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  • On the American side, Bin Laden's death might plausibly stoke desires to quit Afghanistan and Iraq which draws considerable support from the public's ignorant conflation of Bin Laden and Saddam asap, i.e. the desperado's dead, the job's done, to hell with long-term geopolitics!

    Alive or Dead? Steven Barnes 2009

  • This is the time where you have to walk away from the desperado's lest they take you down with them

    Stimulus scams prey on victims' desperation 2009

  • It was lame the first 200 times desperado's like you spewed it, so just imagine how flimsy it is now?

    Report: Hillary Largely Skipping South Carolina, Leaving The State To Bill 2009

  • On the American side, Bin Laden's death might plausibly stoke desires to quit Afghanistan and Iraq which draws considerable support from the public's ignorant conflation of Bin Laden and Saddam asap, i.e. the desperado's dead, the job's done, to hell with long-term geopolitics!

    Alive or Dead? Steven Barnes 2009

  • Instead he found his fame steadily eclipsed by his infamy, having stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, nearly to death and having used the New York Review of Books to launch a campaign for the release of a killer prisoner, Jack Henry Abbott, on grounds that the desperado's writing talent must be uncaged.

    A Boy's Life 2007

  • "But still," he continued, placing his hand in his breast, "the sight of the casket which you have brought to me is a greater shock than the desperado's pistol presented at your head was to you."

    A Queen's Error Henry Curties

  • The rage for new names especially, -- names which do not adorn the sacred page, nor carry us back to the times and faith of our fathers, but which have gained notoriety in the world of fiction, and associate us with the lover's affrays and with the desperado's feats, -- these are the names which Christian parents too often seek with avidity for their children.

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • Electric torches held by other detectives put the desperado's prone figure in an arc of light.

    Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

  • As he saw the light of recollection appear in the desperado's dark face, he struggled to speak the words that had been dammed up so long:

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

  • The auburn-haired Texan did not go with her, but with a slouched hat drawn over his head, and a Mexican blanket over his shoulders, stood back in a corner, unobserved, to hear Bill's words when he came to, and to see what next would appear on the desperado's programme.

    Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline

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