Which preposition to use with highwayman

in Occurrences 7%

" If Mrs. Spafford had said road agent, which means highwayman in California, we could not have been more surprised.

of Occurrences 4%

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.

to Occurrences 3%

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

for Occurrences 2%

Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a highwayman for a philosopher, and a philosopher for a highwayman.

on Occurrences 2%

"The devil they do!" responded Mrs. B., and that night the bearer of the precious burden was stopped by a highwayman on the Great North Road, and the ten thousand guineas were used to procure the return of the Whig candidate.

during Occurrences 1%

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.

at Occurrences 1%

'Colonel Berkeley,' he answered with assurance, and again saluted her. 'Who killed the highwayman at Hounslow last Christmas?'

after Occurrences 1%

Well, this god of love became the god of politics, and contrived meetings between Bute, Grenville, and Bedford; but, what happens to highwaymen after a robbery, happened to them before; they quarrelled about the division of the plunder, before they had made the captureand thus, when the last letters came away, the repeal was likely to pass in both houses, and tyranny once more despairs.

about Occurrences 1%

" "I didn't think there were highwaymen about here.

Which preposition to use with  highwayman