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Example sentences for "greasers"

  • I drove by Springfield yesterday and it sure looked funny all the buildings down but of coarse it is worth it we have to keep the greasers in their place.

  • We do not have much trouble with the greasers here they keep to theirselves it is just a question of us outnumbering them and staking out the best places for the Americans.

  • The greasers are spreadin' on us, some goin' down below Yaqui, others movin' up for that high ridge.

  • He had a gun, but for all I can see the Greasers out there are unarmed.

  • But maybe there'll be Greasers with a gun or two.

  • Maybe the crazy Greasers are firing on our camp.

  • I'll ride him down into the valley an' pull the greasers out in the open.

  • Some Greasers were tryin' to head them round an' chase them back across the line.

  • Swore he'd killed seventeen Greasers breakin' through the rebel line round the mine where he an' other Americans were corralled.

  • Half the time these crazy Greasers are on one side, then on the other.

  • But Greasers have got us skinned on handlin' hosses.

  • The whole caboodle of Greasers on both sides belong to the class in sympathy with the rebels, the class that secretly respects men like Rojas, and hates an aristocrat like Mercedes.

  • But you're responsible for him, and you'll have trouble keeping him from massacring all the Greasers in Forlorn River.

  • But Jim isn't as well acquainted with Greasers as I am.

  • Laddy, from the looks of that trail the Greasers are having trouble with the horses.

  • Then me an' the Greasers had a little game of hide an' seek in the cactus.

  • Those Greasers out there with the cartridge belts crossed over their breasts--they are rebels.

  • All coons look alike to me--Greasers also.

  • I've been bossing Greasers and Italians and was forced to learn their language to get results, and now I want to speak my mother tongue to my old friends.

  • And I reckon I'll have to stay with you to pack you home after the greasers have shot you up.

  • She may be a Christian and all you say, Dick, but she don't run a Sunday school on her ranch and train these young greasers proper.

  • All talking with their hands, the way greasers do.

  • Didn't I tell you that you can't bat these greasers over the head the way you can the Poles in the mines?

  • But that's no set-back to them Greasers when they're out to construct mescal.

  • He'll wipe old Santa Anna out And put the greasers all to rout, Way down in Mexico.

  • We'll take the greasers now in hand And drive 'em in the Rio Grande, Way down in Mexico.

  • BILLY THE KID Billy was a bad man And carried a big gun, He was always after Greasers And kept 'em on the run.

  • Do any of yo' greasers speak our language?

  • I sent some Holy Crawss greasers to feed them liquor, games, and music--'specially music.

  • The Dook's had nothing but greasers working for him, and that's rough on us white men, but still he's surely good.

  • Lord, master, if we'd had five hundred thousand greasers there it would have been all the same.

  • Bart knew they could do nothing, and just then he saw that the Mexican greasers had left the cattle, and were coming at full speed as hard as they could run towards the shelter of the rock.

  • It was my fault; and the greasers ran away?

  • Hadn't we better stop and drive them back, Beaver, and let the greasers carry away the fish?

  • It strikes me that the Greasers mistook Fremont for Nestor.

  • But why should the Greasers want to capture Ned Nestor?

  • I recon, now, that the Greasers caught him.

  • Did you think they were Greasers because they wore the ragged clothes over their good ones?

  • You don't look like Greasers to me," he said.

  • Can't abide the sea, greasers can't, sah.

  • But them greasers is having tough times," he grinned.

  • According to my way of thinking, those greasers just lured him away from here, so that they could have easy access to the specie room.

  • Now then for a monkey wrench and then we are all ready to give those greasers the surprise of their lives in case they try an attack upon this side of the stockade.

  • But, in the moment of defeat at the hands of the regulars, the miserable greasers turned on me as a gringo.

  • I've got them Greasers buffaloed, anyhow, and Jasp knows if he plugs me when I'm unarmed it'll be a sure shot for the pen.

  • He jumped down and run when I come up and jist as we was hotfoot after him we run spang into three thousand head of sheep, drifting down from the pass, and six greasers and a white man in the rear with carbeens.

  • I'll bet ye some of them Greasers has seen a ghost.

  • The only real gambler outside of greasers we ever had here was Bill, an' I presume Bill is burnin' now.

  • Some greasers has sense, an' when it comes to thievin' they're shore cute.

