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despair as in: she felt despair
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Don't give in to despair.
despair = a feeling of hopelessness
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In a state of despair, she jumped from the burning window--escaping the flames only to plunge to her death.
despair = a feeling of hopelessness or distress
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She rescued me from despair.
despair = hopelessness or distress
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I was in deep despair when she introduced me to a better way to live.
despair = hopelessness
- She was in a state of constant despair for the last year of her life.
- The old man, Uchendu, saw clearly that Okonkwo had yielded to despair and he was greatly troubled. (source)
- It was the bitter smell of despair. Even if he could somehow climb Big Thumb, he knew he wouldn't find water. (source)
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Despair settled like a stone in the pit of Meg's stomach.
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despair = distress
- I did not see Frau Holtzapfel laid out flat on Himmel Street, her arms out wide, her screaming face in total despair. (source)
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She fell to her knees and sank into a dark hole of despair and disbelief.
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despair = feeling of hopelessness or distress
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But each time a new group of kids shows up and Lev isn't among them, a sense of despair worms its way through Connor's gut.
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despair = distress (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
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Steam was billowing from under the crumpled hood; Hedwig was shrieking in terror; a golf-ball-size lump was throbbing on Harry's head where he had hit the windshield; and to his right, Ron let out a low, despairing groan.
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despairing = distressed
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And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker.
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despair = hopelessness
- He shared few memories, and though the other two encouraged him, he couldn't imagine a future. ... Given the dismal record of raft-bound men, Mac's despair was reasonable. (source)
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For a moment he froze, consumed with despair.
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness
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They ate it by the handfuls, saying they wouldn't dream of sitting with the dead without eating seeds. Seeds kept the living from despair, they explained.
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness or distress
- In despair, Curly headed for the portable latrines. (source)
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Grace's despair exploded in anger.
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Don't listen to words of despair, Mattie.
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"I didn't get any pass," he groaned; with the sliding despair of his face and his clenched hands, that's what it was; a groan.
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It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
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They all knew that this haughty man was on his way to meet with their council, and that before night fell he would hold their very lives in his hand. Resignation and despair settled over the household that evening, as though...
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despair = hopelessness
- And the despair filled him again. (source)
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My writing has raised me somewhat from "the depths of despair."
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He didn't know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. ...personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast ... turmoil of a nation. That Big God howled like a hot wind... Then Small God... Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence … laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away cheerfully.
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despair = distress (at inability to fix a bad situation)
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Sometimes she gave up in despair and she just lay weeping in the pitch darkness.
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despair = hopelessness
- Maybe this was a hallucination being brought on by all his grief and despair. (source)
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But these thoughts led to such despair that I soon learned not to give in to them.
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness or distress
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The failed uprising plunged the whole country into despair again.
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness
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Gerald hung up in despair.
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despair = hopelessness
- Her voice was ragged with despair. (source)
- And a train arrives at an hour of despair. (source)
- Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. (source)
- Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. (source)
- I oskillate (mispronounces oscillate) between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam. (source)
- And he began to see that there might be some sense in that last line about getting your heart's desire and getting despair along with it. (source)
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The chaplain sagged limply beneath the mountainous weight of his despair.
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...for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
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Each time, he'd cycle through feelings of anger, regret, longing, hope, despair, longing, anger, regret.
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness
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I was convinced we must care about people; we must reach out to help them in their despair.
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She pressed the back of her hand to her eyes, trying to dam the outbreak of a despair she had not permitted herself to acknowledge; she had not known the extent of it, nor how little of her endurance the quest had left her.
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despair = hopelessness
- The passage from hope to despair (source)
- Oh, I have seen plenty since and have felt the shattering waves of violence and despair and confusion. (source)
- He spat out the word with the deepest despair I have ever heard in a human voice. (source)
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(Fanfare, shorter but nearer) NORFOLK (Despairing) Oh, my God.
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despairing = with distress or without hope
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But at this moment the general despair broke down into a multitude of individual quarrels.
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despair = desperation
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And then, in a voice of despair, "Oh, Linda, forgive me."
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He was worried now — there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters.
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despair = hopelessness and distress
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Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation.
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despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
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First the look of despair faded out; then came a faint flush of hope; here eyes grew deep and bright as morning stars.
