Posse's quarry

Usage examples of outlaws.

All Angels wear this patch, as do most other outlaws, and all it means is that they are proud to be part of the alleged one percent of bike riders whom the American Motorcycle Association refuses to claim.

Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws -- riding, loafing, plotting, and eventually being stomped.

Depending on the weather and how many long-distance calls are made the week before, anywhere from two hundred to a thousand outlaws will show up, half of them already drunk by the time they get there.

As one of the trade magazines noted, that left a lot of outlaws unaccounted for.

Side roads were blocked by state troopers while dozens of helmeted deputies -- many from neighboring counties -- ran the outlaws through the gauntlet.

Routine police harassment had made it impossible for the outlaws to even wear their colors in any city except Oakland.

They already had one Chinese member, a mechanic for Harley-Davidson, but he was a quiet, dependable type and nothing like Ping-Pong, who made the outlaws nervous.

When the bars closed at two, five of the outlaws came over to my apartment for an all-night drinking bout.

After seven years of being virtually ignored by the press, the East Bay outlaws were more curious than wary -- except among the newer arrivals, especially those from Berdoo.

At the end of 1964 perhaps two thirds of the outlaws were working, but a year later the figure was down to about one third.

There were others who tried to put the outlaws onto some loot: a San Francisco journalist who knew the Angels was contacted by a man from one of the TV networks who wanted to be on hand with a camera crew the next time the outlaws ripped up a town.

The combined testimony of 104 police departments is proof enough that the outlaws are unable to enforce their savage codes on any level of society but their own.

The outlaws are very respectful of power, even if they have to create their own image of it.

Thieves, outlaws and the like, now, they are no braver than you, and most times less brave.

They had brought it off, and for the time at least the outlaws would be unable to leave.