There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
We have seen none of those things during the past two years, and for the sake of those who have worked so hard for law and order, we hope the desperado element has passed on.
He learned that the man who shot at him was "Billy Oliver," a horse thief and desperado of the worst type, and that he was the leader of a band of horse thieves that was then in town.
Still we find during this period the first stirrings of a desire for increase of knowledge and greater liberty of religious thought.
In November, 1659, he set out with the army for London, and in about six months' time Charles returned in triumph to England.
My life is too valuable to throw away, and they tell me that Lyman is nothing short of a desperado when he is stirred up, though you wouldn't think it to look at him.
Old Jasper, in his earlier days, had been a town marshal, and it was his boast that he had arrested Steve Day, the desperado who had choked the sheriff and defied the law.
Pernales now formed a fresh partnership with a desperadoof similar calibre to himself, a soulless brute, known as the Niño de Arahál, whose acquaintance he had made at a village of that name.
The bloody littledesperado smiled cheerfully, and he dropped his right hand down to the butt of his gun.
Here in the Indian country, as though in a hotbed especially contrived, the desperado has flourished for generations.
Sometimes a base imitation of a desperado is exalted in the public eye as the real article.
For, in spite of the fact that the ideal desperado was one who did not rob or kill for gain, the most usual form of early desperadoism had to do with attempts at unlawfully acquiring another man's property.
He was very insulting and overbearing, very noisy and obnoxious, the sort of desperado who makes unarmed men beg and compels "tenderfeet" to dance for his amusement.
Their nature at times would cause a hardened desperado of the West to blush for shame.
Mistaking the servant with the sword in his hand for the desperado returning to the attack, and realizing his own helpless condition, the consul fired two shots at him, wounding him with both shots.
So the desperado continued to peer through the dim night, cursing his stars and everybody's stars for not shining better, and seeing his opportunity slip rapidly away.
The desperado heard the summons, hesitated a moment, cocked the revolver in his belt, loosened his knife in its sheath, rose from his blanket, and walked slowly in the direction of the voice.
After a moment of sullen reflection the desperado said, "Five hundred dollars!
This desperado has for upwards of seventeen years been the terror of the Straits of Macassar, during which period he has committed the most extensive and dreadful excesses sparing no one.
He cried out to the man that that was his pony; whereupon the desperado laughed at him.
Dang it, Shark, I can't help thinkin' how funny it is that an Easterner like you can come out here and give us Western fellows cards and spades in the desperado business.
Littlefield stood with his gun ready, praying that the desperado would come within range.
They decided that the letter might have been sent by Mexico Sam, a half-breed border desperado who had been imprisoned for manslaughter four years before.
When they looked again for the strange relic of the desperado of Port Arthur, it also had vanished.
The desperado of Port Arthur, the escaped mutineer and murderer, was before her, with unchained arms, free to wreak his will of her.
The notorious criminal, Rufus Dawes, the desperado of Port Arthur, the wild beast whom the Gazette had judged not fit to live, had just entered the witness-box.
Mrs. Vickers and Sylvia, coming out while he still slept, recognized him as the desperado of the settlement.
He lifted his desperado of a hat and immediately turned away, trying to conceal his jug under his left arm, but inadvertently letting it protrude.
And it was with the face of a desperado at bay that he confronted Nancy as she entered.
Shortly after the event just related, Bill Mulvey, a notorious rough and desperado from St. Joseph, Mo.
In a few weeks after the killing of Thompson, Bill again visited Ellsworth, and during this visit he met with an episode in which his influence among the desperado element was clearly evidenced.
When Bill drew his pistol there was always one less desperado to harass the law-abiding, and his presence served to allay the hunger of cut-throats and rapacious plunderers.
All classes of men were to be found among these drivers, from the graduate of Yale and Harvard to the desperado deep-dyed in his villainy.
Then the dog became attached to Corporal Watts, accompanied him for four years on special duty, and was with him at Exshaw, when Watts narrowly escaped death at the hands of a desperado there.
He began shooting holes in verandahs, and if any one went to look out of a window the Idaho desperado threatened to "make him into a sieve.
Craig and Walters were dragging the prisoner across the bridge, the desperado fighting like a demon, and a scarlet woman following them with cries and curses.
The desperado on the ground was handcuffed at once, and, while a policeman was searching his pockets rapidly to ascertain if he carried another pistol, Steingall gripped Curtis by the shoulder.
The effort failed, however, so the second desperado drew a knife and plunged it deliberately into the unfortunate man's neck.
With Jesse Evans was a desperadonamed William Campbell.
He was later shot by desperado Joe Fowler, with a double-barrel shot gun, as he lay in bed asleep.
In all other respects the fin de siècle desperado was unique.
He noted the pusillanimous pallor of the driver and his friend, and felt personally indebted to the desperado who had put a stop to their unpleasant conversation.
It was not merely his reputation that was at stake, though nothing could restore that more effectually than the single-handed capture of so notorious a desperado as Stingaree.
The desperado is known in the Red Desert as 'The Killer,' and he has had the entire region terrorized so completely that the town marshal of Angels, a man who has never before shirked his duty, refused to serve the warrant.
The desperadoin the launch intended to be true to his nature.
With an oath the desperado reached for his revolver.
He knew Jarrow for a desperado and, although he could not bring himself to believe the man would actually carry out any such threat as he had made, still he realized to the full the peril of his situation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desperado" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
