The kind of persons who excite or give signal to :w:Revolutions of 1848|such revolutions — students, young men of letters …, or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
1918, (w), (w), Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
Surely this was the face of a desperado.
puhekieltä A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetualcheck.