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  • DESPERADO CAUGHT IN POLICE DRAGNET.†  (source)
  • You do look like some kind of desperado, John Grady said.†  (source)
  • If he was to tell about this, our reputation as desperados would be ruint forever.†  (source)
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  • And Perry could remember many another rodeo spectacle-see again his father skipping about inside a circle of spinning lassos, or his mother, with silver and turquoise bangles jangling on her wrists, trick-riding at a desperado speed that thrilled her youngest child and caused crowds in towns from Texas to Oregon to "stand up and clap†  (source)
  • At last she come and begun to ask me questions, but I COULDN'T answer them straight, I didn't know which end of me was up; because these men was in such a fidget now that some was wanting to start right NOW and lay for them desperadoes, and saying it warn't but a few minutes to midnight; and others was trying to get them to hold on and wait for the sheep-signal; and here was Aunty pegging away at the questions, and me a-shaking all over and ready to sink down in my tracks I was that…  (source)
    desperadoes = bold outlaws
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use desperados.
  • Oedipa, sensitized, thinking of the bronze marker, smiled at him as granddaughterly as she knew how and asked, "Did he ever have to fight off desperados?"†  (source)
  • I took to wearing the strap across my chest, the drum riding my hips like a desperado's revolver.†  (source)
  • They are ragtag desperadoes with nothing to lose.†  (source)
  • You reckon he thinks we're desperados?†  (source)
  • Flat out through the Anatolian flatlands and down the townless, lightless country toward the sea, hellbent for water, knowing now the full meaning of desperado.†  (source)
  • Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley.†  (source)
  • Out there, somewhere, lived desperados, robbers, road-agents, murderers.†  (source)
  • But none of his friends seemed to be there though he thought that he had caught sight of the Du-dorov boy-he could not quite remember his name-that desperado who had so recently had a bullet extracted from his shoulder and who was again hanging about in places where he had no business to be.†  (source)
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