1 The poacher, like the smuggler, smacks too strongly of the brigand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 2 He had guarded the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into a brigand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 3 Instantly afterwards four carbineers, on horseback, appeared on the edge of the wood; three of them appeared to be looking for the fugitive, while the fourth dragged a brigand prisoner by the neck.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 4 And they defeated the genius Napoleon and, suddenly recognizing him as a brigand, sent him to the island of St. Helena.
5 About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 6 The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 7 That astonishment ceased when one of the brigands remarked to his comrades that Cucumetto was stationed ten paces in Carlini's rear when he fell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 8 Three brigands, called Trestaillon, Truphemy, and Graffan, publicly assassinated everybody whom they suspected of Bonapartism.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 9 "They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the visitor.
10 "Those brigands are everywhere," replied an officer from behind the fire.
11 On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.