Sentence examples for french bandit from inspiring English sources

After he allowed them a final week, Kittoo discovered George W. M. Reynolds' novel Robert Macaire: or, The French bandit in England (1848).

Veppathur Kittoo, one of his storyboard artists, eventually developed a story based on a chapter of George W. M. Reynolds' novel Robert Macaire: or, The French bandit in England (1848), which impressed Vasan.

Although a period film, Chandralekha is not based on historical fact; instead its plot is based on the first chapter of the novel Robert Macaire: or, The French bandit in England.

"The French are like a bandit with a sawn-off shotgun," said Sir Mark.

Since her once all-powerful husband lost the elections last year she has been fond of evoking an even higher authority to combat the man she calls the devil, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and the bandit, her nickname for president-elect Alassane Ouattara, whose forces are laying siege to her home.

Numerous French citizens have been seized by bandits or jihadist groups in West Africa in recent years.

For example, French invaders and Spanish guerrillas and bandits blocked paths and roads into the city, hampering the provision of food.

Its countryside, especially on the French border, was infested with smugglers and bandits and riven by local feuds.

Italy and Spain, too, exercised an influence, though, with the exception of Dante, it was not their literature that attracted so much as the models for violent emotion and exotic fantasy that these countries offered: French writing suffered a proliferation of gypsies, bandits, poisonings, and revenge tales.

Aramis's life as a monk is disrupted when bandits, having stolen gunpowder from the French, arrive at his monastery, taking all hostage.

He went to Torremolinos to make a lavish western about a love-triangle between a 15-year-old French girl, an Irish priest and a bad, bad Mexican bandit called The Singer Not the Song.