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Sentences starting with desperately

Desperately she tried to meet his gray eyes, in vain, desperately she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew. [13]
Desperately tired though he was, he must not leave now. [9]

Sentences ending with desperately

I--I don't feel up to it," said Honora, desperately. [9]
Tull's men were not saving their mounts; they were driving them desperately. [13]
The Rebel skirmish line had fallen back just that instant, two of our skirmishers were grappling with a third man, who was fighting desperately. [9]
If the candidate for that fearful calling had seen the process of selection and elimination, he would have felt still more desperately. [6]
Suddenly, in the fading light, she flung her arms around me, pressing me tightly, desperately. [9]
If large reinforcements are going from Richmond to Jackson, it proves one of two things: either they are very strong at Richmond, or do not mean to defend the place desperately. [7]

More example sentences with the word desperately in them

I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
Upon one occasion, when he was desperately enamored of a lady whom he wished to marry, he got Irving to write for him a love-letter, containing an offer of his heart and hand. [4]
When the salmon-fisher was roused, his anger became desperately serious. [11]
But his life was desperately hungry for her. [11]
I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely unconscious that there was any moral obliquity about such a publication. [5]
He most desperately wanted to see Harvey--and William, too, for that matter--because he was one of them kind that can't bear to make a will. [5]
I was desperately troubled for Livy--about the down-cellar cells in the ancient "Latin. [5]
The most trustworthy tradition avers, however, that only one man, a person named Babbitt, survived the massacre, and he was desperately wounded. [5]
It was better to walk than to sit alone in torment, to be gnawed by that Thing from which she had so desperately attempted to escape, and failed. [9]
The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
For a long time she could not help clinging desperately to her faithful Betta, and it was only by degrees that she so far recovered herself as to be able to speak to the bishop, and thank him. [10]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
The man with the club fought desperately for his life, but it was a hopeless fight from the first. [5]
Going into a stable he saw four dead soldiers, and three desperately wounded, placed with their backs against the wall. [3]
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. [7]
He was desperately slow and phenomenally forgetful. [5]
Along Faber Street, singly or in little groups, anxiously glancing around them, behind them, came the workers who still clung desperately to their jobs. [9]
What animated these persons who had struggled over her so desperately, Sally Grower, Mr. Bentley, and Hodder himself? [9]
The crowd, crushing one another, upsetting carts, and shouting and squeezing desperately, had cleared off the bridge and the troops were now moving forward. [2]
She flung herself on one side, thrust her hind quarters under the pole, and kicked desperately, lifting the chariot quite off the ground; the young charioteer lost his footing and slipped. [10]
And the poor old place has such a desperately conscious air of going to the deuce. [5]
She sat regardless of time, now scarcely stirring, desperately quiet. [11]
The red glare of strife danced before the eyes of the veriest book-worm; fired by the terrible impulse to kill, to subdue, to destroy the foe, they fought desperately and blindly, staking their lives on the issue. [10]
Suppose he voted no; suppose the bill failed; that is to suppose this stupendous game lost forever, that I have played so desperately for; suppose people came around pitying me--odious! [5]
He looks to me like a man that would hold on desperately as a lover. [6]
Suddenly, however, Mr. Mappin became aware that Stafford had turned desperately white and worn. [11]
That he had loved her, at any rate that evening under the trees, she obstinately maintained in her own mind; to that conviction she must cling desperately, or lose her last foothold. [10]
They near the line, every rower straining desperately, almost madly. [6]
Of course he knew nothing of her history; he knew nothing seriously against her, and if Harry was desperately enamored of her, why should he not win her if he could. [5]
Would you believe it: from the first time she saw him in Justinus' villa she fell desperately in love with him; it was all over with her; she was his as completely as the ring on my finger is mine! [10]
Only a man in love could speak like this and a man so desperately in love can achieve whatever he will. [10]
It was as if this one precious woman I had so desperately pursued had, in the capture, lost her identity, had mysteriously become just woman, in all her significance, yes, and helplessness. [9]
Curiously, even as I fought desperately I compared him with that other lad I had known, Andy Jackson. [9]
Adam had swung his hammer on the Mere and by the Zucker Canal among the citizens, who fought desperately for the property and lives of their families;--but all was vain. [10]
Tell me," said he, diving desperately at the root of it, "how does Miss Trevor feel about my getting out? [9]
After a moment he said, desperately, "Beaton, you've got a pretty good head; why don't you suggest something? [8]
It is a good thing to be accurate; it is desperately essential in a novel. [11]
The young men fought desperately till they were all killed. [5]
The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few steps, and again stopped. [2]
I had pawned every thing but the clothes I had on; so I clung to my dime desperately, till it was smooth with handling. [5]
So she clung, desperately, to her sister's hand until at last Lise roused herself, her hair awry, her face puckered and wet with tears and perspiration. [9]
In Ceylon a closely allied, wild species, the Gallus Stanleyi, is known to fight desperately "in defence of his seraglio," so that one of the combatants is frequently found dead. [1]
She strove desperately, but she could not rise immediately from such a blow. [13]
Once when Jopp became desperately ill there had been--though he fought it down, and condemned himself in every term of reproach--a sense of relief in the thought that perhaps his ancient debt would now be cancelled. [11]
Then he rose and stood almost straight up on his hind feet, and I, clasping his lean neck desperately, slid back into the saddle and held on. [5]
They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. [2]
She screamed desperately and angrily and tried with her little hands to pull Pierre's hands away and to bite them with her slobbering mouth. [2]
Livy darling, I am desperately homesick. [5]
How thin the air seemed, how desperately hard to breathe! [6]
He groped desperately about on his hands, and presently struck his head against the table and was deeply grateful, for it gave him his bearings again, since it stood close by the door. [5]
She may be a prophetess, or a consoler, or a snare, but she is no more "deceitful and desperately wicked" than anybody else. [4]
It was as a man who actually had a great truth which he was desperately trying to impart, and could not. [9]

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