  • An' as I get it he run across a gang of greasers with some gringo prisoners.

  • When I dropped into Benson's there wasn't nobody there but Jackrabbit an' some greasers he was startin' to work.

  • But we sent got any reason to believe this robber who murdered the greasers is a greaser himself.

  • The jobs have been too well done, too surely covered, to be the work of greasers or ordinary outlaws.

  • I wish we had, sir; those Greasers are worse than no guards at all.

  • Those Greasers swapped it onto an apparejo while we were all running for Harvey's daughters.

  • Those Greasers have sharp eyes, and one look at your face would convince them that we'd lost our grip or were in for a funeral.

  • It was characteristic of his nationality that he regarded the greasers with contempt, and that he joined the two gentlemen as if he belonged to their grade and social rank.

  • The greasers fell back and grouped about the door.

  • The greasers stood round the body of the bear, and the English servant was giving directions for skinning the beast.

  • The greasers tried the casks and examined the bottles.

  • Before I knew what had happened two of the greasers grabbed me around the throat so I couldn't holler, and two others pulled off my coat, which they threw from the train.

  • The cold, swift-rushing night wind blew keenly against us, making the teeth of some of the greasers chatter.

  • The greasers jabbered among themselves about me, but what they said I could not understand, for I don't understand Spanish.

  • The Greasers * paid for Bent's scalp, they tell me.

  • Tell the old coon then to quit that, and make them darned greasers clear out of the lodge, and pock some corn and shucks here for the animals, for they're nigh give out.

  • I'm damned if those four Greasers didn't beat me back to Jonesville.

  • And believe me, them Greasers took to the ditch.

  • Those Greasers are filling their jails with our people--rounding 'em up for the day of the big break--and the State Department knows it.

  • Why, one morning I rode into Jonesville in time to see four Greasers walkin' down the main street with feed-sacks over their shoulders.

  • If beef got scarce, them Greasers would steal the dogs and eat 'em.

  • I will sure get even with the Greasers for this, and I will kill a Señor and get another pair of breeches, or bust.

  • I am one of Jack Hays’ Rangers and I want that fellow’s breeches over there, as the Greasers have stolen mine from me.

  • You remember them two Greasers who shot that cowboy down to Rio Grande City, an' was put in jail for it, don't you?

  • When I asked him why he hadn't mounted and dug out as soon as we left, he said that that wouldn't have been safe, for he might have run right in among the Greasers before he knew it.

  • When I was a prisoner among the Greasers he gave me advice that assisted me in making my escape, and why should I not treat him kindly?

  • He gave those Greasers the slip, secured a berth as cub pilot on a Mississippi River steamer, and that was where I found him.

  • The Greasers are attacking the squatter," he exclaimed; and he was quite as much astonished to be called upon to say it as the troopers were to hear it.

  • At last he makes an alcy bet of fifty dollars on the queen; what the Greasers calls the "hoss.

  • Them Greasers is on the gamble bigger'n wolves, an' they crowds up plenty gleeful to see us take a gambler's chance for our lives.

  • I'll do my best to be in at the death, and God help those greasers if I get them under my guns.

  • He reminds me a whole lot of a bull-pup chained with a corral-ful of cats when there's Greasers around.

  • You can fool them Greasers easy if you looks like that.

  • Greasers are all cowards, any--" "You lie!

  • If I can get sight of one of them Greasers I'll find out where they are," Red growled.

  • It was th' Greasers that busted up th' game.

  • I came to tell you to keep yore Greasers an' yore cows on yore own side, that's whatever.

  • But if them other Greasers had been like this one here I reckon you wouldn't 'a lost nothing by having 'em.

  • I don't like th' Greasers he's saddled us with," Cavalry remarked.

  • Those greasers must be crazy," exclaimed Ralph, gazing at what seemed a suicidal act.

  • You see, I didn't know whether those greasers would catch me or not, so I concluded the best thing to do would be to take no chances, and hide it.

  • These greasers can think up some great ways to make a feller change his mind.

  • But the greasers cut us off, and we're of more use here, even as out of the way as we are, than we would be in Black Ramon's clutches.

  • These greasers have got a hide as tough as Old Scratch himself.

  • These greasers are no fools, and in a few minutes they'll realize that we've taken to the water, and be along the bank after us.


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