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They too are breathing now with a deep groaning sound; looking back once, their gaze sweeps across us with in their eyes a wild, sad, profound and despairing quality as though they had already seen in the thick water the shape of the disaster which they could not speak and we could not see.
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despairing = hopeless
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He was in despair.
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It was then that Bagheera lifted up his dripping chin, and in despair gave the Snake's Call for protection—"We be of one blood, ye and I"—for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute.
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despair = distress
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it was pitiful to see her so brave and yet so sorrowful, and in such a depth of despair.
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despair = hopelessness
- After such exaltation, his sudden reward was radical gloom, a hangover that bordered on despair. (source)
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I had already experienced it several times, and always in periods of utmost despair.
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For those near to her the despair was fearful to behold. She was convinced that her life was over, her life and children's.
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"Oh, don't!" said Phyllis, in despair; "this is truly dreadful!"
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The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued:
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To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
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despair = hopelessness
- So for two weeks more Jurgis fought with the demon of despair. (source)
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It seemed strange that ... the feeling which gave one of them such happiness should bring the other such despair.
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despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
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GAEV. [In despair] My sister, my sister. ...
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The men in blue were intent with the despair of their circumstances and they seized upon the revenge to be had at close range.
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despair = hopelessness
- I tried to puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation. (source)
- They went toward the Seine in despair, shivering with cold. (source)
- Breathless and in despair he fell on his back, expecting death to come immediately. (source)
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you can imagine what a state of despair he will be in when he wakens and misses the manuscript.
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despair = distress (at inability to fix a bad situation)
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Go, brave heart, and save me from despair.'
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despair = a feeling of hopelessness
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With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon, as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave.
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And she wrung her hands in despair.
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The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
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I saw that some ten or twelve vibrations would bring the steel in actual contact with my robe, and with this observation there suddenly came over my spirit all the keen, collected calmness of despair.
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despair = distressed (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
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At last my mother gave up, in despair.
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You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.
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despair = hopelessness
- Despair is in my heart. (source)
- ...must show neither surprise nor despair, (source)
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The madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this outburst.
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Still he did not see this, and he climbed down full of despair.
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They had just noticed this when a cry of despair broke from every animal's throat.
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despair = distress
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his face suffused with fury and despair.
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When the boulder began to slip and the animals cried out in despair at finding themselves dragged down the hill, it was always Boxer who strained himself against the rope and brought the boulder to a stop.
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All at once there came a bloodcurdling shriek, filled with hatred and despair. Gollum was defeated. He dared go no further.
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"And then it'll be about two years more before you can ride."
Jody cried out in despair, "I'll be grown up." (source)despair = distress (at inability to fix a bad situation)
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The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it--all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition.
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despair = hopelessness
- And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. (source)
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He heard also a deep groan of despair.
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despair = desperation
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There is, of course, always the chance, not of chloroforming the shame, but of aggravating it and producing Despair.
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despair = hopelessness
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They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair.
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That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.
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despair = hopelessness
- Sometimes I am almost in despair. (source)
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In despair and not knowing what else to do, poor little Bilbo caught hold of it and was pushed over the edge with it.
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It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell.
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despair = desperation
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The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act.
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despair = distress
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.
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despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- Then they knew that Gandalf was going to leave them at the very edge of Mirkwood, and they were in despair. (source)
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If, on the other hand, by steady and cool-headed application here and now you can finally secure his soul, he will then be yours forever--a brim-full living chalice of despair and horror and astonishment which you can raise to your lips as often as you please.
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despair = hopelessness
- It seems to me that the end which I now carry alone has no weight, as though it coasts like a rushing straw upon the furious tide of Jewel's despair. (source)
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The day after the battle with the spiders Bilbo and the dwarves made one last despairing effort to find a way out before they died of hunger and thirst.
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despairing = urgently needed (without knowing how to improve a bad situation)
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despair as in: do not despair
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Don't despair. Next year will be better.
despair = lose hope
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- Don't despair--help is on the way!
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I never despaired and eventually I found a good job.
despaired = lost hope
- She despaired that anyone would believe her.
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My child, do not despair.
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despair = give up hope
- His father, Unoka, who was then an ailing man, had said to him during that terrible harvest month: "Do not despair." (source)
- But as a reader, I did not despair. (source)
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Nine hours after that bus rolled over, as all those stretchers were being carried up the hill, and everyone despairing—there was her hand coming up out of the window and everyone was shouting because there it was, a moving hand.
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despairing = losing hope
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I would have despaired of the hopelessness and confusion.
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despaired = lost hope
- Ender despaired. (source)
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With all that, why should I despair?
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despair = give up hope
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- "You mustn't despair!" cried Mr Wonka. "Nothing is impossible!" (source)
- We mustn't despair. (source)
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No matter how many times he signed one, it always came back for still another signature, and he began to despair of ever being free of any of them.
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despair = lose hope
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'Don't despair!' said Strider.
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despair = give up hope
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The stable hands, despairing of getting help to the track fast enough, fetched the only transportation on hand, a little runabout truck that the track starter used to motor around the course.
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despairing = losing hope
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Sometimes, I despair.
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despair = lose hope or feel distress
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He would not give up the search for her plane, when all others had long since despaired, as he would not give up his mills, as he would not give up any goal he had chosen if a single chance was left.
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despaired = lost hope
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In that knowledge, despair and die!
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despair = give up hope
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He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her.
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despaired = lost hope
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He knew he was in the grip of the unforgivable sin, despair.
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despair = giving up hope
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Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.
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despair = give up hope
- But we need not despair. (source)
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"He's fallen down in a fit, more likely," said Phyllis, "all human aid despaired of."
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despaired = lost hope
- Now he thought she understood him, and feared; now he was sure she did not, and despaired. (source)
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It is said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.
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despaired = thought hopeless
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Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
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despairing = without hope
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Do not despair.
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despair = give up hope
- I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. (source)
- Wanderers in the shadowed land despair not! (source)
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I, too, despaired at last, and I began my homeward journey.
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despaired = lost hope
- They despaired, until I returned and told them that the drift was little wider than a wall. (source)
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What's so difficult about my personality is that I scold and curse myself much more than anyone else does; if Mother adds her advice, the pile of sermons becomes so thick that I despair of ever getting through them.
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despair = give up hope
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Once, tired of writing and rewriting until Peter was satisfied, Val despaired and said, "Write it yourself, then!"
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despaired = lost hope
- He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. (source)
- Suddenly, he knew that this was the goal of his restless hours, this was the pleasure he had despaired of finding, this was the celebration he had wanted. (source)
- There we had rumour of him, and we guess that he dwelt there long in the dark hills; but we never found him, and at last I despaired. (source)
- Even so they often despaired of getting their pony up, or indeed of finding a path for themselves, burdened as they were. (source)
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But I fear ... he knows that Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.
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despair = giving up hope
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There is no need to despair; hundreds of these adult converts have been reclaimed after a I brief sojourn in the Enemy's camp and are now with us.
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despair = give up hope
- It all depends on whether your man is of the desponding type who can be tempted to despair, or of the wishful-thinking type who can be assured that all is well. (source)
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It is after men have given in to the irremediable, after they have despaired of relief and ceased to think even a half-hour ahead, that the dangers of humbled and gentle weariness begin.
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despaired = lost hope
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But, my child, do not despair, this knowledge came to him just too late!
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despair = give up hope
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I had not despaired, nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning if set free.
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despaired = lost hope
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I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair.
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despair = give up hope
- I resolved, at least, not to despair, but in every way to fit myself for an interview with them which would decide my fate. (source)
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Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me.
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despair = lose hope
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She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair. (source)despair = give up hope
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I should have been burnt, but you may remember it rained exceedingly hard when they were going to roast me; the storm was so violent that they despaired of lighting the fire, so I was hanged because they could do no better.
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despaired = lost hope
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He despaired at parting from so good a master, who had become his intimate friend; but the pleasure of serving him prevailed over the pain of leaving him.
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despaired = felt bad
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despair as in: she was the despair of the team
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Conditions that would have been the despair of most people, only served to motivate her.
despair = thing that causes hopelessness
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- Her schizophrenia and refusal to take medication is the despair of her parents.
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The answers to these prayers seemed often to come in the middle of the night: many mornings I would climb onto my stool to find the watch that we had left in a hundred despairing pieces fitted together and ticking merrily.
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despairing = causing hopelessness or great distress
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It was the despair of Lieutenant Scheisskopf's life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires to the titanic struggles for the unattainable in which noble man could become heroically engaged.
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despair = something that causes hopelessness or distress
- If she had been six she would have been the despair of her parents. (source)
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The Church of England, that finest flower of our Island genius for compromise; that system, peculiar to these shores, the despair of foreign observers, which deflects the torrents of religious passion down the canals of moderation.
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despair = something that causes hopelessness or great distress
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When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene — his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle." over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
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despairing = causing distress and loss of hope
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It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs.
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despairs = things that cause hopelessness
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After supper, urged perhaps by the impish humour which was the despair of his friends in Cambridge, Mass., he often asked Philip and Hayward to come in for a chat.
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despair = something that causes hopelessness or distress
- These "new styles" were the despair of our young nieces, who were always trying to get us into brighter colors, shorter skirts, and lower necklines. (source)
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- Even from this distance she read despair in his posture.† (source)
- The year after my mom died, I spent a lot of time wallowing in selfpity and despair.† (source)
- They sat down at the foot of the wall, overcome by a profound despair.† (source)
- Edgar boarded the school bus in despair.† (source)
- We saw her look down at her stomach in despair.† (source)
- All I was feeling was despair.† (source)
- The words used to describe it—despair, fear, anxiety, obsession—do so little to communicate it.† (source)
- Their betrayal was based only on their despair and hatred of the human race.† (source)
- Just a few days before, it was shining like a halo of salvation, but now it had become a beacon of despair.† (source)
- They were roles for women who had known the bitterness of joy and the sweetness of despair.† (source)
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- I should never despair, for God had a plan.† (source)
- As he is starting to despair, an old man comes toward him in a small cart drawn by a single horse.† (source)
- Sam shook his head in feigned despair.† (source)
- Day after day, week after week, Cassie would erupt in fits of anger and despair, and we never knew quite what she would say or do next.† (source)
- What mattered was that Salva was on his own now He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole—a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness.† (source)
- Mary sat on the outdoor concrete steps with the officer standing over her, the two mirroring each other's despair and frustration.† (source)
- Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out.† (source)
- A plane roared in the distance, filling Eddie with a sudden, sickening wave of despair.† (source)
- When the days turned into weeks, Walter began to sink into deep despair.† (source)
- He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair.† (source)
- She read in his face that it had been a place of abasement, of degradation and despair.† (source)
- There was exhaustion and despair, and a lot of black humor—jokes about exploding catheter bags, other people's well-meaning idiocy, or drunken misadventures.† (source)
- It's the only thing that keeps us from despair when we look at what humans have done to the world.† (source)
- He was crushed with despair.† (source)
- They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them.† (source)
- Ever since the child had learned to walk he had been his mother's and father's despair and delight, for there never was such a boy for wandering, for climbing up things, for getting into and out of things.† (source)
- But it was evident that underneath their apparent complacency, Savannah's blacks were beset by an anguish and despair that ran so deep and expressed itself with such violence that it had made Savannah the murder capital of America.† (source)
- He clenched his teeth against the pain and despair.† (source)
- I wonder, but I don't despair.† (source)
- All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.† (source)
- The despair doesn't last.† (source)
- I grabbed her and shouted in her face and she kicked at me, and when I wouldn't let go and she couldn't force me to, she began to cry, just wordless howls of despair.† (source)
- Then, one night, he broke her arm, and after that, that was four years ago, he never touched her again, went through another change, into a kind of settled, sour despair.† (source)
- I closed my eyes in despair.† (source)
- Reynie, who had been watching Sticky in bleak despair, noted which button Mr. Curtain pressed.† (source)
- He leaned forward to shut the door, and the Baudelaire orphans were too overcome with despair to get a last glimpse of Mr. Poe.† (source)
