All 14 Uses of
despair
in
Sons and Lovers
- When, in despair, she had ceased to tap, she saw him stir, then lift his face blindly.†
Chpt 1.1
- Indeed, as the days drew near for his departure, her heart began to close and grow dreary with despair.†
Chpt 1.3
- He was pale, and his rugged face, that used to be so perfectly careless and laughing, was stamped with conflict and despair.†
Chpt 1.6
- But she saw the despair on his face.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Why don't you like her, mother?" he cried in despair.†
Chpt 2.8
- "It looks a great deal like it," she said, half putting aside her despair.†
Chpt 2.8
- Then he talked to her of his hopes and despairs, and his whole soul seemed to lie bare before her.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- "No," she said, taking his head in her arms and rocking in despair.†
Chpt 2.11
- There was a tiredness and despair on his face that made her hate him, because it hurt her.†
Chpt 2.13
- And being in such a state of soul himself, he felt an almost painful nearness to Dawes, who was suffering and despairing, too.†
Chpt 2.14
- That was his despair wanting to go after her.†
Chpt 2.15
- In despair he thought of Miriam.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- He lay feeling his despair come up again.†
Chpt 2.15
- The despairing doggedness in his tone made her go on her knees on the rug before the fire, very near to him.†
Chpt 2.15
Definitions:
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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)
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(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress