Both Uses of
brigand
in
Don Quixote
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3-4brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- 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!"†
Chpt 1.35-36 *
Definition:
an armed thief -- especially a member of a band that resides in the countryside