There is a long history of treating highway robbers as heroes.

For us those highway robbers are good people; we must bless them; having cause to do so.

This hotel was a popular haunt for highway robbers and smugglers.

Leah inquired about the elder son, and the people said that he was a wicked man, a highway robber.

In the last 18 months, according to teamsters union statistics, highway robbers have killed 139 truck drivers.

No clever man with the instinct of a highway robber could fail to notice what a chance for business was here offered.

In their own country nothing but highway robbers and skilful hunters, wearing clothes mostly of leaves.

They have confiscated some weapons and arrested a couple of highway robbers in the last weeks, but little more.

By 1924 Kalakani became a highway robber and a member of a rebel group in his village.

So it was more likely some kind of highway robber, hoping to clean him out.