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Sentences starting with despair

Despair was the resultant of these forces. [11]
Despair retreated before a woman's insight. [11]

Sentences ending with despair

Honore--how sweet is your name in my language--I love you to despair. [9]
If the New York man says the same, why despair? [11]
He hurried on with his head bent, as though under a heavy burthen, and clasped his hand to his forehead with a gesture of despair. [10]
He was sick with despair. [11]
But never again will I cross this threshold uninvited, or enter a house where right is trodden underfoot, where defenceless innocence is insulted and abandoned to despair. [10]
I don't know whether I ought to rejoice or despair. [10]
Mingled with it were emotions he himself did not understand, caused by the unwonted sight of her loss of self-control, of her anger, and despair. [9]
There was no weakness in the face, no meekness, no suggestion of the conception of the sacrificed Lamb, no hint of a beatific vision of opening heavens--and yet no accusation, no despair. [9]
But now Laura was a convert to the prophet of the Healing Springs, and those people who still retain their heads in the eddy of religious emotion were in despair. [11]
She threw herself upon the great couch in an agony of despair. [11]

Short sentences using despair

I was almost in despair. [5]
Iberville was almost in despair. [11]
I was in despair. [5]
Both were in despair. [5]
And do not despair. [5]
Hope alternated with despair. [2]
I did not despair. [11]
He was in despair. [11]
This was despair. [5]
That was despair. [5]

