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Sentences starting with desperate

Desperate enterprises roused him; the impossible had a charm for him. [11]
Desperate cases require desperate remedies, you know. [9]

Sentences ending with desperate

Plainly the situation was desperate. [5]
The old man was desperate. [11]
The weapon mainly used was the bayonet, the fighting was desperate. [5]
We can't take this place; let me urge you not to make the attempt; it is too desperate. [5]
So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate. [5]
He listened to the mules galloping, till the sounds had died into the distance, but he saw now that his captor had heard too, and that the pursuit would be desperate. [11]
Carbourd had been more heroic, but then Carbourd was desperate. [11]
Agne stood as if a thunderbolt had fallen, pale, trembling and desperate. [10]
And sometimes--I'm afraid I can't explain it to you--sometimes I feel lonely and frightened, as though I might do something desperate. [9]
Her desire to get away grew desperate. [9]

Short sentences using desperate

For he was desperate. [9]
I am a desperate man. [5]
He was gloomy and desperate. [5]
They're getting desperate. [9]
He was desperate. [11]

Sentences containing desperate two or more times

It was a desperate time, but just when it seemed most desperate the wheel of doom turned backward and we were saved. [11]
For such a desperate case only desperate remedies could avail; he therefore ventured to propose to conduct Melissa into Caesar's presence, that she might appeal to his clemency. [10]
They are desperate and bent on desperate deeds. [7]