- If she could eliminate this kind of uncertainty—when and by whom would you be touched a certain way again—you would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in Mae's chest.† (source)
- When after days a ship broke apart, or the pieces of it sank, or a salvage company gave up in despair after off-loading one twenty-fifth of its cargo, islanders watched blankly with their mouths hard-set and shook their heads once or twice.† (source)
- Doubt one minute, faith the next—sometimes inspired, sometimes in despair.† (source)
- I thought I heard the sighs of a wild, despairing woman.† (source)
- So he watched, in growing horror and despair, as Cain's fist slammed into her jaw.† (source)
- Jon despaired of me often enough, yet I grew into a good king.† (source)
- Yeah, it's nothing," Spencer said, and inexplicably felt an overwhelming wave of despair.† (source)
- Thinking that makes me sick with despair: There's no bottom to this crap.† (source)
- After a week of staring at my clock, waiting for midnight, I begin to despair.† (source)
- Something heavy with despair.† (source)
- First, disappointment and despair, then a rising bitterness.† (source)
- But to despair was to wish back for something already lost.† (source)
- I can feel the despair pouring out of him as he lifts me up and wraps my legs around his waist.† (source)
- And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.† (source)
- I felt as close to despair as I ever had in my life.† (source)
- Her rage, her loss, her despair.† (source)
- Hana must read the despair on my face.† (source)
- But after four hours of standing, Hana could no longer contain her despair.† (source)
- It was amazing to see the recovery Chencha had made, after the state of misery and despair in which she had left.† (source)
- They continue through this maze of despair.† (source)
- I sank into deeper despair.† (source)
- Both men collapsed onto their chairs in despair.† (source)
- Hit the squirrel over the head with a shovel?" said Flora's father in a squeaky, despairing voice.† (source)
- lie looked about him in despair.† (source)
- How can they be fourolds?" the man cried out in despair.† (source)
- Rameck reeled in despair.† (source)
- But his eyes, in the ruined face, were intelligent and despairing.† (source)
- It was despair.† (source)
- He urges him not to despair.† (source)
- He put it somewhere between indifference and despair.† (source)
- He didn't throw up his hands in despair.† (source)
- he asked, despairing.† (source)
- A sense of despair washed over me.† (source)
- He was too perfect, I realized with a piercing stab of despair.† (source)
- If I couldn't see her, then she couldn't see me; I let my jaw sag with frustration and despair, for it seemed I would never escape Hatsumomo.† (source)
- His voice was both violent and despairing.† (source)
- Elinor's voice was pouring rage and despair into the peaceful study.† (source)
- Booth wandered the streets in despair.† (source)
- A distressed look, tinged with fear, despair, disappointment.† (source)
- Grief and despair had ravaged it.† (source)
- He told of the hemorrhages in the night, of Dr Clark bleeding him and prescribing "exercise and good air," and of the ultimate religious and personal despair which had led Keats to demand his own epitaph be carved in stone as: "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."† (source)
- We were sitting around Ma's house in Ewing, all twelve siblings, doctors, professors all-the house as wild as it always was when we were little, our kids going crazy and our spouses numb, while Mommy's original dozen fell back into nutty behavioral patterns that would make a psychologist throw up his hands in despair-when someone shouted over the din, "Let's go to the movies!"† (source)
- "This is nice," she said, pointing to a large illustration that showed a group of men in various states of despair, holding their heads, lying on the floor, or huddling in corners.† (source)
- The cells babbled with the poignant tongues of despair licking the walls.† (source)
- Despairing and defeated, Mack slumped to the floor next to the bloodstain.† (source)
- "Some are born unstable, some are made unstable by their living conditions, but the result is the same: the dogs, instead of being a joy to their owners, are a worry, an expense, and often bring complete despair to an entire family," Woodhouse wrote.† (source)
- Raw emotion gripped Katherine—relief, sympathy, despair.† (source)
- Other characters have names like Faithful, Evangelist, and the Giant Despair.† (source)
- Man's feeling of alienation in the world creates a sense of despair, boredom, nausea, and absurdity.† (source)
- As I read the article I felt despair creeping over me.† (source)
- Now I felt despair beyond description.† (source)
- If Da5id weren't a hacker, Hiro would despair of his ever having enough brains to do anything.† (source)
- I will not describe his parents' despair.† (source)
- It was then that the Briarcrest biology teacher, Marilyn Beasley, came to Graves in despair.† (source)
- Lying still, she tried to expand her senses, but the blanket of malevolence and despair was too strong, and she found she couldn't use her magic.† (source)
- It was a terrible hopelessness and despair.† (source)
