Rand assured him that the desperadoes were the same that had been referred to, and he continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference

We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Crash, a Crashing Bore] Reference

There were unruly slaves, what we called desperadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference

Dangerous struggle against desperadoes for land rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference

Sweat out a round of poker with a tableful of desperadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonanza Was Never Like This] Reference

Then the desperadoes went back and began to ransack the stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference

There are also many wretched desperadoes from the gaming-tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

"We were desperadoes, dead-end kids," says cellist Jascha Silberstein.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of An Ensemble] Reference

Therefore, the flying desperadoes received as hot a fire as they sent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

The desperadoes all around me whipped out their revolvers and commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

And these Wall street desperadoes are as eager to get our greenbacks as you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Dangerous struggle against desperadoes for land rights brings out heroic adventures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference

But just think of accepting these things from a band of desperadoes and horse thieves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

It began to look exceedingly dark for the unlucky desperadoes inside of the next minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

The child does not fear tramps and desperadoes, simply because she has never encountered them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

He is a fearless and just judge, and it is a wonder that desperadoes have not killed him long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

They notified six of the leading desperadoes that they must be out of the place by a certain day and hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

Such were the dreams that haunted my pillow nearly all the time I was forced to remain with these desperadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Such localities are often a sort of "No Man's Land" where would-be desperadoes think they can set law to defiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

But nothing occurred to mar the stillness of the night, and they wondered if the desperadoes had after all escaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

But the boldest of these desperadoes, tiger-like, crouched on his hands and knees, and got in the rear of the cabin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

The common slang, "a bad man," in referring to Western desperadoes, in almost the identical sense now used, is found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

It was full of thugs and desperadoes of the worst sort, come to prey upon the hundreds of cowboys who were paid off there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

Hate groups pop up all the time, blustering and menacing, but it seems to be the truly lonely desperadoes who act out most violently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loner: Inside The Mind And Motive Of The Capitol Gunman] Reference

Morgan rode back to town in thoughtful, serious mood after conducting the six desperadoes across the small trickle of the Arkansas River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Lamartine's eloquence from the conspiracy of a few thousand desperadoes, and the stormy passions of a mob that hardly knew what it wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

It would be impossible for two small boys to capture such desperadoes in the dead of night, especially as neither lad was armed, they argued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

Downriver they pick up two stranded, shady characters (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) who -- no surprise -- turn out to be gun-toting desperadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meryl (Yes, Meryl) Goes Macho] Reference

He had been on the watch for just this thing, and noted that there was plenty of cover where the express was halted wherein the desperadoes could hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference

We had time enough to pass this house, but having a list of desperadoes, and being disappointed in seeing Gatewood, curiosity induced us to spend the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference

Among the desperadoes who frequented his gambling-hut, during their short stay in Gorgona, was conceived the desperate plan of putting out the lights, and upsetting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

The two desperadoes now began walking back and forth through the yard, displaying their weapons and threatening to shoot any one that accused them of committing any depredation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference