The rogues were very merry on their booty.

They said a thousand things that showed the wickedness of their morals .-- -Gil Bias.
They fixed on a spot where they made a cave, which was large enough to receive them and their horses.

This cave was inclosed within a sort of thicket of bushes and brambles.

From this station they used to issue, etc .-- -Memoirs of Richard Turpin.
It was not for several minutes after their flight had commenced that any conversation passed between the robbers.

Their horses flew on like wind; and the country through which they rode presented to their speed no other obstacle than an occasional hedge, or a short cut through the thicknesses of some leafless beechwood.