- And despair.† (source)
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was shattered, I was saved, I lost everything, I was given
everything else
something in me died, something in me was born, I only knew
the girl was gone
whoever I was, I would never be her again this is the way
the world ends not with a bang but a whimper
claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim
gratitude fury love despair hope hate
first green is gold but nothing green can stay
don't
try nothing
green
can
stay† (source)
- Surrounding it was a city of despair.† (source)
- I felt an unspeakable despair.† (source)
- She hovered somewhere between hope and total despair.† (source)
- The architects were stunned: "they gazed," Burnham said, "with a feeling almost of despair."† (source)
- It's been written off, shoved beyond public consciousness and left to wallow in its own lawlessness and despair.† (source)
- Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'† (source)
- She glanced at Gerald with brief despair, and moved on.† (source)
- MAP OF DESPAIR† (source)
- AFTER PRACTICE, LUMA wasn't despairing.† (source)
- Despair!† (source)
- I began to despair.† (source)
- Yet I read a sadness in his face, a look of despair.† (source)
- Desolation, despair, and depression.† (source)
- The death of Remedios had not produced the despair that he had feared.† (source)
- Blomkvist felt only despair.† (source)
- And then horns were honking, their ah-000gahs sounding like despairing geese.† (source)
- Rage and despair ripped through me.† (source)
- DESPAIR INHABITS THIS HOUSE.† (source)
- But Jessica had eyes only for the despair in Paul's face.† (source)
- The weeping became louder, more despairing.† (source)
- The memory of my youth was such a surprising relief from all the hatred and despair, blood and drugs that surrounded me.† (source)
- It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair.† (source)
- I cried in despair.† (source)
- Esteban had bouts of despair because Clara treated him with the same kindness she displayed toward everybody else.† (source)
- Will did not know whether to weep with joy or new despair.† (source)
- Inigo looked at Fezzik in despair.† (source)
- "Oh, Homer," Mom said in despair.† (source)
- I cover my face and grit my teeth as the tears fall, bearing the wave of despair like it is a fist, striking me.† (source)
- He said, "Do not be despair, young bahss.† (source)
- Just when I had given up all hope and had sunk to the lowest depth of despair, out of the white wall of driving sleet, my little dog came to me.† (source)
- Just exasperation and despair.† (source)
- They seemed to watch him with a kind of despairing, beseeching reproach.† (source)
- Caroline felt a rush of despair.† (source)
- It does at times reveal a certain despair over her present situation — a fact that is rather concerning.† (source)
- Ch'idzigyaak listened with despair.† (source)
- One moment you're at the peak of joy, the next you're on the brink of despair.† (source)
- You would never think, driving past the IBP plant in Lexington, with its colorful children's playground out front, with Wal-Mart and Burger King across the street, that a single, innocuous-looking building could be responsible for so much sudden change, hardship, and despair.† (source)
- I would not, under any circumstances, seem despairing or even disappointed to my captors.† (source)
- (She laughs joyously, having practically destroyed the apartment, and flings her arms up and lets them come down happily, slowly, reflectively, over her abdomen, aware for the first time perhaps that the life therein pulses with happiness and not despair) Lena† (source)
- Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair.† (source)
- The atmosphere in the shack in which they lived was despairing.† (source)
- She was weeping openly, her expression filled with despair.† (source)
- By the time she reached the creek, the fury Clarke had carried into the woods had been replaced by despair.† (source)
- With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.† (source)
- Mr. Moritz's novels are defined by their humor and compassion, and the hope they search for amid despair.† (source)
- I have seen the Nisei in anger, in exuberant spirits, enthusiasm and despair, in the quiet stillness of resignation or renunciation—I've worked beside them in canneries, on farms, in Red Cross groups—I've seen them in poverty and in luxury, in cabins and stuccoed residences, struggling for higher education on meager earnings, or cushioned through college by a parent's wealth—I've known them as mill hands, lumberjacks, clerks, dressmakers, stenos, domestic servants—I've watched them waltz and jitterbug, play baseball, tennis, rugby, golf, and Ping-Pong—I've known them in sickness and in health, at weddings and births and face to face with death.† (source)
- It was then, as we despaired, that I thought of Thomas Stone.† (source)
- The rest of the week, I flip-flop between total despair and simmering rage.† (source)
- Sometimes I despair.† (source)
- Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.† (source)
- But his despair is growing.† (source)
- It dies when the odors of hope, despair, lust, and caring are wiped out by the seasonal winds; when dust has settled into the cracks and scars, leveling their depths and discoloration—their reasons for being; when the spirit is trapped and fading in someone's memory.† (source)
