Despairing

Examples

• And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There was neither pleasure nor exultation in Cassy's eyes,--only a despairing firmness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Her father might be a heretic; but had not she, in her despairing doubts not five minutes before, shown herself a far more utter sceptic? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Clym was very grave at the intelligence, but not despairing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her quivering lips, her despairing heart refused to afford her voice to express our misfortune. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mrs. Bute did not augur much good to the cause from the sending of her son James as an ambassador, and saw him depart in rather a despairing mood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It found her despairing, it left her desperate--two different states. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Lately, they very often wouldn't laugh, and he used to come home despairing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Jo gave a despairing groan, and Meg laughed outright, while Beth let her bread burn as she watched the fun with interest. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I confided all to my aunt when I got home; and in spite of all she could say to me, went to bed despairing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Despairing, I had him removed to the pits, where he still is. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She listened for an instant, threw up her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and as noiselessly as she had come. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When despairing African fugitives do the same thing,--it is--what _is_ it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With a despairing glance at her set, she obeyed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The despairing way in which my mother and I look at each other, as I blunder on, is truly melancholy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I got up despairing, and went out despairing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: 'What a fine thing capital punishment is! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Despairing of Spanish help, Columbus sent his brother Bartholomew to Henry VII of England, but the adventure did not attract that canny monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When unopposed they spread their ravages wide; in cases of danger they clustered, and by dint of numbers overthrew their weak and despairing foes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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