Desperater

“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.

The party starts in four minutes and you’re desperater than desperate. Simply stick a bunch of sticky notes on your clothes and go as the half-man/half-presentation known as Sticky Note Man.

Finally, they got desperater than they could stand and they fought back and, when it was over, hundreds of Santee Sioux was taken prisoner and put straight on trial by the army without no lawyers nor jury, not even no one to translate for them so they could know what everyone was yattering about. […] If them two turned up here at the same time, I was in even more desperater trouble, if that was possible.