- Yet despair was what he saw.† (source)
- Everybody could hear the helpless, cornered despair in McMurphy's voice.† (source)
- The smell in the streets—a mix of refuse, horse droppings, urine, and despair—is truly awful, and I'm afraid I might gag.† (source)
- He felt close to despair.† (source)
- but I think she must've been weighed down by sadness and despair before she weighed herself down with rocks.† (source)
- Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair.† (source)
- And Miro was plunged into despair.† (source)
- Not to mention poverty, despair, and hopelessness.† (source)
- In his despair he forgot his English.† (source)
- In her darkest moments of despair, she asked God again and again why Adam had been taken instead of her: the survivor's guilt of a military spouse.† (source)
- Or was it only despair?† (source)
- In such a narrowed world, in order to survive, you learn to contain your rage and your despair, and you try to re-create, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing.† (source)
- In the following weeks I walked around in a state of tightly leashed fury and despair.† (source)
- Miss Lydia looked at him in a sort of despair.† (source)
- In this country the sun shineth night and day; wherefore this was beyond the Valley of the Shadow of Death and also out of the reach of Giant Despair; neither could they from this place so much as see Doubting Castle.† (source)
- Helene puts her fingers over my mouth, her anger replaced with something like despair.† (source)
- My heart gave itself over to deep despair.† (source)
- I knew He sent His spirit on Sundays to the church, but after all that was a church and the people had had all day Saturday to shuffle off the cloak of work and the skin of despair.† (source)
- It went from a kind of desperate excitement to dark despair, in gentle slow motion.† (source)
- Verging on despair, Max gave the bell a final, furious pull.† (source)
- I never dreamed, I never would have dared dream, of the great joy and despair that it would open up to me.† (source)
- In a heartbeat Grandmother's tone changed from utter despair to cold vindictiveness.† (source)
- "I've never known despair and I don't think I ever will," he wrote me once.† (source)
- It's presumption or despair, I forget which, but a mortal sin.† (source)
- Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.† (source)
- Yossarian was limp with exhaustion, pain and despair when he finished.† (source)
- All shall love me and despair!† (source)
- At what he judged to be the middle of the fifth night, Mortenson felt a wave of blackness lapping at his feet, surging up to his knees, threatening to drown him in despair.† (source)
- I glance at the clock, antsy with despair.† (source)
- Every muscle in my face pulled down and I sucked in air in an attempt to wash away the despair.† (source)
- The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her, crossing the line and circling with her on the surface.† (source)
- At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject.† (source)
- Like a flood, despair swept through Tom's chest.† (source)
- Chapter Seventeen Hope and Despair The journey from the Cartographer's island to the Island at the Edge of the World was the most peaceful and least eventful passage they had experienced since the original voyage from London into the Archipelago.† (source)
- A familiar wave of despair floods over me and I close my eyes, trying to calm my throbbing head.† (source)
- Beside a sister one does not despair.† (source)
- Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?† (source)
- "Do not despair!" he said, struggling to smile.† (source)
- Grandad might have been overwhelmed by loss and despair, but he still had something to live for, someone who would need him even when his wife no longer knew who he was.† (source)
- Her chest, smaller than my fist, shuddered, and she gave a cry, but so weak, so like a parting, that I was near despair.† (source)
- We all exercised in the Yard of Despair for another half hour.† (source)
- Before he shutters his eyes, I catch something that might have been despair.† (source)
- Oh, the despair, my young friends.† (source)
- Smith, Roger noted with despair, "had a slight, knowing smile."† (source)
- I took the finals in the middle of June and came away from them sick with despair.† (source)
- Weeping out of control, she fell to her knees, then collapsed in the street, her screams of despair clear to the man who suddenly was above her.† (source)
- he despair grows now.† (source)
- In her black cotton dress she looked like warmed-over despair.† (source)
- In despair, he hears himself go on: "You're no authority, period.† (source)
- "Do I look sunk in despair?" he asked, holding his arms out from his sides.† (source)
- All had a look of despair, except the face of Eddie Willers.† (source)
- She stepped away from him, her face so filled with despair, Eve's heart broke.† (source)
- They were almost in despair before at last they came to a little muddiness and a tiny trickle of water through softer and better grass.† (source)
- And moans of despair.† (source)
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