bank-robber

bank-robber (plural bank-robbers)

1. Rare form of bank robber.
   • 1799 March 4, Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, volume XV, number 2015, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], column 2:

     With groupes of pick-pockets, bank-robbers and hen-pecked dotards, who make a jeſt of their holy functions, and with more than gallic indifference, ſport with liberty, property and life.

   • 1827 December 3, The National Gazette and Literary Register, volume VII, number 2170, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], column 1:

     Suelson, the Petersburg bank-robber, has been taken and lodged in jail at Quebec.

   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 283:

     “If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;⁠—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it. A great thing, indeed, sir; particularly as regards the detection of bank-robbers and murderers.” / “I don’t quite like it, in that point of view,” replied Clifford. “A bank-robber, and what you call a murderer, likewise, has his rights, which men of enlightened humanity and conscience should regard in so much the more liberal spirit, because the bulk of society is prone to controvert their existence. An almost spiritual medium, like the electric telegraph, should be consecrated to high, deep, joyful, and holy missions. […]”

   • 2022 September 29, Alex Browne, “Crime ‘dramedy’ Bandit set for local opening in Langley”, in Cloverdale Reporter, Black Press Media, page A26:

     Starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert and Mel Gibson, Bandit is the real-life story of U.S.-born bank-robber Gilbert Galvan (played by Duhamel), who in the late 1980s won himself the title of Canada’s “flying bandit.”