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n. (road agent English)
Usage examples of "road agents".
The maroons were feared even more than mestizo road agents because they were not only bigger and stronger but had suffered more abuse than half-castes.
Had the road agents had more numbers, Jimmy was certain the youths would have been killed, but the men had fled at the sound of approaching riders, which turned into a small patrol from the garrison at Questors View.
Neither of them knew the first thing about such daring episodes, but Pearl had read the exploits of such road agents as Black Bart, Rattlesnake Dick, Canada Bill, Tiburcio Vasquez, the Fartington Brothers, the James Gang and many others--not all of them known stage robbers, but then who was to say that they had not tried their hand at the game at one time or another.
Then he had happened onto a trail familiar to Teza and began to head toward an old oak well known by local road agents for its low-hanging branches and dense foliage.
Just some old boys who keep an eye out for road agents, cow thieves, and such.
Because I've been twenty years in the service, and am such a nat'ral born mule that when the company strokes my back and sez, 'You're the on'y mule we kin trust, Bill,' I starts up and goes out as a blasted wooden figgerhead for road agents to lay fur and practice on, it don't follow that YOU'VE any call to go.
The little I have on that one says the road agents were masked, and Rusty Mansfield was neither well known in these parts or alone.