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Definition of Dacoits
1. dacoit [n] - See also: dacoit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dacoits
Literary usage of Dacoits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Province of Burma: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of by Alleyne Ireland (1907)
"Unless they were afterwards protected, punishment by the dacoits was ...
The general procedure of a band of dacoits was to approach the village to be ..."
2. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"they whispered as I got near them. It was too late. We had been seen, and a
number, of dacoits, armed with matchlocks and swords, came rapid- * Nari ..."
3. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"they whispered as I got near them. It was too late. We had been seen, and a number
of dacoits, armed with matchlocks and swords, came rapid- * Nari ..."
4. The Pacification of Burma by Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite (1912)
"CHAPTER V DEALING WITH dacoits IT was about this time (May, ... A noted gang,
led by men of more force than the ordinary leaders of dacoits possessed, ..."
5. Burma, After the Conquest: Viewed in Its Political, Social, and Commercial by Grattan Geary (1886)
"Ten thousand dacoits were known to be already in movement. They were strong in
the valley of the ... The dacoits had been strengthened by the fugi- ..."
6. Some Records of Crime: Being the Diary of a Year, Official and Particular by Charles Hervey (1892)
"... to Delivery transfer to Sleeman, at that time holding my Th present office,
twenty-two dacoits taken into custody by the local officers of that State, ..."
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