Hopeless

Examples

• My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The case is hopeless. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I copied as quickly as I could, but at nine o'clock I had only done nine articles, and it seemed hopeless for me to attempt to catch my train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now, was there some one in the hopeless unattainable distance? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The cruellest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I saw it was hopeless and useless to speak, and I only put my arm round her, and held her to me in silence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Dawson very unwillingly made the concession required of him--I think he saw that it was hopeless to dispute with her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Because it was so endless, so hopeless. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At one while my journey looked hopeful, and at another hopeless. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In a less critical situation the effort need not have been given up as hopeless even yet. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They nearly shook my mind; relief was so hopeless, redress so unattainable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At what time of the night he had gone, or how, or why, it seemed hopeless ever to divine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fish on his return from St. Louis, after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of educating the court. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Although it seemed a well-nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I feel such a despair, so hopeless, as if it were the end of the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It was useless and hopeless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They were hopeless of remedy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is a picture of hopeless drudgery and blank ignorance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, my dear, he returned with a hopeless gesture. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And of course it is hopeless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Miles