All 12 Uses of
brigand
in
War and Peace
- "They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the visitor.†
Chpt 1 *brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- They ought to be hanged—the brigands!†
Chpt 10
- "They've brought us all to ruin...the brigands!" he repeated, and descended the porch steps.†
Chpt 10
- "I'll show them; I'll give it to them, the brigands!" said he to himself.†
Chpt 10
- Brigands!†
Chpt 10
- Brigand!†
Chpt 11
- "Those brigands are everywhere," replied an officer from behind the fire.†
Chpt 14brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- Brigand!†
Chpt 14
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- And they defeated the genius Napoleon and, suddenly recognizing him as a brigand, sent him to the island of St. Helena.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
an armed thief -- especially a member of a band that resides in the countryside