More example sentences with the word despair in them

It must be your despair that helps you to bear up. [8]
He did not yet despair of reconciliation with Harriet, nor had he ceased to love her. [5]
Is there a world of blank despair, And dwells the Omnipresent there? [6]
In the dry wood of despair soon budded green shoots of hope, and instead of annihilation at the end of this life they showed me Heaven and all its joys. [10]
His Majesty will--" With a gesture of despair Enderby turned and entered the house, and passed into the library, where he found his daughter. [11]
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
The wavering hearts which, in the desert of Sin, had been on the verge of despair were again filled with the anticipation of life, hope, and grateful faith. [10]
From the moment when she had seen Zminis she had expected the worst, but the cry of rage and despair from a thousand voices which now split her ear told her how far the incredible reality outdid her most horrible imaginings. [10]
An unanticipated pity welled up within me for her loneliness, her despair in that room upstairs. [9]
For awhile, perchance, we despair of this. [9]
The governor's arm was as quick to her waist as a gallant's of twenty-five: not his to resist the despair of so noble a creature. [11]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
Strips of dresses, vainly tied around the handles of the doors, signified the contrivance to which feminine despair had resorted as a means of keeping out the murderers. [5]
Blind Fate drives us all, innocent as we are, to death and despair, like the Tantalides. [10]
The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair. [9]
Happiness makes the universe infinite and stupendous, despair makes it small and even trivial. [11]
And it is true that the satisfaction of having a situation, of doing something, the relief to the previous daily anxiety and almost despair, raised his spirits. [4]
Georg stood opposite to her, held out his hand as if beseeching aid, and murmured in a hollow tone: "Cast forth to death and despair! [10]
I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair. [5]
I had learned to feel other woes and joys besides my own, and I could full well picture in my mind the despair which at this hour, must wring the soul of that poor fellow. [10]
It was enough to drive her to despair, to make her scourge herself with rods! [10]
Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him," Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. [2]
You are of those who think they earn all their own success and happiness, and then, when they earn defeat and despair, are surprised that others suffer. [11]
The view from these bird-cages is my despair. [5]
The first discipline, therefore, is that of despair. [6]
Those who concern themselves with the printed matter in books and periodicals are often in despair over the volume of it, and their actual inability to keep up with current literature. [4]
Such placidity as theirs would never understand the nature of my temptations, and I pictured to myself their horror and despair at my revelation. [9]
But what is the trivial, temporal accident of the wiping out of a planet and its inhabitants to the infinite catastrophe which shall establish a mighty world of eternal despair? [6]
It was only the swift thought of a moment, which faded even as it saw the light; but it had its origin in that last flickering sense of human companionship which dies in the atmosphere of despair. [11]
When Eva greeted the reunited pair they had already poured forth to each other the events which had driven them to the verge of despair, and which now once more permitted them with budding hope to anticipate new happiness. [10]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
This will save the poor people from despair! [10]
Epidemics swept away the people like flies, and the burials were conducted secretly and by night, for public funerals were not allowed, lest the revelation of the magnitude of the plague's work unman the people and plunge them into despair. [5]
Mr. Shivers, with the manner of one dealing with an incurable romanticism and sentimentality, would lift his hands in despair. [9]
The conviction that the lazy herd whom he commanded was called upon to pour consolation into a thousand sorrowing hearts, to dry innumerable tears, and to clothe the dry sticks of despair with the fresh verdure of hope, urged him to strong measures. [10]
To Phaedime's despair the king ordered all the inhabitants of the harem, except his mother, Atossa and the dying Nitetis, to be removed to Susa, two days after the accused had been declared innocent. [10]
He saw through the game, and it seemed as if he could not help laughing aloud in delight at his own penetration, in rage and despair. [10]
Though he concealed the fact under a show of irritation and contempt, he was evidently in despair that the sole remaining chance of verifying his theory by a huge experiment and proving its soundness to the whole world was slipping away from him. [2]
Princess Mary wrote that she was in despair at the misunderstanding that had occurred between them. [2]
Happy by comparison, that is, with what they both had suffered, and a haven of rest after the struggle and despair of the wilderness. [9]
He told us that a man named Maisonville, with a party of Indians, was in pursuit of him, and the next piece of news he had was in the way of raising our despair a little. [9]
He, too, says that "If an innovator should appear, holding out hope to those in despair, and curing disorders which the faculty have recorded as irremediable, he is at once, and without inquiry, denounced as an empiric and an impostor. [3]
It is the terrible one to whom I was delivered by hate and the deceived love which is now dragging me by the hair, and will rob and torture me till I despair of life. [10]
When she was taken to the general's house she was in great dejection, and her face had a look of ennui and despair. [11]
It had all taken near five minutes of the time before the train went, and, with despair, Barouche mounted the steps of the tram. [11]
The great voice swelled out in a passion of agony, then sank away into a note of despair that gripped the heart. [11]
Paulus declined to sup with them, for after he had scourged himself in despair and remorse for the throwing of the discus, he had vowed a strict fast. [10]
Amid so much suffering, she often sunk into despair before the cold hearth and empty pots, and no longer thought it worth while to plait her large cap and ruffs. [10]
Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment. [2]
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
That broke my strength, and when they brought me to the hospital I was on the verge of despair, and life seemed a greater burden than I could bear. [10]
Not until Els stooped to pick it up did he calm himself, saying, with a shrug of the shoulders, "Who can remain unmoved when the whirlwind of despair seizes him? [10]
Hope revived his soul, and Hope is the sun before which despair flies as the shades of night flee at the rising of the day-star. [10]
