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Dictator Kam�l Atat�rk last week rushed with Turkish troops to the Syrian frontier and presumably his bravoes staged the riot in Antioch.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

"The baffled tyrant returned to Whitehall with his company of bravoes," while the city of London sheltered Hampden and his friends.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John

Queen Eleanor descended from her throne and amid clappings and bravoes gave Richard the stalk of lilies which had served her for sceptre and was now his palm of victory.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

He considered, in haste, whether between the bravoes and himself there were any outlet from the road, and he remembered there was none.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro