stick-at-nothing

I could see, of course, that J.B. was just the man for the task in hand - if anyone could bring Elspeth off, more or less undamaged, it was probably he, for he seemed to be the same kind of desperate, stick-at-nothing adventurer I'd known in Afghanistan - wild men like Georgie Broadfoot and Sekundar Burnes.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

'Here's a new brother, regularly put down in black and white by Muster Gashford; a credit to the cause; one of the stick-at-nothing sort; one arter my own heart.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

Even such stick-at-nothing enthusiasts as Parson, Bosher, and Co., couldn't make a case of it, and were forced to admit with deep mortification that the glory had departed from Parrett's, at any rate for a season.

The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

'Here's a new brother, regularly put down in black and white by Muster Gashford; a credit to the cause; one of the stick-at-nothing sort; one arter my own heart.

Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens 1841

-- the small head, the [_here is drawn a long narrow eye_] long Eye, -- that sort of peering curve, the wicked Italian mischief! the stick-at-nothing, Herodias'-daughter kind of grace.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

"stick-at-nothing" spirit, he felt constrained to obey, but did so, nevertheless, with an air of defiant ferocity which relieved his feelings to some extent.

The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Arthur Twidle 1859

Not only a gang, but a desperate gang, a dangerous, stick-at-nothing gang. "

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

He was seen hanging about this part of the world for years, spying into everybody's business: but I am the only one who has seen through him from the first -- contemptible, double-faced, stick-at-nothing, dangerous fellow. "

Victory Joseph Conrad 1890

"Here's a new brother, regularly put down in black and white by Muster Gashford; a credit to the cause; one of the stick-at-nothing sort; one arter my own heart.

Barnaby Rudge 1840