| 单词 | despair |
| 例句 | A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true despair—rent and heaved my heart. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was with despair that I related this circumstance to Olakunde, stern Olakunde, who bid me not to weep for the tortoise. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A feeling of despair was also edging its way into the group. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Some Hamptonites still recalled how the strange folks at the laboratory saved the town from the economic despair of Prohibition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Garrett looks at me with such despair, it nearly overwhelms me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There some paces from him sat the great beast, and all seemed dark about it, and above it loomed the Nazgûl Lord like a shadow of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Finally, in his despair, as the entire room started to spin around him, he fell onto the middle of the large table. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Then Denethor has heard no news of our riding and will despair of our coming.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “The important people know the difference,” Kote said as if he were trying to convince himself, but his voice was weary and despairing, without conviction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She sank down again and looked at it with despair. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A new sound, part cry-ing, part singing, comes out of my body, giving voice to my despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The children watched in growing despair as the brave child grew weaker and weaker, her voice softer and softer, until at last her cries of defiance were scarcely more than mumbles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But when that bill came—the fiddler’s bill—that bill for the tea, it was so much heavier than anyone expected, Boston was thrown into a paroxysm of anger and despair. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z People who had grown numb with despair began to feel warm hope kindling inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wake up wanting to scream, yell at Geak, and beat up Chou because I do not know what to do with my despair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He spied Yossarian finally with a feeling of immense joy, and then his mouth gaped open slowly in unbearable horror as he noted Yossarian’s vivid, beaten, grimy look of deep, drugged despair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “We are brewing mead for him. There will be despair in the world above, but in the world of the dead there will be only rejoicing.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I was shaking my head in comic despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z During the dreary days in which she had heard nothing from her husband, the name Chickamauga had held desolation and despair for Nancy. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he could despair at this turn of events, something happened inside his chest. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Mary sat on the outdoor concrete steps with the officer standing over her, the two mirroring each other’s despair and frustration. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This vision of a happiness infinitely remote seems a thin sustenance against despair, but it was the only hope the Eddas afforded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a fragile whisper, she said, “They have flying machines,” and watched, desolate, as the understanding changed their three faces, bullying out the last defiant shred of hope, leaving nothing but despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In that despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mom had that despairing look on her face like she did after the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So I lay in bed and listened to her mournful noise and didn’t feel love or hate or anger or anything at all except despair. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z If you’ve ever been picked on by the pronoun police, don’t despair. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In confusion and despair, Selitos watched night settle in the mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She took down their words at breakneck pace, despairing because while she was filling a page, the one before it was erased. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "Ah, perhaps you are right. Jon despaired of me often enough, yet I grew into a good king." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z To the air he had returned, summoning his steed ere the darkness failed, and now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Right now, even despair would seem like a victory. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Forgive me for asking,” he was saying to her, “but why despair? Of all things to be goddess of.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Resignation and despair settled over the household that evening, as though. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Not long after his arrival, Louie was standing at the base, sweating and despairing over the landscape, when a squarish second lieutenant walked up and introduced himself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The group left, and I sank into despair. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them cold with despair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And even as he espied them and came swooping down, he saw them fall, worn out, or choked with fumes and heat, or stricken down by despair at last, hiding their eyes from death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z No patrollers, no bosses, no cries of anguish to induct her into another’s despair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We know that they can feel sadness, fear, despair, loneliness, boredom. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Later still, when I overcame my grief and came to have nothing in my heart but loathing despair, my youngest aunt told me of others. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Through conversations I learned that the members of the New York John Reed Club were in despair at the way in which the congress was drifting, but they took care to conceal their disapproval. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We felt like slumping in despair in our seats. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other diggers were long gone, having cut their clay with a swift skill that left Tree-ear alone and in despair. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It carried news that those at home had almost despaired of hearing. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe that Christ alone can rescue me from despair and cleanse; me from sin,” I say, tears spilling from my eyes, though I try to stop them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then to the sullen and despairing North there came heartening news, the first of which was in a dispatch from Mobile, Alabama. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “By saying the slave should eat honey," he explained, “he means that we should find a little pity in our hearts for one who was driven by despair to do something he will always regret." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it now? Perhaps you think Pm lying? Pm telling you, once and for all: nothing will happen to you! Nothing! You just like to wallow in your despair, you fools!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips moved in a whimper of despair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He clutched his whiskers with his front paws and shook his head from side to side in despair. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z After everything each orphan had been through to get to the sanctuary, when a new one arrived it was an uphill struggle to lift its despair enough to stay alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His rat soul longed inexplicably for it; he began to think that light was the only thing that gave life meaning, and he despaired that there was so little of it to be had. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Well, it was a magic paper,” Pinmei said, but most of the despair had left her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He tried to remember why they were here, but the sense of despair made it difficult to think. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I experience my own confusion as I realize what I’ve said is entirely true, and the noble impulse that carried me across the square is replaced by despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Had she made this place, to reflect her despair, or was it Lazlo’s creation? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He wept with exhaustion and despair and hope. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The girl inside Penelope trailed off, and then her look of confusion melted into despair as she realized the truth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the wake of his own shock of despairing realization, he was taking charge. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Alex tried to fight back his sickness and despair and think of what to do. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His rage cooled quickly, and the transports of ire gave way to the listlessness of despair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Guilt mingled with my despair as I thought of how I had fled into the dark while he faced Claudius’s guard, protecting me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Even if I was headed off to eat bologna—meat of the county home, food of despair. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I’ve always been the clown and mischief maker of the family; I’ve always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z How the arrival of his letter soon dashed my hopes and brought me to despair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Reynie, who had been watching Sticky in bleak despair, noted which button Mr. Curtain pressed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Sure there was anger in it, but I recognized despair, too. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In his despair, Mr. Popper had an idea. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z These were South Africa’s “projects,” areas where despair and hopelessness were not accidental products of the environment but rather the whole point. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She cried, like a little girl who fell off her bike, and then she collapsed with despair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z You may feel perfectly satisfied with your pages as they stand, or our reservations may fill you with dismissive anger, or such despair you never want to look at the thing again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His mouth is expressionless, but in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, Werner can see despair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z During the harsh days of the early 1970s, when the ANC seemed to sink into the shadows, we had to force ourselves not to give in to despair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It began with pleas from the woman begging for the lives of her children, and the children sobbing in despair. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He prodded the straw to close the gap but to no avail, so he threw his arms up in mock despair. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It said simply, Don't despair, You have a friend. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He said nothing else, but the shocked, outraged, despairing note of anguish in the word said all the rest. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Helene puts her fingers over my mouth, her anger replaced with something like despair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Tom had a Reb officer in tow, a weary gentleman with a face of grime and sadness, of exhausted despair. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything else—from ambition to love to despair—derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Corcoran swung to and fro between euphoria and the wildest of despairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And Eril-Fane, savior of Weep, three years’ plaything of the goddess of despair? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He lay still and the smell of mildew and decay overpowered him, contributing an odor to his despair and his fear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there began to flood John’s soul the waters of despair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In his despair, he thought his best course might well be to wedge his sword between two large stones and fall on it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Eventually, I forgave Kia for his mistake and apologized for yelling at him, and returned to my favorite hobby: lying in bed and listening to depressing songs that perfectly captured my longing and despair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Out here in the waste its terror was far greater: it pierced them with cold blades of horror and despair, stopping heart and breath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is a pretty thing, Belinda!” said Mr. Pocket, returning with a countenance expressive of grief and despair. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Judith!’ she called in a voice calm and sweet and filled with despair: ‘Judith honey! Time to come to bed.’ Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I have seen plenty since and have felt the shattering waves of violence and despair and confusion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked it up and read, “You will see yourself reflected, and you will have reason to despair. ” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is a luxury to despair in peace. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he was the lover of the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The horse seems to feel your despair,” the queen said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Someone was filled with a despair too terrible for words! Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Ben threw up his hands in exasperation, almost despair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In despair I wound the rags about me again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly I hung around the mimosa grove, in growing despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A demon came at her, and a scream—not of terror or of despair, but rather a plea—burst from her throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was the same cry of futile despair he had uttered when Sissy had insisted that she had given birth to the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For the despairing moments in between, I was left in my personal darkness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With a last despairing effort Frodo raised himself on his hands, and struggled on for maybe twenty yards. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray, despairing weariness of protracted maneuvers and combat did not touch him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outward from a place deep within him, as if his mind were an ocean that some profound convulsion had disturbed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Up till then he had been looking at the Lion’s great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z There were no more tricks to play; exhausted, despairing, he collapsed on his bed and fell asleep. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He could read her face like one of his favorite books, and what he read now was rage, and fear, and despair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Joy was as unknown to him as was despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Delightful bill. How much is this...ode to dark despair going to run you?