desperadoes

• Elder Perry Bradley left Carthage, Leek County, Mississippi, in January, 1880, and testifies to the following facts In October, 1879, twenty-five or thirty masked men went into Peter Watson's house, and took him from his bed, amid screams of 'murder' from his wife and seven children; but the only reply the wife and children received at the hands of the desperadoes was a beating. —  A Woman's Life-Work
• In the role of desperadoes, they held guns to the heads of innocent people. —  Omni: November 1994
• Haraldsen had picked off one of the desperadoes, and had fought with D'Ingraville on the cliff-top to the latter's doom. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
• This force was raised in that year by a number of desperadoes from the German Army who refused to be bound by the Versailles Treaty and regarded Philip Scheide-mann, who signed it, as a traitor. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
• Unfortunately, the desperadoes are hot on their heels and an insanely dramatic finale is essential to bring all safely home again. —  Analog SFF, September 2006

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