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Desperados would not be troubled by such niceties.desperados = bold outlaws
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Become a desperado.† (source)
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The walls are lined with illuminated signs, each one bearing the image of some Old West desperado.† (source)
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DESPERADO CAUGHT IN POLICE DRAGNET.† (source)
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You do look like some kind of desperado, John Grady said.† (source)
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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)
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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 outlawsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use desperados.
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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)
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I took to wearing the strap across my chest, the drum riding my hips like a desperado's revolver.† (source)
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They are ragtag desperadoes with nothing to lose.† (source)
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You reckon he thinks we're desperados?† (source)
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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)
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Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley.† (source)
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Out there, somewhere, lived desperados, robbers, road-agents, murderers.† (source)
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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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