What is "bushrangers"

Usage examples of "bushrangers".

Things are getting better - there are not so many bushrangers as there used to be.

What worried Jack were the occasional tales of the depredations of bushrangers, some of them almost gentlemanly in their concern for the welfare of ladies, others hard-bitten criminals escaped from the high security penitentiary at Port Arthur and Eaglehawk Neck in the south east.

Half starved and half crazed, these bushrangers were no respecters of men, property, laws - or women.

At that time the tracks to the goldfields were none too safe, for there were bushrangers at work.

For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace.

From Duval, in the seventeenth, down to the Mannings, Palmer, Arthur Orton, Morgan and Kelly, the bushrangers, in the nineteenth century, many a criminal, far less notable or individual than Charley Peace, finds his or her place in that great record of the past achievements of our countrymen.

Inveterate murderers, audacious burglars, bloodthirsty bushrangers, were the ruling triumvirate, the scour of old Europe, called Vandemonians, in this bullock-drivers' land.