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Examples
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Plus, deyz chik-magnitz, an ders a LOT uv desprit geex owt der!
Ur computr needs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I mean, such a important job that affects so many lifes should not be done while u is distracted answering letters from desprit kittehs.
…an’ shin bone’s - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Blanche, near whom he sate as he told this story, and who adored les hommes desprit, burst out laughing, and called him such an odd, droll creature.
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Lijah, he kinda desprit wid dis, an 'so dat night he don' go to bed but sit up an 'hide in de ba'n.
The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo
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Most all the people living on these here bottoms are peaceable and law-abiding and it is too bad that a few desprit villians should keep the county in a state of terror and alarm.
The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick
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"I saw him holdin 'pretty desprit like t' his saddle."
The Boy Ranchers on the Trail Willard F. Baker
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We's huntin 'a desprit convict that got loose from the camp a week back, by name Pete Smith.
Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne
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_ (Coughs.) _ Doctor, do you think you can give me anything that will relieve this desprit pain I have in my side?
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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"Did ye see ever a desprit, poachin 'wagabone run down this' ere lane, sir?" he inquired.
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Now the vorst of all these rogues vos a cove called Black Dan, a thieving, murdering, desprit wagabone as vere ewcntually 'ung sky-'igh on Pembury' Ill --"
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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