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Sentences starting with desperation

Desperation seemed possible, notwithstanding the awfulness of the example. [9]
Desperation seized him. [11]

Sentences ending with desperation

The tragedy of Mrs. Rindge had served--if such a thing could be--to enhance her own; a sudden spectacle of a woman in a more advanced stage of desperation. [9]
There was a light in his eyes like that in a wounded animal's; and although he was thin and slight, he had the concentrated power of desperation. [9]
I took her in my arms; she did not resist, as I half expected, but clung to me with what seemed desperation. [9]
He was neither happy nor unhappy, but in equilibrium, walking with sure steps, and the anxiety in which he had fallen asleep the night before was gone: anxiety lest the woman should have fled, or changed her mind, or committed some act of desperation. [9]
This is mere desperation. [7]
He is the Church to that miserable, hopeless wretch we saw to-day, and to hundreds of the same kind whom he has driven to desperation. [9]
He cried out, and swung his gun shoulderwards in desperation. [11]

More example sentences with the word desperation in them

If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
In desperation he went inside and climbed to the roof, where he could see the circle of the enemy. [11]
Leicester, who now was playing the game as though it were a hazard for states and kingdoms, read the increasing trouble in her face; and waited confidently for the moment when in desperation she would lose her self- control and go to the Queen. [11]
As she continued to talk, a feeling that was almost desperation grew upon me. [9]
Now he clung to her with a desperation that was terrible, as though to let go of her would be to fall into nameless voids beyond human companionship and love. [9]
In the meantime the Honourable Elisha Jane, spurred on by desperation and thoughts of a 'dolce far niente' gone forever; has sought and cornered Mr. Bascom. [9]
For minutes the struggle continued, for Lygon was fighting with the desperation of one who makes his last awful onset against fate and doom. [11]
She tried to put Ditmar from her mind; she sought in desperation, not only to keep busy, but to steep and lose herself in this fierce creed as an antidote to the insistent, throbbing pain that lay ambushed against her moments of idleness. [9]
Seeing them pass, Prince Vasili drew back with obvious impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of desperation slammed the door with all her might. [2]
But now, all other considerations were lost in the new uncertainties and anxieties of their wild and wandering life; and the very desperation of their condition roused and stimulated her. [12]
With the energy of desperation I was bending to the pull, when the Malay in front of me sank dead across the tackle. [9]
Sometimes he did not appear at breakfast, although Honora clung with desperation to the hour they had originally fixed: sometimes Mr. Manning waited for him until nearly ten o'clock, only to receive curt dismissal. [9]
I had not much hope of bringing life back, but still we worked with a kind of desperation, for it seemed to Hungerford and myself that somehow we were responsible to humanity for him. [11]
For a while it did seem that these people would pass the king before I could get to him; but desperation gives you wings, you know, and I canted my body forward, inflated my breast, and held my breath and flew. [5]
Mrs. Colfax flew in the face of all the known laws of nursing, until Virginia was driven to desperation, and held a council of war with Dr. Polk. [9]
Fulkerson felt capable, in his desperation, of delicately suggesting such a course to Lindau, or even of plainly advising it: he did not care for Lindau a great deal, and he did care a great deal for the magazine. [8]
In sheer desperation I took it--on credit, for sufficient reasons. [5]
Hopeless, sad-eyed misery, hunger, feverish anxiety, desperation, then; thankfulness, serenity, joy too deep for utterance now. [5]
Dismay was in her face, but the look of horror and desperation was gone. [11]
In this state her eyes fell on the letter she had started to Miss Lucretia Penniman, and in desperation she began to write. [9]
With desperation she had fought a fight during these three lonely days, till at last she had conquered, sleeping each night on Crozier's star-lit bed of boughs and coming in with the silver-grey light of dawn. [11]
There was an element of desperation in the discussion. [9]
Thus outlawed and driven to desperation by hunger, these fugitives, whom nobody can defend for running away from their duties as citizens, became brigands. [4]
At last, in desperation, she got out of bed, hurried to the fireplace, caught the little sharp-tongued recorder in a nervous grasp, and stopped it. [11]
They knew the desperation of his case. [9]
So in blind desperation I started such a rattling 'shivaree' down below as never had astounded an engineer in this world before, I fancy. [5]
The second Arab dealt death on all sides with the courage and strength of desperation, and three of his fellows managed to climb up the boat's side; but the last man was pushed back into the water. [10]
He had grown calmer himself, calmer with that desperation which comes to a man of his type when his soul and body are burning with desire for a woman. [9]
He was touched by the rod of desperation, which makes the soul protest that it is right when it knows that it is wrong. [11]
In his desperation and restlessness Kit cast his eyes about the chapel, and happening to let them fall upon a little seat in front of the clerk's desk, could scarcely believe them when they showed him--Quilp! [12]
Suddenly she experienced an overwhelming realization of the desperation of Hannah's plight,--the destiny of spending one's days, without sympathy, toiling in the confinement of these rooms to supply their bodily needs. [9]
Honora sought, with an energy that had in it an element of desperation, to keep pace with her husband. [9]

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