More example sentences with the word desperate in them

One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
He made desperate work now and then with rhyme and rhythm, showing that though a born poet he was not a born singer. [6]
He was also wondering how much right he had to put the strain upon the woman in her desperate hour. [11]
Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. [2]
He regarded his wife, himself, and Cayley, as an impartial judge would view the extraordinary claims of three desperate litigants. [11]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
The little garrison, which had done no more than issue in sorties, was now throwing its full force on the enemy in a last desperate endeavour. [11]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
When at last we came to a badly ruptured bit of masonry, with hoof-prints evidencing a desperate struggle to regain the lost foothold, I looked quite hopefully over the dizzy precipice. [5]
While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
If not, I was prepared to take more desperate measures; remain in the grocery business I would not. [9]
Mr. Amos Cuthbert was elected Chairman, not without a gallant and desperate but unsupported fight of a minority led by Mr. Jake Wheeler, whose loyalty must be taken as a tribute to his species. [9]
Personally his situation was desperate enough, but he was not inclined to face it. [4]
The party that was arranged for this trip included Mrs. Cortlandt and her bevy of beauty and audacity, Miss Lamont and her uncle, Mrs. Farquhar, the artist, and the desperate pilgrim of love. [4]
They were men used to desperate enterprises, and they had flocked to him because they smelled excitement and booty. [11]
Would you send us out among these desperate hordes, with no salvation in our utmost need but this old turret? [5]
Panic emotion was uppermost, while desperate and reckless purpose was in his eyes. [11]
Here they were upon a now hostile shore without food, fire, shelter, and weapons; their situation was desperate even yet. [11]
Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. [2]
In the deep twilight of that forest solitude four desperate rascals--Burgess, Sullivan, Levy, and Kelley--ambushed themselves beside the mountain-trail to murder and rob four travelers--Kempthorne, Mathieu, Dudley, and De Pontius, the latter a New Yorker. [5]
The look he turned on the intriguers of the Palace was repellent; he reserved for Sharif a moody, threatening glance, and the desperate hakim shrank back confounded from it. [11]
The duchess was troubled for her husband, for she foresaw desperate fighting; and she held Joan to her breast, and stroked her hair lovingly, and said: "You must watch over him, dear, and take care of him, and send him back to me safe. [5]
Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
I had wanted to, but I had not been willing to take desperate chances, and had always dissuaded the king from them. [5]
He was ready to yield to temptation if it came in his way; he would even court it, but he did not shape out any plan very definitely in his mind, as a more desperate sinner would have done. [6]
I try not to take away all hope, unless the case is clearly desperate, and then to direct the activities into some other channel. [6]
Then she turned to me, and I awaited her words with a desperate sort of courage. [11]
It matters little to me where I live, and I had a desperate hope that some intelligence might be cast in my way there, which would not reach me elsewhere. [12]
I was intent to make a desperate fight. [11]
She had wished to kill him--would she remain desperate enough to ruin him? [9]
I have gone to a town with a sober literary essay in my pocket, and seen myself everywhere announced as the most desperate of buffos,--one who was obliged to restrain himself in the full exercise of his powers, from prudential considerations. [6]
From time to time he glanced backward, as a wise general in retreat calculating his chances and the power and speed of pursuers, and the moment for the last desperate burst. [13]
It was music through which breathed the desperate, troubled, aching heart and tortured mind of an overworked strong man. [11]
By and by things got desperate with him; he sets his head to work and thinks it all out, and then what does he do? [5]
At the justice-room, they found the single gentleman, who had gone straight there, and was expecting them with desperate impatience. [12]
In one of these camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose career bristled with desperate adventures. [5]
As for talk, there was but one topic, of course--the desperate situation of France. [5]
That was not the voice which had spoken to her in broken tones of love on the day Ian first dined with her after her marriage--that fateful, desperate day. [11]
I alternated between the horror and the romance of the story I had heard, supplying for myself the details he had omitted: I beheld the signals from the windows, the clandestine meetings, the sudden and desperate flight. [9]
The people of the fort had said they had never seen him so irascible, yet so gentle; so uneasy, yet so reserved; so stern about the mouth, yet so kind about the eyes as he had been since Hume had gone on this desperate errand. [11]
When, in July, the financial situation became desperate, the Esmeralda miner was moved to turn to literature for relief. [5]
He was under the effect of opiates,--why not (if his case was desperate, as it seemed to be considered) stop his sufferings with chloroform? [6]
The courage and the desperate conflicts of stags have often been described; their skeletons have been found in various parts of the world, with the horns inextricably locked together, shewing how miserably the victor and vanquished had perished. [1]
Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a desperate attack just to punish him--Rostov. [2]
I had just that desperate feeling of being lost, and with it went an acute sense of an imminent danger; the ground, no longer firm under my feet, had become a sliding shale sloping toward an unseen precipice. [9]
She had the temper of a man in her real enjoyment of the desperate chances of life. [11]
Have your portrait taken as a "Wonderful Cure of a Desperate Disease given up by all the Doctors. [6]
He halted abruptly, struck by the challenge, and he saw that this woman had spoken not for herself, but for an entire outlawed and desperate class. [9]
They twine and strive in mystic conflict, and, in rage of equal power, neither vanquished nor conquering, circle, mad and desperate, round the Channel Isles. [11]
He suddenly found sources of refined but desperate retaliation. [11]
Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? [7]
After you have smoked about thirty-five dollars' worth of them in the forenoon, you feel nothing but a desperate yearning to go out somewhere and take a smoke. [5]
