All 6 Uses of
despair
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- …the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on…†
Chpt 1.1
- Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog.†
Chpt 2.11
- He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.†
Chpt 2.13
- If the suddenness of her calamity, and the whirling wheels of the time, had stunned the Doctor's daughter into awaiting the result in idle despair, it would but have been with her as it was with many.†
Chpt 3.5
- "'There is prodigious strength,' I answered him, 'in sorrow and despair.'†
Chpt 3.10 *
- Some, seated with drooping heads, are sunk in silent despair; again, there are some so heedful of their looks that they cast upon the multitude such glances as they have seen in theatres, and in pictures.†
Chpt 3.15
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)