Despaired

Examples

• Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• How she had despaired and hoped to die there; and now were not all her wishes accomplished, and the lover of whom she had despaired her own for ever? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He almost despaired of success, when, suddenly, he observed the loose fibres of his string to move towards an erect position. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As it was, many loyal people despaired in the fall of 1862 of ever saving the Union. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too late to be saving. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had not despaired; nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning, if set free. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Only last night I despaired of ever seeing you again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He's dead and her life is despaired of. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In spite of his splendid spirit the ceaseless war to protect their claims had somewhat broken him, and he had despaired of ever receiving justice in the courts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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