That's all that he was.

But without him Senor Ribiera would have been a dead man.

This Nostromo, sir, a man absolutely above reproach, became the terror of all the thieves in the town.

We were infested, infested, overrun, sir, here at that time by ladrones and matreros, thieves and murderers from the whole province.

On this occasion they had been flocking into Sulaco for a week past.