All 10 Uses of
despair
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "But why?" he persisted, standing still at last in despair of ever reaching her, and facing over the bush.†
Chpt 4-6
- This was recognized by all as the conclusion of some gloomy speech which had been expressed in thought alone during the shake of the head; Henery meanwhile retained several marks of despair upon his face, to imply that they would be required for use again directly he should go on speaking.†
Chpt 13-15
- Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.†
Chpt 19-21
- Gabriel settled into a despairing attitude of patience, and Cainy went on:— "And there were great large houses, and more people all the week long than at Weatherbury club-walking on White Tuesdays.†
Chpt 31-33
- Just as that imperceptible motion which appears like stillness is infinitely divided in its properties from stillness itself, so had his hope undistinguishable from despair differed from despair indeed.†
Chpt 34-36
- Just as that imperceptible motion which appears like stillness is infinitely divided in its properties from stillness itself, so had his hope undistinguishable from despair differed from despair indeed.†
Chpt 34-36
- The horse bore him away, and the very step of the animal seemed significant of dogged despair.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Her pride was indeed brought low by despairing discoveries of her spoliation by marriage with a less pure nature than her own.†
Chpt 40-42
- At these words there arose from Bathsheba's lips a long, low cry of measureless despair and indignation, such a wail of anguish as had never before been heard within those old-inhabited walls.†
Chpt 43-45
- When Bathsheba had cried out in her husband's grasp, Boldwood's face of gnashing despair had changed.†
Chpt 52-54
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)