What is "robbers"

Usage examples of "robbers".

All I have to do is infiltrate a gang of Indian grave robbers and halt the flow of Anasazi artifacts out of this country.

Fool, I, Rob, do rob and have robbed greater robbers that I might by robbery live to rob like robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

I saw robbers in a bad year once rush into the gate of the great house and the slaves and the concubines and even the Old Mistress herself ran hither and thither and each had a treasure that she thrust into some secret place already planned.

Now Oswald said that about the cat, and it made it easier to go down, but in his inside he did not feel at all sure that it might not be robbers after all.

Now these things, the red beard and the red length of cloth were sign and symbol of a band of robbers who lived and marauded toward the northwest, and many houses had they burned and women they had carried away, and good farmers they had bound with ropes to the threshold of their own houses and men found them there next day, raving mad if they lived and burnt and crisp as roasted meat if they were dead.

But the robbers never came to his house and he grew careless and bold and he believed he was protected by heaven and that he was a man of good fortune by destiny, and he grew heedless of everything, even of incense of the gods, since they were good enough to him without, and he thought of nothing except of his own affairs and of his land.

There would surely come a bad year, moreover, and even the town could not withstand robbers, as it had not in the past when the great house fell.

It was more likely that he would be beaten for his unfilial conduct rather than his uncle suffer, and in the end he would go in fear of his life, for if the robbers heard of it, they would kill him for revenge.

But still he knew very well that even this could not have saved him in these times of robbers and lawlessness if it had not been for his uncle.

But your uncle is lord of a horde of wild robbers, and if I feed him and coddle him we are safe, and no one can show anger toward them.

I would not, for if the other robbers heard of it what should we do, and if he lives we are safe, and if he is gone we are become as other people who have a little and so are in danger in such times as these.

That means that the looters are far more organized and entrenched than just a few grave robbers skulking around deserted Indian ruins.

The two robbers were still talking to the clerk, but I blocked out their voices so I could concentrate on reaching the door.

A wholehearted tire-slashing was proof someone had been out here while the robbers were inside.

The robbers had come up into the higher area where the clerk stood, and they were beating on him.