He walked on, slowly, to feel stealing on him that desperate longing for adventure which he had known so well in his younger days. [9]
But no medical skill could keep cold and hunger and bad food, and, probably enough, desperate homesickness in some of the feebler sort, from doing their work. [3]
Her arms, her shoulders, her feet were bare; all that she could spare from her body had gone to bind the wounds of her desperate comrades. [11]
They were like sheep before us as we beat them back into the reeking hatches, and soon the pumps were heard bumping with a renewed and a desperate vigour. [9]
I love, love..." she said, convulsively pressing her hands and setting her teeth with a desperate effort... She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this. [2]
Besides, I have seen a good many desperate fellows at the bar, and I have a fancy they all have a look belonging to them. [6]
As Isaac Worthington sat there, thinking, it grew clear, to him at last that there was but one exit out of a, very desperate situation. [9]
Regardless of the run of luck, and mindful only of the desperate passion which had its hold upon her grandfather, losses and gains were to her alike. [12]
We on the right, led by Wolfe, charged the desperate and valiant men of Roussillon and Guienne and the impetuous sharpshooters of the militia. [11]
Special enterprise was required to save such desperate cases as are made a specialty of here, and all that medical and surgical science can do has been concentrated, with extraordinary success, on the shattered men who are brought to her wards. [9]
For him nothing remained of the desperate journey but a couple of scars. [11]
Tracy began to realize that the situation was desperate, and the thought made him cold to the marrow. [5]
She packed, repacked, pressed, made the butler's assistant and Petya--whom she had drawn into the business of packing--press on the lid, and made desperate efforts herself. [2]
I hope and pray we can make out to reach the islands before we get to this strait; but we have one or two desperate men aboard, though they are quiet enough now. [5]
It suddenly came over the storekeeper that the predicament in which Mr. Worthington found himself whatever it was--must be a very desperate one. [9]
A weakness came over him, and the skin of his face became creased and clammy like that of a drowned man; his limbs trembled, so desperate was his passion. [11]
Philip himself was outwardly calm, with that desperate quiet which belongs to the most perilous, most adventurous achieving. [11]
We realised that our circumstances were desperate, now. [5]
His men on one side of the circle, as Ebn Ezra Bey's men on the other, fought with a valour as desperate as the desert ever saw. [11]
Howbeit, as Starch once more pointed to the pear-tree, he confessed in desperate terror that another man had claimed the tops, one who had not been caught, inasmuch as they were so high and good. [10]
But he goes on: "When I first went to those desperate designes it cost me many a forgotten pound to hire men to go, and procrastination caused more run away than went. [4]
But men embarked on a desperate enterprise are not to be stopped by such trifles, and the problem was solved by sawing out two adjoining boards. [9]
He had an official called an 'Ordner,' whose help he could invoke in desperate cases, but apparently the Ordner is only a persuader, not a compeller. [5]
It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. [2]
It is part of the plan of his campaign, and he will cling to it with a desperate grip. [7]
They swarmed out of the bowels of the ship like a horde of Tartars, unkempt and wild and desperate with fear, until I thought that the added weight on the scarce-supported deck would land us all in the bilges. [9]
He even thought of one rider who had worn off his teeth in this terrible hold to break or control desperate horses. [13]
The immutable principles of justice are to make way for party interests, and the bonds of social order are to be rent in twain, in order that a desperate faction may be sustained at the expense of the people. [7]
Among other adventures of his was a duel of a desperate sort, fought with swords, at the Castle. [5]
But there was no telling to what desperate lengths his passion might not carry him. [5]
When, therefore, at night they came suddenly upon the shores of Hudson's Bay, and Fort Hayes lay silent before them, they were ready for desperate enterprises. [11]
Never was a new ruler in a more desperate plight than Lincoln when he entered office on the fourth of March, 1861, four months after his election, and took his oath to support the Constitution and the Union. [7]
Irving's pen is never more congenially employed than in describing these desperate but romantic encounters. [4]
General Armour and Mrs. Armour were always grateful to Lambert and Mrs. Townley for the part they played in this desperate little comedy. [11]
I think the movement is a general and concerted one, such as would not be if he was acting upon the purpose of a very desperate defense of Richmond. [7]
The hungry, made more desperate by their own sufferings or the spectacle of starving families, were increasingly difficult to control: many wished to return to work, others clamoured for violence, nor were these wholly discouraged by a portion of the leaders. [9]
She made one more desperate appeal. [9]
That which Leicester meant should be by-play of a moment became a full half-hour's desperate game. [11]
We walked slowly, making desperate leaps over the trenches, sometimes perforce going through them, treading gingerly on the "duck board" at the bottom. [9]
The enemy are making a desperate push upon Harper's Ferry, and we are trying to throw General Fremont's force and part of General McDowell's in their rear. [7]
The Yankees have made no secret of this vast preparation for an attack on Charleston, and we may well anticipate a desperate conflict. [7]
Steamy sweat and lathering foam streaked the flanks of the desperate, laboring brutes, while clouds of dust were flung up from the dry, furrowed and trampled soil. [10]
She closed with it, plugged it with cannon-shot, and drew off, then took the wind on her beam and came drifting down on her, boarded her and, after a swift and desperate fight, killed every pirate-rogue save one--the captain--whom for reasons they made a prisoner. [11]
The next letter is written by her and shows her deep sympathy with Hall in his desperate struggle. [5]
The waves broke in upon us, and presently, while half of us were paddling with laboured and desperate stroke, the other half were bailing. [11]
That was how in the midst of a desperate melee twenty miles away on the road to Dongola little Dicky Donovan saw Seti riding into the thick of the fight armed only with a naboot of domwood, his call, "Allala-Akbar! [11]
With desperate will I turned again and counted one hundred, and faced about, all in a tremble. [5]

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