All 22 Uses of

brigand
in
The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."†
Chpt 22-23

"Don't you remember," said the patron, "I told you that among the crew there were two Corsican brigands?"†
Chpt 31-32 *

brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside

About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.†
Chpt 33-34

The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

—'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.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

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.†
Chpt 33-34

brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside

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.†
Chpt 37-38

"Why did you not tell me all this—you?" inquired the brigand chief, turning towards his men, who all retreated before his look.†
Chpt 37-38

The brigands had carried me off, and conducted me to a gloomy spot, called the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.†
Chpt 39-40

brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside

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.†
Chpt 39-40

Three brigands, called Trestaillon, Truphemy, and Graffan, publicly assassinated everybody whom they suspected of Bonapartism.†
Chpt 43-44

brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside

The one M. de Villefort is preparing against my amiable assassin—some brigand escaped from the gallows apparently.†
Chpt 85-86

"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."†
Chpt 97-98

"Yes, yes," he murmured, "I am in the hands of the brigands of whom Albert de Morcerf spoke."†
Chpt 115-116

brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside

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.†
Chpt 115-116

Definition:

an armed thief -- especially a member of a band that resides in the countryside