All 18 Uses of
despair
in
Inheritance
- Their scales were like gems, and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible.†
Chpt Prel *
- A shriek of all-consuming despair emanated from a window high above the open entrance to the keep, followed by a fiery explosion that ejected blocks of stone from within the building, blocks that landed amid the assembled Varden, crushing limbs and torsos like dry twigs.†
Chpt 1
- Through cold and darkness they sailed, then heat and despair and indifference so vast and so great, it sapped their will to do anything other than to stop and weep.†
Chpt 6
- It was an immense task, and he despaired of accomplishing what was needed, fearing that the city might erupt into open battle again.†
Chpt 7
- Sweat glistened on their foreheads, and their eyes were hard with anger and despair.†
Chpt 9
- They'll cut us to pieces, Roran thought, despairing.†
Chpt 18
- Tharos had demanded in response, the sound of despair ringing in his voice.†
Chpt 22
- The expression in her eyes was that of despair, and he knew she had no more idea of how to escape than he did.†
Chpt 29
- It's not here," he finally said, despairing.†
Chpt 31 *
- So he kept moving, laboring alongside the elves in spite of his despair.†
Chpt 37
- In his despair, Eragon thought of praying to the dwarf god Guntera for help, even as he had done before.†
Chpt 38
- For a moment, despair and self-pity bedeviled her.†
Chpt 42
- Then she disciplined herself and put aside her despair.†
Chpt 42
- Eventually, what light there was began to fade, and despair settled upon Eragon.†
Chpt 47
- As the decades crawled past, we began to despair that anyone would be able to kill Galbatorix.†
Chpt 56
- Once he and Baldor had killed the rest of the soldiers around the ballista, Baldor looked at him with an expression of despair.†
Chpt 63
- Roran's mouth went dry, and he felt a sense of despair.†
Chpt 65
- Eragon looked over at Arya, and he saw his despair mirrored in her eyes.†
Chpt 66
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