(n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
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双语例句
Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
He rode like a highwayman. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.