desperater

Example Sentences

• "“But I never thought I’d be arrested on such a charge as that.” / “Somethin’ a little desperater than that, hey?” Berdan interrogated with unexpected quickness."
• "‘Madam,’ I says pretty severe, ‘don’t trifle with me. I’m a desperate man, and my friend here is even desperater than what I am. Remember you are alone, and at our mercy and—’"
• "You see, it’s a mighty responsible position I’ve got—the United States government pays me 12 1-2 cents for every trip I make with this bunch of mail, and I guess they know I’m not the kind of person to be trifled with. There’s desperate characters about sometimes, but I’m desperater than any of them, especially when I’m a leetle scared."
• "Now desperate Joe Engel, who sometimes can get desperater than anybody, is interested in Jesse Levan, who butchered first base in the name of the Crackers last spring."
• "He was moody and that moodiness carried over into his music, and even though we all knew that fame was a whore, Harry thought she was a lover, that was his style, elegance in poverty, man, he was desperater than Lady, too bad he didn’t have the talent."
• "Then I stopped. Just stopped. This feeling came over me, like a thrown bucket of water. I wasn’t tired, I wasn’t any desperater than I’d been the minute before. I just stopped."