All are fearful areas, unpopulated and places of last resort for bandits and other desperadoes. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed?. From Wordnik.com. [September 2005] Reference
Little danger but the Edition will sell; Fraser knows his own Trade well enough, and is as much a "desperado" as poor Attila. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
"desperado" would make an excellenbt 7SD theme. check the lyrics against the shows. and i could use some extra royalties. From Wordnik.com. [WFMU's recent playlists] Reference
"If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed?. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Able Danger (re-edited)] Reference
Certainly such a desperado was unsafe to be at large. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference
I can't say that this young desperado is always victorious. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Instead I went on to become a writer, a desperado, of sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Driving Over Front Lawns With You] Reference
The desperado in the launch intended to be true to his nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
"Why, that was the same train the desperado, Wild Bill came on.". From Wordnik.com. [Wild Bill's Last Trail] Reference
A notorious gambler and desperado, and his accomplice, demurred. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
He did not like the idea of sailing with a desperado of that sort. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference
No one knew just how it happened, but Lett sprang at the desperado. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
At his order to surrender the desperado rushed upon him with drawn sword. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
A glitter was in his eyes, the glitter of the old desperado spirit returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
His speech is a whisper, and before his airy finger even the desperado quails. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
"Why, Nan Sherwood! you have the instincts of a desperado," declared her chum. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Morgan threw himself headlong upon the desperado, crushing him flat to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Now, except in newly opened diggings, the genuine desperado is a thing of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
He was a desperado, and it was said that he had killed at least two men in his time. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
In the days that followed, nervous citizens across the state reported seeing the desperado. From Wordnik.com. [The Corpse In The Creek] Reference
Obviously they're just clods and Christine O'Donnell is just a desperado clutching at straws. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: Christine O'Donnell Cited Endorsement from Non-Existent Catholic Group] Reference
This, added to his former sentence, makes twenty-four years of imprisonment for this desperado. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
So resourceful and crafty was this desperado that he evaded trap after trap laid for his capture. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Emile was a bad advertisement for the secrecy of his profession, for he looked a typical desperado. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
At last it tried its power over a notorious desperado named Ives, by calling a public trial of the miners. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
There was something convincing about his method of argument that even this young desperado could not combat. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
The hidden desperado, knowing that he was being hunted, stole the boat with its contents, and made his escape. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Alfred was a living curiosity, pointed out by some as a desperado to be shunned, sought by others to be idolized. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Thus equipped, the girl stole out through the back way, unobserved by her relations, to keep tryst with the desperado. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
"Dat is fur from our wish," said the desperado, "and if you won't walk away quietly wif us, we'uns will have to tote you away.". From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
After the desperado, Two-Gun Steve, had forced the engineer to run the train back to a siding, he had ordered Butch to vamoose. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Arming himself, he went into the main street of the village, and entering one of the principal saloons, confronted the desperado. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Something of a desperado the man might be under ordinary conditions; but just then, when facing death, he proved very tame indeed. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference
Much more lively in its nature was the connection with this parish of the notorious Cruel Coppinger, smuggler, wrecker, and desperado. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
You have committed the awful atrocity of awakening Camp Bannister at five A.M. with your ridiculous imitation, of a Western desperado. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
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