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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He could tell the highwayman was stone dead.
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However, highwaymen and armed guerrilla bands were becoming more numerous, especially along the roads from the seacoast to the capital.
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I think your highwayman is a cunning and resourceful villain.
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Local lore has it that the hands belong to a convicted highwayman who would hold up carriage-travellers in the early nineteenth century.
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Many of the highwaymen became legends.
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The highwayman had assumed it was a lance, but now a curved blade sprang out and glittered blue along its edges.
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The highwayman , having cheated the law for years, hanged for £ 4 of horseflesh.
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The countryside was his enemy: uncouth heather and highwayman copses kept taking his jewel and hiding it.