The mean and sordid aspect of Fowler Street emphasized and seemed to typify my despair, the pungent coal smoke stifled my lungs even as it stifled my spirit. [9]
Then she uttered soothing words, and, as the anxious, troubled expression did not yet pass from his wrinkled face, she reminded him in faltering yet tender tones how often they had thought they must despair, and yet everything had resulted well. [10]
Mr. Campbell writes slowly, and it takes him some time to get under way; and just as he has fairly begun out comes one of their poems, that sets the world agog, and quite daunts him, so that he throws by his pen in despair. [4]
One day I showed him my treasure-chambers, at the sight of which he fell into despair, called himself a common beggar and declared that one good handful of these precious things would make him a happy man. [10]
Without his intercession she would perish in despair. [10]
Then, as though she were doomed that day to complicity, her eyes chanced to encounter an appealing glance from the Vicomte, who was searching with the courage of despair for an English word, which his hostess awaited in stoical silence. [9]
In her despair she sent out this beseeching cry: "I appeal to the Church universal whether I ought to abjure or not! [5]
Without further reflection she imposed silence upon herself and--yesterday she would not have ventured to do it--threw her arm around Herr Casper's shoulders, gazed affectionately at him, and whispered: "You must not despair, father. [10]
They saw that she alone was able to restrain her mother from unreasoning despair. [2]
And what she seemed to see in it, confronting her, were the hatred and despair of her own soul! [9]
Then came the second verse: "Far in the deep where darkness dwells, The land of horror and despair, Justice has built a dismal hell, And laid her stores of vengeance there. [6]
He had been sceptical about despair--feminine despair, which could always be cured by gifts and baubles. [9]
But all the same he was sunk in despair, and behaved as though he had nothing on earth left to live for. [10]
You have made sacrifices for it as I have; and we need not despair yet. [10]
There was a rush toward him, a rush that drove Janet against the wall almost at his side, and he held up his hands in mock despair, gently impeding the little bodies that strove to enter. [9]
Now she walked restlessly up and down, asking herself what her fate would be, and now she flung herself on the couch and gave herself up to dull despair. [10]
Yet it seemed probable that despair would give the routed warriors courage not to let their oasis fall into the hands of the Hebrews without striking a blow. [10]
They would despair, possibly resign to go and save their families somehow, or die with them. [7]
A superstitious despair possessed the heart of every monk and published itself in his ghastly face. [5]
For a moment Pauline stood motionless in the middle of the room, her gaze fixed upon the door which had just closed; then, with a wild gesture of misery and despair, she threw herself upon the couch in a passionate outburst of weeping. [11]
Bequeathed to the passionate, young enthusiast, who made it whisper his hidden love, and cry his inarticulate longings, and scream his untold agonies, and wail his monotonous despair. [6]
The village was paralyzed with fright, distress, despair. [5]
Yet despite the pain of finality there was on him something of the apathy of despair. [11]
When it was over, however, she looked down at her fetters in despair, and it was long before she could think of her dreadful position quietly. [10]
The battle was over of this poor weakling against the world; the torments of haunting fear and hate, of drink and despair had triumphed. [9]
The ship faded out of sight and left despair behind her. [5]
We volunteer no opinion, we despair of guiding people, but are confirmed in our perception that Nature is all right, and that we have a good understanding with it. [6]
Everybody has an opinion, and lets you have it frank and hot, and out of this multitude of counsel you get merely confusion and despair. [5]
I know; not one will remember that the other was a woman, a feeling human being; it will occur to no one that his deed on the one hand saved an hour of discomfort, and on the other wrought half a century of despair. [10]
They are at once our models and our despair. [4]
She almost longed on the instant to strip herself bare, as it were, and let him see her as she really was, or as, in her despair, she thought she really was. [11]
After the departure of Wingfield, Captain Smith was constrained to act as Cape Merchant; the leaders were sick or discontented, the rest were in despair, and would rather starve and rot than do anything for their own relief, and the Indian trade was decreasing. [4]
With a shock of surprise he suddenly remembered that his inability to reach this class had been one of the causes of his despair! [9]
In a spirit of stoic despair he had come to the seat of war. [11]
Banging and slamming of shutters; smashing of windows and the ringing clash of falling glass; clatter of flying feet along the halls; shrieks, supplications, dumb moanings of despair, within, hoarse shouts of command outside; cracklings and mappings, and the windy roar of victorious flames! [5]
True, a division of reliable Macedonian warriors was to accompany them, and Ledscha was in a well-guarded place, yet it might perhaps be necessary to defend themselves against an outburst of despair among the condemned prisoners. [10]
In the presence of people, Tracy showed a tranquil outside, but his heart was being eaten out of him by distress and despair. [5]
His look was of mingled wonder and despair, as he said, in a gasping whisper, "You carried that letter to Archangel's Rise? [11]
But most men of his type have seen them in despair; and since he was not related to this particular despair, what finer feelings he had were the more easily aroused. [9]
There are tears of grief and of joy, and the laugh which is an accompaniment of pleasure is also heard on the narrow boundary between suffering and despair. [10]
He lost sight of everything--this strange and interesting woman, and the peculiar nature of the events in which he was sharing, and saw only Clare Hazard's ruined life, Luke Freeman's despair, and the fatal 26th of January, so near at hand. [11]
In a kind of despair, we are apt to run over in our minds empires and pre-eminent civilizations that have existed, and then to doubt whether life in this world is intended to be anything more than a series of experiments. [4]
To what depths of despair they reduced me they never knew, and yet they were doing it all for my good! [9]
With the strength of despair she sprang up, ran after the mules, overtook them on a slight ascent which had lessened their speed, and seized the reins. [10]
After the stage of despair comes the period of consolation. [6]
We do not object to a terrific thunder-shower now and then, as the sign of despair and a lost soul, but perpetual drizzle and grayness and inclemency are tedious to the reader, who has enough bad weather in his private experience. [4]
This sound was not human, though it was like despair. [13]

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