What is "banditry"

Usage examples of "banditry".

There was more waiting to banditry than Cathan had thought, and his restlessness grew to anxiety, even with the training at arms his fellows gave him.

This weeks message was nothing unusual, to the Kingpriests disappointment The banditry in the hills continued, the robbers sacking occasional caravans that dared to break the ban he had placed on trade with the Taoli.

South Ibra, banditry in the provinces, bad weather closing down the high passes unseasonably early.

They had sent letters of excuse claiming poor crops, banditry, plague, evil weather, and cheating tax gatherers.

In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.

With cotton, wool, wheat and mountains rich in minerals, Shensi should have been prosperous but was not, owing to opium-smoking and banditry, but fundamentally to lack of good communications.

Hence, he had no need to turn and watch Steven escort the last missing member of unique bayou banditry into the stable.

Looking at the crew the bent man had assembled, he thought that if he himself were going in for banditry he could probably not expect to do much better.

Was there more unrest, more muttering in the cities and banditry in the countryside?

The invasion of the Infernal plane had come as the rudest shock of all, and now this bothersome banditry, forcing his hand to acts of repression before he was ready to introduce them.

Man will cure the clap and fly to the moon before he ever gets the banditry out of politics.

Plague themselves, and most of the thus-sobered or outright terrified folk either returned to the land or took to the woodlands and wastes to live by banditry and poaching of the unhunted and rapidly proliferating game beasts.

For the present, the accusation against you is that you committed an act of armed banditry, lying in wait for two police officers, firing shots from ambush, gravely wounding Inspector Bianchi, whom I may tell you is still between life and death in hospital, and slightly wounding Inspector Castang here present.

West African hellhole of Sierra Leone, years of civil war and barbarism had left the once-rich former British colony a vista of chaos, banditry, filth, disease, poverty and hacked-off limbs.

What scratchers did was a mix of scavenging and banditry, whatever worked, whatever they had to do to stay alive as they moved around the outskirts of the cities.