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Usage examples of cutthroat.

Unfortunately that route was notorious for its bandits and cutthroats, and Arem needed a bodyguard to make sure he got through the short cut safely.

Round the corner was another street which seemed much calmer, although again I was deceived, for this Drury Lane was accounted one of the most vile and dangerous in the city, full of bawds and cutthroats.

The cartel considered him adequate for paying Smith his bribes, and for balancing the ledgers at that bordello I mentioned, but Moore found out that cartel headquarters in Prussia considered their man not cutthroat enough to handle the next phase of their plan to crush us.

I had therefore every reason to fear the thieves of Muran--a very dangerous class of cutthroats, determined murderers who enjoyed and abused a certain impunity, because they had some privileges granted to them by the Government on account of the services they rendered in the manufactories of looking-glasses and in the glassworks which are numerous on the island.

In point of fact, he brought me news the next day that my cutthroat had received orders from his superior officer to leave Aixla-Chapelle at day-break, and at the same time he gave me a passport from the Prince de Conde.

Well, when he came through Kansas he heard about a bunch of hiders who banded together and had been raiding homesteads and performing all sorts of cutthroat acts.

If ever a creature was born to rule a company of cutthroats, Kesk was surely the bully in question.

When I leaned over the edge of the creek to see if I had damaged the culvert, peering through the smoky mist, a great lunker of a cutthroat came floating out, belly up.

A weapon of some kind was always a necessity for those who strode the byways of a haven for cutpurses and cutthroats like Mos Eisley.

For both had been deeply drunk and vulnerable when the cutthroat Muggins killed them in tandem and took all their money: forty-eight cents.

But this noseless captain had acquired a vessel and a crew of vicious cutthroats.

The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.

With their disintegration, cutthroat capitalism, petty-stateism, senseless competition, and canonized selfishness, they have created want and insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, unemployment, despair and suicide.

Torand Rego was the second most well-known pirate in this sector of space, and his cutthroat crew aboard the Hawk was notorious.

Meghan Kearney was grateful to American Devlin Montague for rescuing her from the gang of Bahamian cutthroats.