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Definition of Desperadoes
1. desperado [n] - See also: desperado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desperadoes
Literary usage of Desperadoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Plains: The Romance of Western American Exploration, Warfare, and by Randall Parrish (1907)
"The men of note on the border, who took up robbery as a trade, were seldom
brawlers, and almost never swaggered through the streets posing as desperadoes. ..."
2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... comforts—Systematic geniality—A standing puzzle — The respirator—-Scamps,
fools, mendicants, and desperadoes—The wrongs of sailor-men—"Is this myself? ..."
3. The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado, with Historical by Emerson Hough (1907)
"... Scenes of desperadoes—How Bad Men Died—The Last Moments of desperadoes Who
Finished on the Scaffold—Utterances of Terror, of Defiance, and of Cowardice. ..."
4. History of the North Mexican States by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Joseph Joshua Peatfield, William Nemos (1889)
"... IMPROVED CONDITION OF TEXAS — desperadoes OCCUPY THE NEUTRAL GROUND—THEIR
ORGANIZATION. WITH the opening of the nineteenth century Texas began to emerge ..."
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