I was offered instead a work in two volumes on the notorious highwaymen of history, and for a moment my plot swerved in that direction.

The highwaymen the .

Only slaves and highwaymen are crucified.

To these was added a collection of highwaymen and free-booters, from Syria, and the province of Cilicia, and the adjacent countries.

These pillagers are in fact highwaymen or privateershaving no laws, and acting from the impulses of their own fierce hearts.

and might not their value satisfy the greed of the highwaymen?

The highwaymen waited awhile and then assailed the door with heavy blows.

The history of regular robbers and highwaymen during this long period is more difficult to describe; it contains only disconnected anecdotes of a more or less interesting character.

Here they encountered several fugitives from the great city, and, as they approached Hounslow, learned from other wayfarers that a band of highwaymen, by whom the heath was infested, had become more than usually daring since the outbreak of the pestilence, and claimed a heavy tax from all travellers.

This was bad news to Leonard, who became apprehensive for the safety of the bag of gold given to Nizza by the enthusiast, and he would have taken another road if it had been practicable; but as there was no alternative except to proceed, he put all the money he had about him into a leathern purse, trusting that the highwaymen, if they attacked them, would be content with this booty.

By this time the highwaymen had come up.

His track lay along the old Fossway, a road infested in those days by murderous highwaymen; yet, unarmed and unattended, unknown and unappreciated, did that mighty man of genius set cheerfully out on his long and solitary way.

At a time when every main road in England was beset by highwaymen, travellers by sea were not likely to escape unmolested.

Thaxted Highwaymen, 391.

Archer hands the deeds and property taken from the highwaymen to sir Charles Freeman, who takes his sister, Mrs. Sullen, under his charge again.

"A very extraordinary Affair happen'd at the County Gaol in Hertford, where four Highwaymen, very stout lusty Fellows, viz.

People still living have seen the skeletons of pirates and highwaymen hanging in chains.

Highwaymen infested the suburban roads, and not seldom plied their calling in the capital itself.

First, that less than two hundred years ago, England had its highwaymen on all roads, and its smuggler dens and caravans, Scotland its caterans, and Ireland its moonlighters.

TWICKENHAM, Boswell and Johnson's drive to it, ii. 361-4; Cambridge's, Mr., villa, ii. 361; highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1; society, ii. 120.

315; Highland regiment in Jersey, v. 142, n. 2; highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1; Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2; History of the House of Yvery, iv.

This is no new thing, though the struggle against it, the combination of the forces of reform and blackmail, of dreamers and highwaymen, is offering some new phases.

" [Footnote 1: Highwaymen.]

I wondered whether or not the business of outlawry was not specialized, so that some stole horses, others robbed banks, others were highwaymen, and the like.

We took this for a good omen of our successful journey, having escaped a danger which might have been greater to us than it was to our servants; for the highwaymen in France do not always give a traveller the civility of bidding him stand and deliver his money, but frequently fire on him first, and then take his money.