highway robber

collocation in English

meaningsofhighwayandrobber

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highway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/us
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or ...
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robber
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrɒb.ər/us
/ˈrɑː.bɚ/
someone ...
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(Definition ofhighwayandrobberfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The ability of thehighwayrobberis merely an ability to cause fear.
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As the figure of thehighwayrobberreceived further elaboration over the course of the early modern period, his links with genteel status were restored.
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It is only when he has no money that a man becomes ahighwayrobber.
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Nobody would be ahighwayrobberif he had plenty of money.
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He started his criminal career as a juvenilehighwayrobber, rustling cattle and sheep.
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The chemical was a success, and it was so popular that highway robbers would try to steal it.
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Leah inquired about the elder son, and the people said that he was a wicked man, ahighwayrobber.
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He was ahighwayrobberwho became a legendary figure as a great highwayman, and he would use pseudonyms to stay in the company of gentlemen.
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The members of the consortium, these latter-day highway robbers, are charging £2.35 for this service.
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My constituents, too, see the bus companies as latter-day highway robbers.
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Very many ordinary people have suffered at the hands of cowboy wheelclampers who, with their clamp-and-deliver tactics, have been described as modern-day highway robbers.
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After all a union is not a band of highway robbers sharing out the loot, but an organisation to secure a measure of justice for all.
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Looking back to the time when footpads and highway robbers were a nuisance in our own country, one recalls that they were deprived of the protection of the law.
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This hotel was a popular haunt for highway robbers and smugglers.
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In their own country nothing but highway robbers and skilful hunters, wearing clothes mostly of leaves.
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Seltsam reveals that the miracle preserving liquid is mainly composed of brain liquid and that the highway robbers were all his henchmen.
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It was also useful to protect themselves and their properties when people travelled to far-off palaces and highway robbers used to loot them.
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Caxton benefitted from travellers passing through but highway robbers could also be a problem.
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