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Definition of Desperados
1. desperado [n] - See also: desperado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desperados
Literary usage of Desperados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prize Essays on a Congress of Nations for the Adjustment of International by John Augustus Bolles (1840)
"The penalties of law were never designed for those who act from principle, but
only for desperados. Now, there are no nations answering to the character of ..."
2. The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and Official by California Dept. of Public Instruction, Dept. of Public Instruction, California (1873)
"Not only the reputation of its wealth, but also the condition of its society,
made California especially alluring to desperados, rascals, and criminals from ..."
3. The United States Navy in the Spanish-American War of 1898: Narratives of by Charles Dwight Sigsbee (1899)
"... called them I asked him then if he would be kind enough desperados; accused
them of fighting for to make inquiry about a young colleague of money—making ..."
4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"One of the desperados had a nephew of fifteen or sixteen years of age, that kept
close by his uncle in the attack on the guards, and, when he saw him fall, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"... visited the frontier of 1860, where desperados then dwelt and where railroads,
hotels and automobiles now flourish locally in the wide arid spaces. ..."
6. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"But, since the feebleness of my force when piti against a band of desperados
might make the issue of the conflict L certain, I would advise your Excellency, ..."
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