"She shall play with me," said the little
robber child.
``Whose good lance,'' replied the
robber, ``won the prize in to-day's tourney?
"Your Honour," said the
Robber, "I could do no otherwise than take the money, for Allah made me that way."
Black
robber bees are swiftly and stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the
robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life.
The dead
robber swung slowly to and fro in the wintry wind, a fixed smile upon his swarthy face, and his bulging eyes still glaring down the highway of which he had so long been the terror; on a sheet of parchment upon his breast was printed in rude characters; ROGER PIED-BOT.
"But have you got the
robber's description?" asked Stuart.
A
robber is more high- toned than what a pirate is -- as a general thing.
These men were not so much mere
robbers as gamblers.
Then, he was alone with Sikes, plodding on as on the previous day; and as shadowy people passed them, he felt the
robber's grasp upon his wrist.
The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the
robbers had left, with as much eagerness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
I found myself in a country that was quite new to me, and dared not return to the main road lest I should again fall into the hands of the
robbers. Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.
Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these
robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company."