Down came the "Black Roger" with its skull and crossbones from the fore, and Colonel Rhett had the glory of fetching back as pretty a cargo of scoundrels and cutthroats as the town ever saw.
Like all the cutthroats it has the red markings below the jaws.
But as they all belong to the cutthroats and vary each from the other but little, further mention is unnecessary.
But do not make a mistake; it was not their character, which Fritz Scheff viewed askance; they might be cutthroats and villains of the deepest dye, and it would not worry him any in the least.
There were at least twelve of the cutthroats who swarmed into the hall, some of them reënforcements, men who had been sleeping in other parts of the castle, and who had been aroused by the racket.
Perhaps as a last resort he might use it, to strike terror into the superstitious greasers and cutthroats who were making their foul nest in this once beautiful home.
It's an unhung gang of bloody cutthroats the old man's got ashore," remarked Old Pete.
Vasquez and his associates took to flight and were pursued as far as Tejunga Pass; but as thecutthroats were mounted on fresh horses, they escaped.
Posses scoured the surrounding country, but the cutthroats were never apprehended.
I know the local cutthroats and pipemen, while every son of Ham that walks there has a razor ready for use, right in his closed fist.
It was clear from the very atmosphere that the four cutthroatshated each other cordially.
Lawrence watched him as the two ships sheered off, then as he heard the exhaust of the approaching ship bearing its load of cutthroats Lawrence realized that their chances of life were dwindling.
Yes, he could trust the three cutthroats he had left behind.
Fortunately, my brave Sobieski will be at the President's house by this time, and your guards may arrive before thosecutthroats in the street decide to storm the hotel.
For companions he chooses a gang of cutthroats that the world would never miss in case anything went wrong.
Where did this ship and its precious gang of cutthroats come from, anyway?
Having seen those cutthroatsin action, Simon thought their new state of holiness absurd.
Those three cutthroats would never have let themselves be overrun, nor would I.
While I was down there along comes one of the cutthroats with a bucket.
To oppose General Winthrop's trained crews with selected cutthroats and traitors may have historical precedent, but it scarcely seems the optimum procedure in this case!
Were colonists ever anything but psalm singing rebels or cutthroats trying to escape hanging?
Charles was penniless, as usual; he offered his horde of cutthroats the rich spoils of Tuscany and Rome, they swore to follow him to death and perdition, and he began his southward march.
The position of twenty or thirty women and girls under the same roof with several hundreds of the most atrocious cutthroats of any age was undeniably such as to justify the most tyrannical measures for their protection.
But this did not prevent the same body of cutthroats from visiting the Roanne, soon after nightfall, and despatching all the Protestants that were there, to the number of about seventy.
None the less was the task accomplished with thoroughness, and the exultant cutthroats now had leisure to pursue the fugitives of the Grand Marché to the villages in which they had taken refuge.
Now, though he was in the enemy's country, surrounded by cutthroats and thieves, he felt suddenly the master of the situation.
Governor Mason has threatened martial law in the mining regions, which are filled with cutthroatsand robbers.
His activities were being recognized; he had made his impression; the cutthroats had selected him to threaten.
Will you mention who else these cutthroats have tried to browbeat and frighten?
If it wasn't you that killed him, it was one of that murderous gang of cutthroats and anarchists that was with you.
They are not accustomed over there to hiring thugs and cutthroats to carry on their business.
A fine gang of cutthroats who would have liked nothing better than to get rid of Jim.
The black pirate, Caesar, and his cutthroats did the rest.
My other men, who took your silly band of cutthroats to jail, ought to be back by then.
Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed, And proved himself thereby portentousest Of cutthroats and a prodigy of crime, As the woman that he slaughtered was a saint, Martyr and miracle!
What it meant to fight off these greedy cutthroats is told in a newspaper account of the engagement of Captain Richard Wheatland, who was homeward bound to Salem in the ship Perseverance in 1799.
After a month of weary, drenching hardship off the China coast, this crew of cutthroats mutinied.
You have no conception, dear, of what would follow were this pack of cutthroats to gain control of the Fuwalda.
And so, while Jane Porter and Esmeralda were barricading themselves within the cabin, the cowardly crew of cutthroats were pulling rapidly for their ship in the two boats that had brought them ashore.
It is enough for me to tell you again that no one shall go from under my roof to the place where robbers and cutthroats congregate.
We've got the chance we have been waiting for--the chance to catch thosecutthroats red-handed!
About twenty cutthroats under Valenzuela and Three-Fingered Jack began working in the neighborhood.
He let his eyes go around the place taking quick appraisal of their numerous pack and saddle animals, their camp equipment, their plump buckskin sacks--rich booty if only he had a party of cutthroats at his heels.
There were plenty of cutthroats in California during that spring of 1850, and no lack of Mexicans among them.
Maurice's account of the den of cutthroats has modified these entirely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cutthroats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
