Do you occasionally send your boys-the followers of this dangerous bandit-to Mike's place with a bucket?
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
We have eaten up the dowry, the inheritance has been swallowed by your bandit of a brother.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
Perhaps He whose Name is blessed may meantime have compassion, and that, when your brother the bandit, hears that I, heaven forbid, have left you a grass-widow, he will be touched, his stony heart will soften, and he will perhaps send you a few rubles.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz