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highwayman sentence examples

  • By 1624 he had fallen into considerable financial straits and became a highwayman.
  • A predictably grinning hill told an audience of planners last week: i'm the dandy highwayman who you're too scared to mention.
  • The real rider was a 17th century highwayman called john nevison, who made the ride to give himself an alibi for a robbery.
  • Continuing on her way, julia rides through the woods, and meets the highwayman.
  • Trivia: plummer has the blood of a notorious highwayman in his veins.
  • He saw the young highwayman, a young man who was younger than he himself, fall to the ground.
  • For example here are some questions about a famous highwayman: who asks about a person e.g. who was dick turpin?
  • The story also has a highwayman called lord tom.
  • To start take the infamous highwayman dick turpin, hanged at tyburn in york.
  • Malcolm 27 nov 2005 the only thing unaffordable in the turner pension report is gordon, the modern day highwayman.
  • April 27th 1746 a local highwayman, known for vomiting on his victims, decided to retire.

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