He hoped to reach Brassington by the bridle path before the footpads were astir, thence at dawn on to Wirksworth.
The latter was a monarch on the Heath: he would have kept footpads at bay, watched and guarded the coach, and seen it, mayhap, safely as far as Wirksworth.
We can't be far from Brassington now, and no footpads would dare to attack two lusty fellows on horseback, with pistols showing in their belts!
Beau Brocade never touches the poor or the peasantry, and certainly would never suspect Jock Miggs of being in your Honour's confidence, whilst the ordinary footpads would take no count of him.
Yet I may as I myghte Menske thee with giftes, And mayntene thi manhode Moore than thow knowest.
The footpads had scores to settle with the great Rozel.
When the Seigneur of Rozel fell from his horse, overslung with sack, the night of the royal duke's visit, and the footpads were on him, I carried him on my back to the lodge of Rozel Manor.
An unhallowed dusk was creeping over the landscape—an unhallowed dusk that made travellers imagine footpads lurking behind the thorn-bushes or the furze.
And if you will take the road with me, I shall be more easy in my mind as to footpads and fleas.
Horsemen in the open country, footpads in or near towns, laid wayfarers under contribution.
All this part of the way is greatly infested at night by lurking footpads from the choice purlieus of Seven Dials and Soho.
She had little enough to lose in the way of money or valuables, and it was "bogles," more than the fear of footpads that disturbed her mind as she stumped along that muddy road in the gathering gloom.
When the Seigneur of Rozel fell from his horse, overslung with sack, the night of the royal Duke's visit, and the footpads were on him, I carried him on my back to the lodge of Rozel Manor.
Nor were thieves and footpadswanting in the streets or highwaymen upon the roads, especially in the lonelier parts near the marshes between Rome and the Bay of Naples.
On the high road you might travel from Jerusalem to Rome, and from Rome to Cologne or Cadiz, with no fear of any enemy except such banditti and footpads as the central or local government could not always manage to put down.
Two Footpads Two Footpads sat at their grog in a roadside resort, comparing the evening's adventures.
The footpads waited for revellers who had taken too much liquor and were zig-zagging their unsteady way home, before they dared attack.
Two convivial fellows drinking there had been watched by two footpads named William Brown and Joseph Witlock.
For good reason, there being footpads and robbers everywhere.
The boldness with which street robberies still continued to be committed was evinced so late as 1777, when the Neapolitan ambassador was robbed in his coach in Grosvenor Square by four footpads armed with pistols.
The crew he had engaged himself in were the most notorious and the most cruel footpads which for many years had infested the road.
They had not gone far when they saw the footpadsreturn and carry off their wounded companions.
Mabel had been so agitated by the attack of the footpads that she had been unable to speak.
Here I remained until it was very nearly as dark as pitch; and the house being full of footpads and cutthroats, I thought it right to leave them.
The lanes and fields between Charing Cross and the village of Kensington, are, or were at that time, more than reasonably infested with footpads and with highwaymen.
Nor did revellers or footpads treat the old man, civilly, but tied him to the wall, where he was constrained to stay till a kind passerby released him.
Then, as if some wild panic had suddenly seized upon them, both footpads and citizens ran scattering away!
The discomfitedfootpads had returned upon a new tack.
Five minutes more, and these footpads would have overpowered me.
Mr. Isaac Walton, it is true, was a considerable rambler a century earlier than this, and in his Derbyshire hills must have passed many lonely gullies; but footpads were more likely to ambush the main roads.
I had heard of this as a picturesque and old-fashioned territory, comparatively free from footpads and lying near such places as Astoria and Hell Gate.
While here he had fallen in with footpadswho had sought to rob him.
Those footpads told me he was in a hotel in the neighborhood.
Jerry told his story, and the upshot of the matter was that the two footpads were held for another hearing before the judge in the morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footpads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
