Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman. |
Was he not avenged on the highwayman at last, seeing that the biter was bitten! |
It is like giving of free will to the highwayman the purse he expected to have a fight for. |
Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster. |
In Yorkshire he became an extortioner and highwayman, eventually in partnership with Thomas Tankard and Edward Bracy. |
A highwayman has been seen in Eastgate Street adding credence to tales of an outlaw being murdered in the city for his ill-gotten gains. |