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Definition of Robberies
1. robbery [n] - See also: robbery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robberies
Literary usage of Robberies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"Where are these highway-robberies now?—as I was observing to the Chancellor at
... But the cruelty with which highway-robberies used to be accompanied had ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Where are these highway-robberies now?—as I was observing to the Chancellor at
... But the cruelty with which highway-robberies used to be accompanied had ..."
3. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"Major Ross did not deny but that the robberies which had been ... I had pointed
out that robberies had been committed by the soldiers, and by whom the ..."
4. Britton by Francis Morgan Nichols (1865)
"I. With respect to robberies and larcenies, our will is, that Appeal of if other
persons desire to bring an appeal and sue for revenge of such felonies, ..."
5. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1898)
"... Nez Percy's Argument in Favor of War—robberies by the Blackfeet—Long-Suffering
of the Nez Perec's—a Hunter's Elysium among the Mountains—More robberies ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1904)
"... committed previously in Georgia nor afterwards in North Carolina,2 while it
furnished the stragglers a ready excuse for their robberies and outrages. ..."
7. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... Captain's Effort as a Pacificator—A Nez Percy's Argument in Favor of War—robberies
by the Blackfeet—Long-Suffering of the Nez ..."
8. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino, Herbert Eugene Bolton (1919)
"... in January and February, the Apaches came in, for their accustomed annual
robberies; and after stealing horses, etc., in various places, in the ranch of ..."
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