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brigand
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A Game of Thrones
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- 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.†
p. 286.5brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- 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.†
p. 329.2
- 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.†
p. 334.5 *
- Chiggen stopped looting the corpses of the brigands long enough to snort and lick his lips.†
p. 335.9brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- 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.†
p. 411.7
- Brigands, Lord Varys?†
p. 463.4brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- Oh, they were brigands, beyond a doubt.†
p. 463.5
- Lannister brigands.†
p. 463.5
- "Well-mounted brigands," observed Littlefinger.†
p. 466.1
- Why should Ser Gregor turn brigand?†
p. 467.1
- 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.†
p. 468.7
- 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.†
p. 607.4brigands = armed thieves -- especially members of a band that reside in the countryside
- 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.†
p. 610.4
- Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand.†
p. 776.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(brigand) an armed thief -- especially a member of a band that resides in the countryside
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)