Whether the German would come in is really a question for the German to consider; he can come in as a good European, he cannot come in as an imperialist brigand.

Euphrasie was lucky enough to die, and that brigand Alfred disappeared, which was real relief, I assure you; for I feared that I should be seeing him at the galleys.

where writhe and crawl, and pair and breed every baseness, every indignity, every abomination: filibusters, buccaneers, swearers of oaths, Signers of the Cross, spies, swindlers, butchers, executioners, from the brigand who vends his sword, to the Jesuit who sells his God second-hand!

"Why does not some brigand chief, with a good connection, convert his business into a properly registered joint-stock company?"

I.The Brigand and His Business I am no coward; still, I have some regard for my life.

" Then, over a bottle of Santorin wine, Christodulos related the story of the great brigand chief.

Have you heard of Hæmus, the famous Thracian brigand?

The van and its team of lean cattle were soon lost to view, and the landlord was left alone on his doorstep, shaking his fist and muttering "Brigand!" XXIV.

I have never been a good climber at any time, but it is astonishing what you can do, even with a stiff ankle, when you have a copper-coloured brigand at each elbow and a nine-inch blade within touch of your whiskers.

Between them there was sitting at a rude table a very singular-looking person, whom I saw instantly, from the respect with which the others addressed him, could be none other than the brigand chief who had received, on account of his dreadful character, the sinister name of El Cuchillo.

I have seldom seen any man who was less like my idea of a brigand, and especially of a brigand with such a reputation that in a land of cruelty he had earned so dark a nickname.

I have seldom seen any man who was less like my idea of a brigand, and especially of a brigand with such a reputation that in a land of cruelty he had earned so dark a nickname.

'But my prisoner?' said the brigand, in his suave voice.

He is a dark, strange-looking manstrong and largeof the brigand stamp, with fine eyes and lowering browsblunt and sarcastic in his manners, with a kind of misanthropical frankness, which seems based upon utter contempt for his fellow-creatures and a surly truthfulness which is more rudeness than honesty.

When Dion'idês, a pirate, was brought before Alexander, he exclaimed, "Vile brigand!

Because I have only one ship, I am called a brigand, but you who have a whole fleet are termed a conqueror."

Black George, Greorge Petrowitsch of Servia, a brigand; called by the Turks Kara George, from the terror he inspired.

The Turkish garrison attacked, but was heavily defeated at Valtetzi by the tactical skill of Theodore Kolokotrónis the 'klepht', who had become experienced in guerrilla warfare through his alternate professions of brigand and gendarmea career that had increased its possibilities as the Ottoman system decayed.

BRIGAND, m., celui qui exerce le brigandage, qui vole à main armée sur les grands chemins.

He described one fellow to me, a fierce brigand with a high black hat of feathers, a soiled Cossack coat and tall dirty red leather boots; his eyes were fires, Henry said.

This tale of the long-limbed German student, enveloped in the smoke from his porcelain pipe as he recounts a series of impossible adventures,those of himself and two Englishwomen, captured for ransom by Hadgi Stavros, brigand king in the Grecian mountains,is especially characteristic of About in the humorous atmosphere of every situation.

"Is that all?" demanded the brigand.

"You must have a watch," said the brigand: "put it with the rest.

The brigand opened it with the eagerness of a custom-house officer.

" The fact was too true to be denied, for the brigand tine was again under all her canvas, before the ship had sensibly profited by her superior physical force.