Desponding

Examples

• Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I wonder the writs haven't followed me down here, Rawdon continued, still desponding. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He and Mrs. Weston were both dreadfully desponding. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At last he stopped right opposite to Margaret, and looked at her drooping and desponding attitude for an instant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She was in a desponding reverie. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That always used to make you happy, said her mother once, when the desponding fit over-shadowed Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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