What is "brigandage"

Usage examples of "brigandage".

OTHER DOINGS OF THE NIGHT During the same night in all parts of Paris acts of brigandage took place.

The accomplices of this act of brigandage are most agreeable men--Romieu, Morny.

But in large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and even electrical blackouts, looting and brigandage can break out on a scale that goes far beyond what any police department can handle.

In this nadir of civilization, this wide- craving for the savage and the stark, this night of spirit, there rose to power the basest and hitherto t despised of human types, the hooligan and the gun-man, who recognized no values but personal dominance, whose vengeful aim was to trample the civilization that spurned them, and to rule for brigandage alone a new gangster society.

They still desired a disorderly world so that they could continue to practise brigandage of one kind or another.

At the same time it would be going much too far to say that the absence of an efficient police is the sole cause of brigandage in countries not subject to foreign invasion, or where the state is not very feeble.

Then and there it was that brigandage has flourished, and has been difficult to extirpate.

In all the administration has been bad, the law and its officers have been regarded as dangers, if not as deliberate enemies, so that they have found little native help, and, what is not the least important cause of the persistence of brigandage, there have generally been local potentates who found it to their interest to protect the brigand.

Scotland, and the helplessness of the peasantry, made brigandage chronic, and the same conditions obtained in Sicily.

The Bourbon dynasty reduced brigandage very much, and secured order on the main high-roads.

Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out.

Black Death was, of course, a shrunken population, which, owing to wars, brigandage, and recurrence of the plague, declined even further by the end of the 14th century.

Landowners impoverished by these factors sank out of sight or let castles and manors decay while they entered the military brigandage that was to be the curse of the following decades.

In truce and war he passed back and forth from brigandage to service under the crown without missing a beat or changing his style.

Finding mercenary employment combined with brigandage profitable, they spread, attracting into their ranks those who quickly relapse into lawlessness when the social contract breaks down.