What is "highwaymen"

Usage examples of "highwaymen".

These were not the romantic and reputedly chivalrous highwaymen of Britain's post roads in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

These new highwaymen were ruthless and evil men who lately had been choking the thin trickle of communications and trade between towns and villages.

Yet highwaymen rarely operated on unfrequented and therefore unprofitable roads, and had never been reported this close to Fort Repose.

The highwaymen killed off travel on the main highways and so now they've started on the little towns and the secondary roads.

Can you imagine anything more enticing to highwaymen than a grocery truck?

It was not impossible that the highwaymen were holed up in Pistolville, or had contacts there.

The penalty for robbery or pillage, or for harboring highwaymen, or for failure to make known information concerning their whereabouts or movements, is death by hanging.

So, if we can, we have to get those highwaymen and that's why I came to you, Rita.

I'm not going to put the truck on the road until late in the afternoon that's when the highwaymen took Dan-so there'll be time.

He wore the uniform not because of the wedding but because it was required in the radioed orders to reservists assuming active duty, such as ambushing and killing highwaymen, which he presently intended to do.

During the night highwaymen had raided the isolated home of Jim Hickey, the beekeeper, on the Pasco Creek Road.

From Dan's description of how the highwaymen had acted, Randy guessed that the fire fight, when it came, would be close in, and the shotguns of greater value than the rifles.

I'll bet you'd see highwaymen in uniforms if they got their hands on them.

The objective of the highwaymen was probably the car and the gas, Randy deduced, rather than honey.

If they stopped short of the bridge and jumped out to make their fight at a distance then the highwaymen could shoot and run.