Sample Sentences forbrigand (auto-selected)
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They all went down to tea flushed and joyous as any mountain brigands. (source)brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
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We were afraid you had been captured by brigands. (source)
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Like a brigand after a skirmish, Emile slips his chopper under the tie of his apron and then looks expectantly at the door, which a moment later swings again.† (source)
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Tyrion danced back in while the brigand's leg was still pinned beneath his fallen mount, and buried the axe in the man's neck, just above the shoulder blades.† (source)
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But it was the Web authorities and brigands from whom we fled, no?† (source)
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She thinks we're brigands who are going to sell her for a slave.† (source)
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Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.† (source)
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It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor's greatest foe.† (source)
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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)
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Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.† (source)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to brigand means having the characteristics of a brigand. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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Dear Lady Marchmain, a Band of Brigands.† (source)
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He would have persevered in the enterprise if several members of the Academy of History had not convinced him that the legend of the shipwrecked galleon had been invented by some brigand of a viceroy to hide his theft of the treasures of the Crown.† (source)
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An episode of the brigandage of today and every day!† (source)
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The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.† (source)
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On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.† (source)
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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)
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