It was the custom of these fellows to gather about them a little army of rough-and-ready resolutes like themselves, whom they maintained at their cost, and whose services they were always prepared to sell to any person or state that was willing to pay the captain's price for their aid.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
He got round him from among the idle lads of the town "a list of lawless resolutes," and, like David, made himself a captain over them for the purpose of levying a kind of guerilla warfare upon the shopkeepers of the little town, and making them pay tribute for the sanctity of their windows.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
I felt that Douglas was destined to drive these lawless resolutes into defeat and become President.
"Children of the Market Place"
Edgar Lee Masters