF THE BRIGAND.†   (source)
  • "Why did you not tell me all this—you?" inquired the brigand chief, turning towards his men, who all retreated before his look.†   (source)
  • All civilized peoples offer this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass.†   (source)
  • The one M. de Villefort is preparing against my amiable assassin—some brigand escaped from the gallows apparently.†   (source)
  • They knew full well that this fugitive must be a bandit; but there is an innate sympathy between the Roman brigand and the Roman peasant and the latter is always ready to aid the former.†   (source)
  • Instantly afterwards four carbineers, on horseback, appeared on the edge of the wood; three of them appeared to be looking for the fugitive, while the fourth dragged a brigand prisoner by the neck.†   (source)
  • "I almost hesitated, though," replied the sailor; "you looked more like a brigand than an honest man, with your beard six inches, and your hair a foot long."†   (source)
  • Cucumetto was a cunning fiend, and had assumed the form of a brigand instead of a serpent, and this look from Teresa showed to him that she was a worthy daughter of Eve, and he returned to the forest, pausing several times on his way, under the pretext of saluting his protectors.†   (source)
  • "Well, my boys," said the brigadier, "the brigand must really have escaped early this morning; but we will send to the Villers-Coterets and Noyon roads, and search the forest, when we shall catch him, no doubt."†   (source)
  • He had noticed that a few rays, not of daylight, but from a lamp, penetrated through the ill-joined planks of the door; he approached just as the brigand was refreshing himself with a mouthful of brandy, which, owing to the leathern bottle containing it, sent forth an odor which was extremely unpleasant to Danglars.†   (source)
  • What I know is, that, like a fool, a greater fool than he of whom I spoke just now, I mistook for this peasant girl a young bandit of fifteen or sixteen, with a beardless chin and slim waist, and who, just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Caesar's 'Commentaries,' and who deigned to leave off reading to inform me, that unless the next morning, before six o'clock, four thousand piastres were paid into his account at his banker's, at a quarter past six I should have ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,
    Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint
    of bayonets,
    I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the
    smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
    Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every
    sight of fear,
    The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!†   (source)
  • "Do you believe," said Candide, "that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?"†   (source)
  • His masters called out not to lay on so hard and to leave him alone, but the muleteers blood was up, and he did not care to drop the game until he had vented the rest of his wrath, and gathering up the remaining fragments of the lance he finished with a discharge upon the unhappy victim, who all through the storm of sticks that rained on him never ceased threatening heaven, and earth, and the brigands, for such they seemed to him.†   (source)
  • The American is no longer a [Pg076] "vain, egotistical, insolent, rodomontade sort of fellow"; America is no longer the "brigand confederation" of the /Foreign Quarterly/ or "the loathsome creature, ...maimed and lame, full of sores and ulcers" of Dickens; but the Americanism is yet regarded with a bilious eye, and pounced upon viciously when found.†   (source)
  • Here they heard a loud noise in the chamber, and Don Quixote shouting out, "Stand, thief, brigand, villain; now I have got thee, and thy scimitar shall not avail thee!"†   (source)
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