To waylay and harass
a band of trappers with their pack-horses, when embarrassed in the rugged defiles of the mountains, has become as favorite an exploit with these Indians as the plunder of a caravan to the Arab of the desert.
It was
a band of Sioux warriors, upwards of six hundred strong.
And thus it was that Robin Hood became outlawed; thus
a band of merry companions gathered about him, and thus he gained his right-hand man, Little John; and so the prologue ends.
said De Bracy; ``of stingless drones rather;
a band of lazy knaves, who take to the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour for their maintenance.