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Перевод: highwayman

[существительное]
разбойник ; разбойник с большой дороги

Тезаурус:

1. A spot of folklore in Turpin Hero (Radio 4, Wednesday) in which David Ashford investigates the reality of that famous highwayman's legend.
2. "In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman."
3. Up at the bar he saw Everett Maltby and, beyond him, Tibbet the Highwayman and beyond him Cicely de Vaulles, who held the fief of the manor house, 250 yards from where he and Donald were drinking.
4. Local lore has it that the hands belong to a convicted highwayman who would hold up carriage-travellers in the early nineteenth century.
5. Clarke had already achieved fame as a law enforcer by tracking down and executing the famous dandy highwayman, Jack Rann.
6. He recognised his ex-pupil's handwriting on a letter and thereby identified the highwayman - even though Turpin had only been his pupil for three quarters of a year.
7. ON THIS DAY: In 1880, Australian highwayman Ned Kelly was hanged.
8. Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding, riding by, or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm, or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap.
9. If picture-books are for young children, then what is one to make of, for example, Charles Keeping's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs' Fungus the bogeyman ?
10. The statement "everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being" is, in the Universal Declaration, tantamount to the highwayman's "stand and deliver": if this right is not realisable within a society, it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies, and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale, so much the worse for the international community!
11. Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album, Highwayman 2, a number called Songs that Make a Difference.
12. As Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit, Elizabeth Renihan and Jenna Russell battle entertainingly for Macheath's dark heart, and there's strong support from Susan Jane-Tanner as an entertainingly sour Mrs Peachum, Anthony O'Donnell as a rotund Lockit, Nick Holder as a hilarious Brummie highwayman and from Alan Cox as the beggar who has supposedly written the opera.
13. A chapter on famous people, I was amused to see, devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints, scholars and patriots, but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber (1780 - 1849), a noted highwayman.