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There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2018

One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti".

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Examining the prisoners, who were now crowded in with merchants and grandees, he inquired for banditti from Panama, and three slaves stepped forward who knew every path and avenue to the city.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter