To be sure and sartin I does," answered little Dummie, walking to the table where the robber sat.
But sometimes there came an avenger;--and the highway robber fell before the unexpected patriot; and the virgin was avenged by the yet beardless hero, for the wrong of her cruel seducer.
And a merry game did Wulnoth and his robber companions play, though alas, now of that fifty but half remained.
Then thou seekest a right jolly company," laughed the robber chief.
But to that Wulnoth made reply that this might not be since he had a task to do, and might not turn from it; and the robber asked him what his task might be.
It has been destroyed by robber tribes as often as there was anything worth destroying, and it has been so tossed to and fro between Turkey and Persia as not to have any of the special characteristics of either empire.
It has been unoccupied since its owner, Jan Mir, a sheikh of a robber tribe, and the terror of the surrounding neighbourhood, was made away with by the Persian Government.
If his disposition be considered, he would be a more fit emblem for a band of robbers--for a more absolute robber and tyrant does not exist among the feathered races.
The robber is often found in the same camp, and fighting under the same banner, with the soldier of Freedom.
He seemed resolved to hold on to his hard-earned plunder; or, at all events, not to yield it, without giving the more powerful robber the trouble of a chase.
On the fifth finger of the left hand she wore a strange, small old ring of an Etruscan pattern, which had been stripped from the fleshless hand of a princess, whose sanctuary had been rifled by some nineteenth-century robber of graves.
There's some one in the orchard, There's a robber in the apple-trees; Qui va la!
Do you know, Ferrol, you looked just then so like the robber last night that, for one moment, I half thought!
They looked far a-field, but high overhead therobber looked down on them.
The description being recognized as that of Simoun, the declaration was received as an absurdity and the robber subjected to all kinds of tortures, including the electric machine, for his impious blasphemy.
No, if the robber had been some one like me, he’d simply have put the envelope straight in his pocket and got away with it as fast as he could.
I’d rather every one thought me a robber and a murderer, I’d rather go to Siberia than that Katya should have the right to say that I deceived her and stole her money, and used her money to run away with Grushenka and begin a new life!
Old Sandy didn' have a plugged nickel to his name when he come 'ere, an' now the damn stomach-robber is rich.
What they called a robber (he said to those who tried him) he was, because he had taken spoil from the King's men.
The robberwas surprised, but took the boy in his arms, and faithfully restored him and his mother to their friends.
But therobber had a dagger underneath his cloak, and, in the scuffle, stabbed the King to death.
You may imagine what rough lives the kings of those times led, when one of them could struggle, half drunk, with a public robber in his own dining-hall, and be stabbed in presence of the company who ate and drank with him.
In a few seconds he had jumped over the fence to where his horse was standing, and without paying any attention to my shouts for him to "stop or drop that goose," the blue-coated robber put spurs to his steed and disappeared down the road.
And therefore the progress toward perfection of the publican Zaccheus, of the woman that was a sinner, and of the robber on the cross, implies a higher degree of life than the stagnant righteousness of the Pharisee.
He accused everybody of everything, and finally wound up by insisting that the craven Count Boni had hired some robber to steal the sword in hopes that the duel might not be fought.
And the relation of robber and robbed, which a man institutes between himself and me, is not this also sinful?
Finally, by originally vesting all men with dominion or ownership over property, God proclaimed the right of all to exercise it, and pronounced every man who takes it away a robber of the highest grade.
This was the Jordan, and the mountains beyond, the home of robber Arabs, were close at hand.
The dommed robberhas made fool of us'n," he cried savagely.
He's coming to tell us he means to take our little girl to his robber den.
But no robber came to disturb the brown house and at length even Gail and Faith drifted away to slumberland, in spite of this added trouble.
I should say it sounded like a plainrobber story," said Faith bitterly, while Gail sat white-faced and silent with despair.
Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more.
We played robbernow and then about a month, and then I resigned.
Is he one of your Borderers--your robber Castellanes?
The legs of the robber were thrown in a hole, The wolves got his bones, the devil his soul.
