1) Army of Cripples: survivors who have been physically debilitated from wounds which they sustained in the great war.
2) Army of Mourners: survivors who grieve for friends and family killed in the great war.
3) Army of Thieves: survivors who loot and steal for plunder they feel is owed to them, or possibly because the great war has deprived them of their ordinary livelihood.
The short story "Civil Peace" was written by Chinua Achebe. The thieves are very bold and cocky, and when Jonathon and his family begin to yell for help, the thieves respond by helping them with that.
In a civil peace story, thieves knock on the door in the middle of the night.
France made Vietnam a colony in the 1800s and it was called French Indochina. The Vietnamese managed to eject the French in 1954. The French had tried to return and reimpose a colonial regime after WWII. After the French gave up Vietnam was divided into North and South, though this was supposed to be temporary and elections were supposed to be held to select a national government to be over the entire country, both parts. The US realized that the candidates of the north, though communists, were more popular than the corrupt thieves the US was backing as leaders in the south, and so, the elections were never held. Before the French took over Vietnam was sometimes called Cochin China.
Knights were the lowest rung of nobility during the middle ages. They were essentially soldiers for hire, and most of them were thieves, murderers, rapists, and worse; though if they were victorious in battle, they were awarded lands, and even titles. Tournaments were not the polite, colorful jousts we imagine, but were often brutal, wholesale slaughters. The version of the chivalrous knight we have today comes from the writings of Thomas Malory; his Le Morte D'Arthur, which was written while Malory, a knight himself, was imprisoned for several of the crimes enumerated above. This romanticized version is mainly fiction.
It convinced both Arab Muslims and Jews that they had a right to an independent state in Palestine.
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a gang of thieves a den of thieves a skulk of thieves a band of thieves
The possessive form of the plural noun thieves is thieves'.Example: The thieves' hideout was raided by the police.
Slang refers to informal language, typically used among a particular group of people or in a specific context. It often includes words or phrases that are not considered standard in formal language but are widely understood within that group or context. Slang can help convey shared understanding, create a sense of belonging, or express creativity.
The possessive form of the plural noun thieves is thieves'.Example: The thieves' hideout was raided by the police.
his father was the leader of forty thieves, that is what made him the prince of thieves and able to marry jasmine
Pirates are thieves. Some thieves do nice things but they are still thieves.
It should be "a gang of thieves" or "a group of thieves" instead of "a crowd of thieves".
The singular form of the plural noun thieves is thief.
The thieves were caught red-handed as they tried to steal valuables from the jewelry store.