How To Use Desperado In A Sentence
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Beef for the desperado, he thought, and selected Butrick's Steak House from the eating places available in the Mall.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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beseeches" the brigand for "his son Onesimus," telling him that now he receives him "forever," and then calls the desperado "our dearly beloved fellow-laborer"!
The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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IFP deputy chairman Lionel Mtshali on Monday said: "It astonishes us that the ANC leadership in KwaZulu-Natal can allow the premier of this province to be described as a desperado and as
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I want it to be a little better than it is (as with Desperado's other title reviewed above, part of the problem may be the lack of an editorial hand), but the pacing is fine so far, and Sudzuka's art is quite lovely (except for Megan's "spaghetti hair"), so I'll stick around to see how it all turns out.
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless state in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated state, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilised countries.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
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The game can be played from a number of perspectives including that of the Indians, Mexicans, Americans, or a gang of desperados.
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At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.
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This entertainment business has been there for several years now and has succeeded in attracting an array of alcoholics, drunks, gamblers, aggressive individuals and desperados of every description.
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Soon, the desperados ' concerns of how and when to split the gold pale in comparison to the dire need to simply survive the strange inhabitants of this haunted mansion.
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Indeed the danger was that the other side of my mind, which should be busy with the great problem, would get atrophied, and that I should soon be mentally on a par with the ordinary backveld desperado.
Greenmantle
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The desperados collide with the drillers and a hostage situation takes shape but guns and threats aren't the only danger facing our heroes.
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The wolf is not a desperado, but a scoundrel.
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An announcement came over the speakers to say that the Desperados de Amor would be performing in half an hour.
DESPERADOES
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And the two live happily ever after in a condo named after Ron - El Desperado.
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At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.
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This wolf is not a desperado, but a scoundrel.
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On the American side, Bin Laden's death might plausibly stoke desires to quit Afghanistan and Iraq which draws considerable support from the public's ignorant conflation of Bin Laden and Saddam asap, i.e. the desperado's dead, the job's done, to hell with long-term geopolitics!
Alive or Dead?
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Don't provoke me too far . My father started out as a desperado, nothing scares me.
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The opening sequence features a blade being sharpened on stone, quickly cross-cutting to a chaotic chase in which a gang of desperadoes attempt to capture a rogue chicken.
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And my dark apprehensions gained double force when a stone was dislodged by my foot (which may have trembled), and rolled with a sharp echo down into the ballium, or whatever it should be called, where these desperadoes stood.
Springhaven
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Yes, my class-seeking desperados, pashmina as a shawl has passed its prime!
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Where other desperados took the money and ran, the Kelly gang, remarkably enough, turned bank robberies into weekend social events - occasions for improvised partying and propaganda.
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`I cannot say I approve of having such a desperado within the Town.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.
After the Crash, a Crashing Bore
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What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses?
OUTCAST
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Little danger but the Edition will sell; Fraser knows his own Trade well enough, and is as much a "desperado" as poor Attila
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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Here you will meet the most selfish chinovnik, the most fanatic desperado or reckless bureaucrat; there you face the noblest men and women, supermen, physically and mentally.
Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
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It would have been a shock had he not seen it before and been familiar with the label fastened to the breastbone reciting that this had once been Flat Nose George, an early day desperado of the high country.
Laramie Holds the Range
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I'm just o 'your mind," quoth the desperado, "and I'll send ye a maukin [111] the morn, man.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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You have information as to the arrival of a man known as a desperado with a grudge against the two dead men, yet you know of no steps to take.
The Call of the Cumberlands
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The opening sequence features a blade being sharpened on stone, quickly cross-cutting to a chaotic chase in which a gang of desperadoes attempt to capture a rogue chicken.
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Any attempt to develop a de-escalation strategy with these desperados is senseless.
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Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.
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What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses?
OUTCAST
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He was attended by certain clans of the Highlands -- desperadoes used to freebootery from their infancy, and consequently to the use of arms, and possessed of a certain species of discipline.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
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PENHAUL (on camera): And as the countdown to the January 30 elections continues, government officials believe the resistance fighters whom they describe as desperadoes will step up their sabotage campaign.
CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004
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The stickup caused Main Street to rumble with a shootout that had residents and law enforcement officials alike scrambling and trading shots with the desperadoes.
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This quantity of dangerous but potentially precious materials offers a temptation for adventurers and desperados,’ said the report.
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This was before the days of the DEADLANDS RPG and HIGH MOON (hiya, David!) and the DESPERADOES books by Jeff Mariotte and company.
Strangeways – Behind the Scenes – 02 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Nervous of legal action from passengers humiliated by fouling themselves in their seats, most carriers allowed crew to decide whether the person requesting admission to the smallest part of the plane was desperate or a desperado.
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Not quite as slammed together as it's predecessors, '92's El Mariachi and '95's Desperado, but still majorly fun.
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About this period a "desperado" of world-wide fame named Harry Tracy was raising a siege of terror in the State of Oregon, having committed over a dozen murders, and successfully baffled the police.
From Paris to New York by Land
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Rand assured him that the desperadoes were the same that had been referred to, and he continued:
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon
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When the sheriff's posse catches up with Roy's gang of desperados, the lawmen announce a $5,000 price on Roy's head.
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Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Watson's house, and took him from his bed, amid screams of 'murder' from his wife and seven children; but the only reply the wife and children received at the hands of the desperadoes was a beating.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences
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Lately a child in the other cabin was taken ill, and though there were idle men and horses at hand, it was only the "desperado" who rode sixty miles in "the shortest time ever made" to bring the doctor.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Beef for the desperado, he thought, and selected Butrick's Steak House from the eating places available in the Mall.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town
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He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed?
Danger Able Danger (re-edited)
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`I cannot say I approve of having such a desperado within the Town.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The title of "desperado," "Negro murderer," is very easily obtained in the South.
" Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
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His band of desperados specialized in looting feudal landlords and Mughal treasury.
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At first, the French tried to keep the FLNC and the assorted desperadoes of the maquis under control by deploying their police forces and gendarmerie to enforce law and order.
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Local residents thought a band of desperadoes was being hunted down, but the reality was that they were conducting a purge of undesirables, drunks and criminal elements in preparation for the summer season.
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‘No guts, no glory’ is the motto here and the 2,500 skiable acres of the resort includes innumerable chutes, bowls, faces and couloirs with legends of die-hards and desperadoes and near-death experiences attached to them.
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Antonio Banderas is a bandolero out to get even in Desperado.
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A storm brings down Gary's aircraft in the desert where he is captured by a gang of desperados - remnants of the Angolan war.
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On the other hand, his evil repute has been wildly exaggerated by careless journalists and their local informants, who seek to embellish their limited acquaintance with a "desperado"; with the result that the real man has been virtually entombed by tale and legend which since his death has petrified as myth.
An Epic of the Everglades
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A couple of desperados like you two should be able to pull this off just fine,’ said Bill.
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My guide tells me she has arranged more adventure activities, this time in the desert - and images of red canyons, towering rock formations and gangs of desperados comes to mind.
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The joint was hopping with all kinds of low-lifes and desperados.
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These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains.
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He smiled, a cowboy hat lending the singer-songwriter a touch of the desperado.
It's Never Too Late to Grate
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Bounty Hunter's ‘saloon keeper’ Andy Herbert (also called wine maverick and desperado) and his co-saloon keepers Glen Hugo and Eddie Huntz don't take themselves too seriously, but they know their wine.
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Labat claimed that he once subdued a shipful of Spanish desperadoes who were aiming muskets and sabers at him by flourishing a cross worn by officers of the Inquisition.
A Traveler's Way With Words
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That evening the camp of the fifteen college boys invited the desperados.
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They were obliged to confess that Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless State in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated State, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilized countries.
Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863.
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After creating a disturbance in the Shopping Center, two desperados were retrieved from the jungle by arresting officers.
