Bonnie and Clyde, e.g.

Usage examples of desperados.

The people were wrought up into the highest alarm as to outrages and excesses that these flying desperados might be expected to commit.

It may puzzle some to understand how a relatively small band of political desperados in each State could accomplish such a momentous wrong.

By 1869 the railroad had already spanned the United States , and desperados who had escaped the eastern police by vanishing into the painted expanse of the West were now being relentlessly pursued.

Many on the wanted list were desperados whose respect for the law was nil, and whose attendance at a sheriffs office on their own volition was hard to imagine.

Out there, somewhere, lived desperados, robbers, road-agents, murderers.

They were bandits, desperados, murderers, lost, but each remembered in her a mother or a sister.

There were desperados whose glittering eyes showed they had no gold with which to gamble.

He cleared his throat and smiled at all the men, winking one eye, and then he says, "Our state of Florida don't welcome desperados on the run from somewheres else.

Hearing voices, then compelled against his will to reveal himself, Claude came upon the very desperados who had seized his friends.

And from the desperados, whether they be Einstein or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, come the strength and the upheaval that moves the world forward toward light and reason.

Cars were passing every couple of minutes, and he felt nervous standing near to the Shark when any moment some desperados could drive by and gun him down.