A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.
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Examples for "highwayman"
Examples for "highwayman"
1The first difficulty was as to who the real highwayman could be.
2Walter began to think he had fallen in with a highwayman again.
3And folk said they highwayman wad skin the breeks aff a Hielandman.
4The last story of a highwayman happened almost literally to Mrs. Cavendish.
5Because of his infatuation for the girl he had become a highwayman.
1This Durban hijacker paid for his crime in the harshest way possible.
2One of the dates matches the birth date used by the hijacker.
3The hijacker then made the driver bring the vehicle to Monaghan town.
4As the hijacker, Travolta steps into the role originated by Robert Shaw.
5Sudan's aviation authority had also said the Libyans had arrested a Sudanese hijacker.
1When threatened by a highjacker, a flight attendant would transmit an EMD pulse at the terrorist, reducing him to a trembling mass of Jello.
2Highjacker was slow away and battled away for sixth when resuming at Newcastle October 5.
3You can count on highjackers leavin' yuh half your load; mebby a little more, if yuh set purty.
1I recovered from the road agent's bullet, but this, I fear, is fatal.
2The road agent waved his hand to the young lady.
3The road agent, apparently routed by these simple words, fled muttering toward his horse.
4They had been held up by a single road agent.
5The road agent was tugging at the stone beneath which he had slipped his bridle.
6I had four hundred dollars in my wallet, and the road agent made off with it.
7The road agent did not at once answer.
8No one ever fires at a road agent.
9And, besides, they don't know how many more men the road agent may have behind him.
10The road agent stooped over, not suspecting any danger, and in doing so laid down his revolver.
11Instantly the dude fired, and a bullet whistled within a few inches of the road agent's head.
12Desperado, murderer, train robber and road agent, he was a man beyond the pale of human pity.
13There was nothing in his speech or manner to suggest that he had ever been a road agent.
14He's heading out to Tucson to interview some shootist who tracked down a road agent out there last summer.
15A revolver is the last thing a road agent wants, either in a man's hand or in his holster.
16Melville was, perhaps, referring to the chance of the stage being stopped by some enterprising road agent, suggested Parker.
Translations for road agent