How To Use highwayman In A Sentence
- He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
- As he took her to a tavern in York, Nance explained that she had left her lover, a married highwayman.
- The Highwayman's Case suffices as a colourful example.
- With his day's growth of stubble, short black hair and cockeyed smile he seemed more like a rogue or highwayman than magician.
- Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster.
- Harold Thomson's handkerchief showed the bullet hole and powder burns from the highwayman's gunshot.
- But at least there was one Border highwayman -- or is "footpad" here the more correct term? Stories of the Border Marches
- Her chair had been stopped by a highway-man: the great oaf of a servant-man had fallen down on his knees armed as he was; and though there were thirty people in the next field working when the ruffian attacked her, not one of them would help her; but, on the contrary, wished the Captain, as they called the highwayman, good luck. Barry Lyndon
- Give me a highwayman and I was full to the brim; a Jacobite would do, but the highwayman was my favourite dish. Memories and Portraits
- The word highwayman is first attested from the year 1017. [ GoodShit
