"I wasn't in England as a common bandit," he said, in reference to his arrest.

Similar spells would not let common bandits near the house.

I am not a common bandit.

"And these people who set upon you-just common bandits, you think?"

Each party had its private army composed of common bandits, smugglers, and similar ruffians, often numbering as many as twenty thousand men.

Kill the Master of the Aethyr on the road just as if you were a common bandit and him some piddling merchant?

At the time, the camp was being looted by the soldiers of The People's Army who have turned into common bandits.

The implication seemed to be that the kidnappers could be common bandits, though the absence of any demand for ransoms suggested otherwise.

"There is talk of the rebels holding them for ransom like common bandits."

Then does Your Grace still believe that these attackers were common bandits?