Brigandage

One of the redeeming features of the Munich tragedy (and I am not condemning it) and the present international lawlessness and brigandage is the change in the United States. ❋ Unknown (1939)

But whilst they would approve of this that you call brigandage, I also do not doubt that they would claim that the prizes I have seized are by right the property of the Convention, and they might compel me to surrender them. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

For the progress is noticeable only by comparison, and, without speaking of open wars, brigandage, which is dying out, is not yet quite extinct. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

In short, what foreigners call brigandage, which prevailed under the Turkish rule, has not, I am sorry to say, diminished under the Greek sovereignty. ❋ Unknown (1906)

That is brigandage, which is denounced by the laws of Sicily. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Though this kind of brigandage still survives, it is no longer common, especially in the neighbourhood of Poona, with its large police force. ❋ Edward Fenton Elwin (N/A)

But the greetings and the "brigandage" were soon over, and in good time they were all assembled in the Doyle flat, where the joyous Major had prepared an elaborate dinner to celebrate the return of the wanderers. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Last March I was standing near a rookery, noting the contention and quarrelling, the downright tyranny, and brigandage which is carried on there. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

The only good news, relatively speaking, is that this film suffers less from Lionsgate's "brigandage" (to use a term from the film) than the last one I reviewed, ❋ Unknown (2009)

"When God prohibits killing, he not only forbids us to commit brigandage, which is not allowed even by public laws, but he warns us not to do even those things which are legal among men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

David Lewis 1788-1820, who never met a Pennsylvania jail he couldn't break out of, started out as a counterfeiter before converting to brigandage on country highways, ultimately dying of wounds sustained in a shoot-out with a posse assembled to arrest him. ❋ Joseph Sternberg (2011)

They made their living through pastoralism, brigandage, and export of the few resources they had to offer, including pistachios and lapis lazuli—the Hindu Kush being the only known source for this precious blue stone in the ancient world. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Some of us have laundry to wash, some of us have hair to bind and cudgel, others will patch the family's hearth, and yet others will hollow sage registries so that past brigandage might be possible again in dream. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)