Title song of a 1973 Eagles album

Usage examples of desperado.

All in all, he was fairly satisfied with the subjective sensation that he was the baddest desperado in all of Lincoln County.

Feeling like a trademark that he had seen somewhere for a brand of Mexican cigarillos, Hunt sent a parting wave to the two girls in what he hoped was good desperado style and followed Murray and Nixie out onto the stairway.

In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.

Just about eligible to travel with this bilk here--Shadbelly Higgins--this loud-mouthed sneak that shoots people in the back and calls himself a desperado.

One road takes them deeper and deeper into crime, into becoming real brutalised desperadoes.

The Vagabonds, criollos, the mountain-dwelling Indian peons, the desperadoes from the mining-country up north, these were only permitted to gather in the City on certain occasions, and an auto da fé was one of them.

Jack, Jimmy, Danny, and Tomba moved north to a frontier town in Zacatecas where no one cared if Jack failed to wear his sanbenito—or if they did, they were too scared to say anything, because this was a town of desperadoes, and every man went armed all the time.

Now with Sheriff Nailor and a posse forcing from behind, and another and fresher posse cutting in from the west, it would be the time, once and for all, to rid the country of the desperadoes before they could re-establish a foothold in the hills.

It was rumored that he had been a mere youth when first he had taken to the bloody trail of Colt, Winchester and running-iron, and had recruited around him a gang of desperadoes as brave and lawless as himself, though all of them years older.

He began a raid on the outlaws, and in a singularly short space of time he had completely stopped their depredations on the stage stock, recovered a large number of stolen horses, killed several of the worst desperadoes of the district, and gained such a dread ascendancy over the rest that they respected him, admired him, feared him, obeyed him!

Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish.

It was a jury composed of two desperadoes, two low beer-house politicians, three bar-keepers, two ranchmen who could not read, and three dull, stupid, human donkeys!

It was asserted by the desperadoes that one of their brethren (Joe McGee, a special policeman) was known to be the conspirator chosen by lot to assassinate Williams.

Yet the name Belle Starr remains linked with some of the most vicious killers and desperadoes of the day--men like Frank and Jesse James and the Younger brothers.

After several days John Shirley lost patience and ordered the desperadoes off his place, locking Belle in an upstairs bedroom.