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Meanings of hire bravo in English

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Usage of hire bravo in English
1
The active policy remains-say, assassination by the knife of a hired bravo?
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
2
Then-" Ishouldneed no hired bravo to kill my lover if he forsook me!"
The Elixir of Life
3
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.
Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
4
Even here there are hired bravos.
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
5
Will he meet me on the Continent and settle our quarrel like a gentleman, not like a hired bravo?
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
6
It was for this satire, the joint composition of Dryden and Sheffield, that Rochester hired bravoes to cudgel Dryden.]
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 / With Life, Critica...
7
Conceive my fury when I recognized my own hired bravo, Antonio, who must have betrayed me, and remained instead of the prince.
Prince Eugene and His Times
8
But we may give the same praise to the hired bravo who goes through with truth and courage the task which he has undertaken.
Orley Farm
9
According to the servants of the de Paulmy household that I interviewed, he hired bravos to waylay the man and crop his nose and ears.
The Oracle Glass