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only excursion in my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t let her see his sympathy, of course, but hid it behind a mask of mockery and indifference, just as she hid her despair behind rage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This was by far the worst disaster yet, and it was with despairing hearts that they put in at the next island they reached. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in despair when he returned, but the beasts had been roasted and eaten and nothing could be done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Do not be despair, young bahss. Someone will fin’ us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a valorous opportunist who pounced hoggishly upon every opportunity Colonel Korn discovered for him and trembled in damp despair immediately afterwards at the possible consequences he might suffer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard also a deep groan of despair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then I remember reading Horatio’s letter, and despair, like a cold wind, dispels the momentary peace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It does at times reveal a certain despair over her present situation - a fact that is rather concerning. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Working together in those hopeless conditions somehow lessened the despair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Before my despair could deepen, the OIC started calling the pro-gram runs over the PA system—chapel run, school run, commissary run, State Shop run. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It grew and spread and flooded his whole being with despair. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The failed uprising plunged the whole country into despair again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took the cudgels with the ferocity of despair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suspecting the worst—that my father had been sent to Modderbee—my mother lost faith in herself and began to despair of our future. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On the third day, I began to despair about reaching the giants in time. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Half in exultation and half in despair, she resolved to climb her tree and try once again to lose herself in the Dust. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt so many different things right then: elation at my father’s strange expression of tenderness, and despair for his defeat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth and I sat on the ridge in despair and watched the distant baby-blue shape of the Cyclops as he moved among his flocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When this was done, a heavy feeling of despair fell over her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The goddess of despair was dead and he was dreaming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the midst of despair Lyra fell across Lanre’s body and wept his name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With every squeal and shout and gasp and “Go, Courtney, go!” that comes out of her mouth, I sink a little further into my festering pit of mingled despair and desperation. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He felt that despair was not far from these does; and from all that he had heard of Efrafa, both from Holly and from Chervil, he could understand why. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When the days turned into weeks, Walter began to sink into deep despair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I will name him. Yes. I will name this mouse Despereaux, for all the sadness, for the many despairs in this place. Now, where is my mirror?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He was amazed at himself, going on like this, and to the goddess of despair, no less. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Gagging sporadically, the volunteer patiently scraped out the corpses, cooked up another sugar solution, and rehung the feeder, although already he was beginning to despair of ever attracting a hummingbird to his humble, accursed digs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Clara,” the old woman said, despair dripping off of every word. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He was too perfect, I realized with a piercing stab of despair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Thomas had gotten so used to looks of despair, it was almost unsettling to see happy faces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Roused up, despairing in that gloom, I thought: ‘Should I go overside for a quick finish or clench my teeth and stay among the living?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A jovial fellow with gold-filled teeth and a silvery widow’s peak, he jovially repeated, “Sometimes I despair. Sometimes I think old Doc Savage had the right idea.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind’s eye, Ruza shook his head, despairing of ever making a warrior of him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Where his eyes should’ve been were empty sockets—like Ares s eyes, except Charon’s were totally dark, full of night and death and despair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z No, I thought with despair, thrusting aside the small core of suspicion each time it formed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her locker was depressingly empty, but the second thing kept her from despairing too much: June’s mom had agreed to let her go to the dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I like to think that it isn’t weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite them at the end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘In the mauve salon. Go, brave heart, and save me from despair.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z So he watched, in growing horror and despair, as Cain’s fist slammed into her jaw. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If the man had any doubts, they were chased away by the sounds of desperation and despair coming from just across the hall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was a cold and lonely sound, full of melancholy and despair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The girl from his dreams wasn’t a figment, and she wasn’t the goddess of despair, and she wasn’t dead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After the burial, Mollie went straight to the courthouse—the cold stone building that seemed to hold the secrets to her grief and despair. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And after all he never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning; but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It’s dying, the store is, like the rest of the town and Mr. Phelps spends all his time despairing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the trees lie wide-open plains of despair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a long moment, the monk's expression turned to disappointment and then despair. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The dementors were gliding up and down in front of them, and the cold, and the hopelessness, and the despair of the place laid themselves upon Harry like a curse.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her chest, smaller than my fist, shuddered, and she gave a cry, but so weak, so like a parting, that I was near despair. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He nods, despair stuck to every part of his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Defeat drives them to the worst this border world has to offer: drugs, despair, and death. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He looked at me with his tired eyes, veiled by despair. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On hearing this command one of the two, the one who bore the child, despaired and would hear no comfort or counsel, and procuring poison, committed suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Half sick and in despair, my mother made the rounds of the charitable institutions, seeking help. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And he knew that she meant it, and he despaired, for he might never feel this way again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At the end of her singing tale, I was crying, shaking with despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept them wrapped in cloth in the bottom of a trunk and made ready to feed on memories, waiting without despair. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The students around me seemed so sure of themselves that I despaired of ever being able to conduct myself as they did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And after so many years of despair in East Africa, things started to look up there, too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Russia’s secret weapon is the bewilderment and despair and hunger of millions of people of whose existence we are scarcely aware. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But at the moment of my greatest despair, we found hope. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But Samuel thought and mourned in the thought that the accident was pain and despair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You will be spared this sort of despair.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z For yet another weapon, swifter than hunger, the Lord of the Dark Tower had: dread and despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I was gripped in a sudden agony of despair as I considered that alternative. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The news and emotions and the grief and despair on top of her own emotions and grief and despair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Word of Lanre’s death spread quickly, covering the field like a blanket of despair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She gave a shudder and took a long, shaky breath, and her eyes focused on him, full of a wild despair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Out of the sleepiness the face of despair. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This girl was very slender, and Lazlo hardly expected the goddess of despair to have kind eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘Tripped in the end!’ said Sam bitterly, his anger rising again above weariness and despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can’t take it and how did you ever think you could? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Finally, despairing of rest, Quentyn Martell made his way to his solar, where he poured himself a cup of wine and drank it in the dark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her eyes melted, her mouth caved, and a terrifying thing happened to her face: it collapsed into despair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And so he began, immediately and without despair, the hard work of maneuvering the spool of thread down the narrow dungeon steps. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z There was rejoicing in Troy that night, but grief and despair in the Greek camp. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but despair and that singular nagging thought: Henry may have killed us all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The death of Remedios had not produced the despair that he had feared. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The Negro’s only salvation from complete despair lies in his belief, the old belief of his forefathers, that these things are not directed against him personally, but against his race, his pigmentation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z These thoughts take me to the edge of despair, so I will myself—I force myself—not to have them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And yet how can I move forward even a step without tamping down the despair I feel? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This was a bad place, rank with despair and death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His mind, where the goddess of despair dangled moons from a charm bracelet and “didn’t seem terrible.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cried out in despair, but the sound fell upon the mossy earth, unheard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He thought carefully over all Eilonwy had told him; his despair lightened a little and pride stirred within him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung, in despair over what had happened, ran back with the child to find his eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z These boys and girls were will-less, their speech flat, their gestures vague, their personalities devoid of anger, hope, laughter, enthusiasm, passion, or despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She lost weight, refusing to eat as if wasting away in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Narcissa gave a little scream of despair and clutched at her long blonde hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The two hobbits gazed at the towers and the wall in despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her voice, as she called Deydey and looked over the edge of the loft, was calm with despair. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z After slipping inside the tiny hiding space, I closed myself in, welcoming the darkness as the only safe companion to my despair. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Walter didn't say anything as I explained the situation, but he had a strange, despairing look on his face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The girls accept this truth and examine the newly hatched worms for signs of despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t believe it at first. Never expected to see it again. But—a Fflam never despairs! Quite a stroke of luck, though.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z As the weeks lengthened into months of captivity, the men could not help feeling twinges of despair. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The cats and dog drank from the toilets, having despaired of getting their water bowls filled every morning, and everyone in the family talked to one another at the top of their lungs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Of course, that meant despair for the people on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z And, as the companions wrestled their burden over the hill and descended into a deep valley, Taran nearly sank to the ground in despair. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I feared for his life; I despaired that he should ever rise from his bed again; and I could not abide the hunger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Part of one’s despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z If it is, it isn’t yowling for milk, Matt thought.There was a level of terror and despair in that sound that made the hair stand up on his neck. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From the town of Hinsdale, Illinois, a housewife wrote in despair to one of the world’s leading ornithologists, Robert Cushman Murphy, Curator Emeritus of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I returned to the end of my invisible tether and battled my despair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At last in despair he went back to his house and there he found a substitute. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His life is as dark as an unlit coal mine; he’s trapped in the prison of his own fear, anger, agony, despair. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z No awful, awful, despairing longing nowhere I can hear or feel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Where, with the rush of commerce, despair came home to roost and hardened slowly into resignation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And are you taking pleasure from this whipping you’re giving yourself? Are you enjoying your despair?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It had taken much less time than I’D thought — all the terror, the despair, the shattering of my heart. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Rather, this talk of conflagration was a way of easing the despair of watching the dream come to an end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I frequently had difficult conversations with clients who were struggling and despairing over their situations—over the things they'd done, or had been done to them, that had led them to painful moments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In their midst, Halsey Crunk stood with his arms outstretched, makeup glistening with sweat, face scrunched into a mask of despair. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Basta in particular was the object of enough scorn and derision for ten men, and from his failure to react at all one could only guess at the depths of his despair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I despaired of that day ever reaching its end, but of course it did, and with it our journey. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was precisely to keep from feeling this hate and shame and despair that he had always acted hard and tough toward them; and now he was without defense. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This may yet be his salvation, for, if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I have fought Death, and illness and despair have sapped all my strength. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I put my life at hazard there, which some might account valor; but I knew it for the rashness of despair, the precipitation of utter despondence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The idea of waiting months, just so he can turn me down again, fills me with wild despair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I felt the hovering cloud of despair lighten and drift back as he spoke. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Not so much rest in peace, Harry Potter, more rest in perpetual despair. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z But then something of the despair that Iran had been talking about tapped him on the shoulder and he said, “I don’t know; maybe it doesn’t make any difference.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He repented a thousand sins no more wicked than another’s and despaired of ever attaining salvation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening, while Grandmother sat in my hospital room, rocking me back and forth as she hummed her favorite hymn, “On the Battlefield for My Lord,” Mother paced the floor weeping aloud in her despair. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In despair, he sank to the damp ground, his head pressed against the unyielding oaken planks. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z When Joe had failed at every job, his father in despair put him to herding sixty sheep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But now Mom sagged back against the chair she was trapped in, and Emma could feel her mother’s despair like it was something contagious. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z For months she had felt nothing but despair, but at Riverbank she began to revive. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So she hardened her skin against the wind, her blood against the cold, her heart against the despairing sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z One girl, the picture of despair, leans her cheek in her hands, her too-short skirt revealing bare legs above her shoes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I turn away in despair, and Bando slips his arm around my shoulder. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew they had to talk about the day, and the future, and all the hate and despair and helplessness, but...not just yet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She could not find a way out of the trap she had set for herself, and she was closer to despair than she had been since her mother died. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There came at last a dreadful nightfall; and even as the Captains of the West drew near to the end of the living lands, the two wanderers came to an hour of blank despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Just when I had given up all hope and had sunk to the lowest depth of despair, out of the white wall of driving sleet, my little dog came to me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing what would befall me next, I clutched my mother’s image, feeling all at once abandoned and chosen, despairing and hopeful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She lifted the gun, aimed it at the despairing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As you can no doubt imagine, we often say in despair, “What’s the point of the war? Why, oh, why can’t people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s possible that high-stakes testing and its consequences might shake them from lethargy or despair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The sick fluid of adolescent despair that runs through her veins overflows again into mine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When Cyrus stumped out into the night he was filled with a kind of despairing anger at Charles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As if recalled by his mood of despair, the pain in his arm returned, and he felt weak and old, and the sunlight seemed thin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was more despair than defiance in his voice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m never going to understand this,” my classmate cried in despair. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth didn’t give in to despair easily, but as they walked, she wiped tears from her eyes, trying not to let Percy see. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But even if the church does not come to the aid of justice, I have no despair about the future. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He saw as if his eyes were still open wide the bones, the tufts of hair, the knots of thread, the despair. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I think of Hamlet’s despair, which was beyond my remedy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A look of despair passed over Reyna’s face, though she managed to hide it quickly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while the over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Just like the old women who’d surrounded her bed, despairing of their inability to murder her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “We walk,” I said, fighting the sense of despair that was slowly seeping into my heart. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He picks it up, slowly making the connection, but when I slide down to join him, he looks more despairing than ever. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Even Grandfather had despaired of trying, and that’s why they were in America. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Hope and despair, anticipation and regret, joy and anger. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were even despairing faces: as if the people they belonged to had done dreadful things and also suffered dread ful things. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear . . . but now she saw that she had donned them after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And he began to see that there might be some sense in that last line about getting your heart’s desire and getting despair along with it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z And then he felt that stealing sense of despair, of hopelessness, filling him, expanding inside him.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She felt the despair from the stolen rice exiting her body, almost like smoke escaping. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z For him, as they moved forward in a group—trying not to be too conspicuous about passing other groups ahead of them—he felt more like he was on a constant downward slide into despair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z No one really paid attention to Missus Nedraw because the Golden Hours were making so much noise with their whimpering and despair. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z My parents tell me what I missed in my fog of despair and sleep. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Here was something to make them proud, something to give them hope after the despairing stories of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff and Wilson’s Creek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling despair, the scouting party didn’t return to camp until midafternoon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The stronger my anger, the more I am overcome with feelings of sadness and despair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now her most hateful wish has come to pass: Annabeth feels her despair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Glaucus was in despair, for he was madly in love; and he determined to go to Circe, the enchantress, and beg her for a love-potion to melt Scylla’s hard heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt despair sit on her shoulders, as heavy as if the harpy herself were perching there. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I know too well his look of despair and disapproval when I have just thought that he must be left at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not flinch—even in his despair and anger he recognized how far she was from being the frivolous child she had always seemed to him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I began to fear that she had joined her father at his unsavory trade and disappeared into the city's underworld, in which case we might despair of ever seeing her again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes for a moment, in the grip of a despair as icy cold as the water. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The terrible ache he had felt the night before had gone away and had been replaced with a different feeling, one of hollowness and despair. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z "Tears, tears,” Joe said, reciting again, "tears from the depths of some profound despair.” How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In one, his big, good-natured face buckled in grief as Arabella sank in loneliness and despair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And then suddenly it was not outrage that I waited for, out of which I had instinctively cried; it was not terror: it was some cumulative over-reach of despair itself. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Something about ensuring that your being here won’t bring doom and despair to the Bureau....The usual. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Gradually, Jack felt his mood of despair lift. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Matt despaired of getting her to listen to reason. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, being long self-trained in taking despair sitting down, I managed very easily to keep my seat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z There was utter despair in the soldier’s voice. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Famine and plague were everywhere, and in some places there was such despair that mothers could no longer muster enough hope to give their children names. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I imagined that I heard something beyond despair and anger in his words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The year after my mom died, I spent a lot of time wallowing in self-pity and despair. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She will not be as beautiful as you imagine, and then you will despair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Look at me. I am nothing,” I said, suddenly despairing again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The stable hands, despairing of getting help to the track fast enough, fetched the only transportation on hand, a little runabout truck that the track starter used to motor around the course. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon Vincent is able to look back at his journey through despair and poverty and loss, and the long walk to Courrieres, and see what all of it had actually meant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It is better as it is,” he muttered to himself, and for the first time was wholly filled with despair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There are long, earnest letters filled with genuine despair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Just a couple of days ago, I’d been standing in front of my apartment, looking in despair at a bright yellow eviction notice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t move, and Alex realized with despair that she had expected him to do just this. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Wild joy at their escape from the very mouth of despair suddenly filled all his mind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was worried now--there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I wallowed in a mire of helplessness and despair. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And if one despairs—as who has not?—of human love, God’s love alone is left. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Celia remembers how her own eyes were once like her son’s—hollow sockets that attracted despair like a magnet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After he drove away in his jeep I lived his life for him and it put a mist of despair on me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The door won’t open!” someone howled, and others cried out in despair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z While Char and the knights discussed ogre transport, I thought about the wedding and despaired of getting there in time. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And he recalled Eilonwy’s words in his blackest despair, the girl’s voice telling him that nothing could take away what he had done. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Wild, in charge, would not let them fall into helplessness and despair; that would have been the same as admitting they were doomed. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Twice in his black despair, Mack reached under the bed and caught her and put her in bed with him for company but she squirmed out and went back to eating his shoes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But without academic credentials, he despairs of ever getting published in a scholarly journal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I knelt at the bedside and prayed. . . .” she said, her words coming in a sharp breath of despair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I carried the glasses with me for weeks, until one evening I crushed them underfoot in rage and despair, shattering the glass into splinters, because he wasn’t coming back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But they were not used to such idleness and had gone limp with despair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z All now seemed dry and silent; but refusing to despair Sam stooped and listened, and to his delight he caught the sound of trickling. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Those who survived the floods lived in poverty and despair. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z All the despair he had known as Achren’s captive returned to sap his strength. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She had no desire to look more like the goddess of despair than she already did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I wailed in despair, and she told me to stop crying because having arms was totally overrated. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “So—” said Mama Bellini, all her despair changing into anger. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I look in the third pen in despair. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Today and tomorrow and the next day and all the other days as well would be nothing but punishment and pain, unhappiness and despair. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The words of eminent physicists of the era bristle with intellectual despair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this outburst. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Have these people forgotten history, don’t they know anything about the Scots, don’t they know any better than to clothe small girls in the colors of despair, slaughter, treachery and murder? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was afraid the despair would overwhelm her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My outrage, without outlet, was quickly turning to despair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He despairs of us, all of us, including the model, whose surreptitious gum chewing maddens him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For despair there would have to be acceptance, and that was impossible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Booth, overcome with despair, sets the papers aside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Matt felt his right foot under the scratchy wool blanket.This was his one weakness, and he despaired of keeping it hidden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve never known despair and I don’t think I ever will,” he wrote to me once. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This general despair was just one of the reasons they didn’t detect the score of rats until they were almost on top of them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was blank and hollow-eyed, and there was despair in the set of her features. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Think of last night, the fear, the despair—and if none of that works pinch yourself! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Amid his despair, Tree-ear still felt grateful—grateful that the emissary had not laughed in his face for the stupidity of traveling all that way with only a single shard to show. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The thought of her daughter in bed with these men drives Lourdes to despair, to utter repugnance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The most brash of peoples was seized by despair, fatalism, and fear. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The report concluded: “the despair of the tenants...is justified.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They had just noticed this when a cry of despair broke from every animal’s throat. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z You could not show affection here, no place for it here, too many men will die, must think clearly, but all the while he felt an icy despair, a cold dead place like dead skin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he froze, consumed with despair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The land changed to sandy fields and low scrub, and I began to despair about reaching the giants before the newlyweds celebrated their first anniversary. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The stories of the battle were ones that brought despair to the North. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The words on the pages had stopped making sense, and nothing I could write was adequate to express the despair I felt. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I so dreaded a reply that would crush me with despair. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The toy soldier lay facedown at the burled root of a butternut tree, as if he had pitched himself there in despair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z No great dream lifted him high and no despair forced self-destruction. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Not since I was in Europe, when the Russo-German Pact of 1939 was signed, had I seen news spread such bitterness and despair. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like to think that I might have sensed the level of Harold’s despair. But maybe not. Maybe it would have happened anyway.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “From the perspective of Aeneas,” said Reverend Buckminster next, and Turner despaired with the hero in the groaning and stretching ship—or maybe it was Aeneas who was groaning and stretching. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Market women were shouting, and many had both hands placed on their heads, in the way that people do to show despair or shock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Presently, the tears dried up, leaving a heavy residue of despair behind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Certainly despair was the last thing he thought of when he looked at her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The heart is all that matters. Do not despair, Lord Snow. Despair is a weapon of the enemy, whose name may not be spoken. Your sister is not lost to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The mother saw his movement and the meaning of it, and cried out aloud in despair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Kaltain watched in despair and bewilderment as Dorian carried the weeping assassin in his arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair because of the way I’ve treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I watched her fall convincingly into poverty and despair, once abandoned by the wicked count—who was the prologue speaker in his black cloak. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In despair I gave up, for the time being, attempts to quiet him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why am I no longer favored with Jesus’s blood?” she says, regarding her open palms with despair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “This is nice,” she said, pointing to a large illustration that showed a group of men in various states of despair, holding their heads, lying on the floor, or huddling in corners. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After a cursory glance she threw up her paws in mock despair. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At this moment, I want nothing but gloom, despair, negativity, and complaining. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was still complaining and I was still sunk in despair when Camilla came down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The body must move and throw itself about, the eyes must roll, the hands should have no peace, and the throat should release all the yearning, despair and outrage that accompany the stupidity of loss. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The ongoing hypoxia, coupled with my profound fatigue, exacerbated the sense of chaos and despair. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men began to cry in their despair; some shouted curses to the wind through cracked and frostbitten lips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Waves of hot and cold flushed through her, chased by despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Thank God,” I say, which I soon realize is taking a chance: If she’s a collaborator, my response should have been neutral or despair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d cried for days when I learned I was carrying twins, and now I lay awake nights wondering whether my despair had poisoned her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Remove a bonobo from its mother, and it immediately despairs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He’d hurt too much to do anything after that, and had spent most of the day on a bench on the outskirts of the Deadheads, wallowing in despair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I also despaired because Hamlet had not come to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I would enter another zone, wrapped in despair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t the eyes themselves that caught Reynie’s heart—it was their look of total despair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh,” said Lyra, with a heavy despair in her breast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She woke later that night to hear voices—despairing, yearning voices. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z ‘And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was nothing to do but feel the despair of that moment, until after feeling it over and over I picked up my journal and wrote it down and emptied it out of me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In all his dreaming—and indeed, all his despairing—he had never foreseen this: that his impossible dream might simply...ride through the gates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And then he wept, despairing, for his own land, trudging down beside the endless wash of the wide, wide sea, weary and desolate as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, I got distracted by the teacher’s despairing cry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scram-bled swirling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My writing has raised me somewhat from “the depths of despair.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He could hear a wicked snigger followed by a cry of despair. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, they saw what they were looking for: when Mary’s doctor asked her about her plans for the future, a look of utter despair flashed across her face so quickly that it was almost imperceptible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The lookouts strained to see what lay before them, and shook their heads in despair. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I took it instead as one long message, broken into parts, terse communiques from her moments of despair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, gathering his courage, he leaped over Gollum in the dark, and fled away down the passage, pursued by his enemy’s cries of hate and despair: Thief, thief! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The magna mater!” a ghost wailed in despair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His face—hurt, bewildered, despairing—had brought it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That this woman, a stranger, could know her despair and desperation, and simply deny her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When the work was done, and the day’s punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But he didn’t give a reason why, and despair, already heavy in the room, grew crushing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I despaired of ever making a lady of her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In despair, Curly headed for the portable latrines. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair; and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In a matter of minutes, the soldiers come and lead the children away while we watch in quiet despair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His quiet voice was filled with pain, and the depth of his despair was apparent on the features of his avatar’s face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When we got home we were talking of the old time—which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He looked down at the ground in despair. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They settled in any way they could, under planks of wood and pieces of cardboard, in the midst of garbage and despair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It stank of despair and suffering and hopelessness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Jason thought back to Ithaca, when he was despairing over the visit from his mom’s spirit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Joy to despair, joy to despair, day to day, hour to hour. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Kuda clenched his little fist around the cap, and Tendai despaired of trying to explain why they couldn’t use it as money. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Later he dies when, full of despair, he makes a desperate attempt to escape from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lazlo slid from Rasalas’s back and stood before her, and if her despair was grim before that surge of joy, how wretched it was after. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now, in the face of their despair, she radiated eagerness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra’s had moved them a single inch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She shakes with such despair and joy, and her tears soak, nice and warm, through to my arm. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But no matter which way I turned, I kept running into this Gandy’s Rock wall of despair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Telemachus in despair went far away along the seashore and as he walked he prayed to Athena. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep loud “Oh-o-o-o-oh!” that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Most beautiful of all are the emotions: She feels the tides of fear, bloodlust, despair, and blind fury like a swimmer in a stormy sea, overwhelming yet thrilling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Still only eighteen, still silent, he tended sheep now, and nursed a deep despair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, oh, oh! What have you done? I’m spoiled! I can’t go! My hair, oh, my hair!” wailed Meg, looking with despair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Better, ten kilos of rice and two bars of soap,” she said, which we do need badly, but I despaired for an imaginary windfall that would bring nothing but more white starch into this house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was despairing over this latest failure, made worse by the fact that Rich seemed blind to it all. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how many times he signed one, it always came back for still another signature, and he began to despair of ever being free of any of them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Siddhartha had wanted to drown himself in this river; the old, tired, despairing Siddhartha was today drowned in it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z When they saw Arm, they retreated into the leaves with howls of despair. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I wiped my hands and laughed in despair, the taste of blood welling with the words. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He also wrote about his dogs, and made Bob famous for his hothouse face of despair. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hope flickered, and despair succeeded distress in almost every countenance. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Don’t despair. I’m going on a journey. I won’t be gone long.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The place that had been a marker of hatred and despair was now a symbol of hope and reconciliation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The world was a terrible, cruel place, a dark pit jawing open to swallow me in perpetual despair. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Maybe she’d turned bitter and cursed Percy’s girlfriend out of despair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had drunk much wine and late after midnight he went to bed, tired and yet agitated, nearly in tears and in despair. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He forced down a feeling of despair over a choice that was made and couldn’t be gone back on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And I finally found a setting for despair.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The lingering despair had disappeared with the piles of garbage. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In such a narrowed world, in order to survive, you learn to contain your rage and your despair, and you try to re-create, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of truly wishing to end one’s own life is a concept completely foreign to most post-mortals, because we can’t experience the level of pain and despair that so seasoned the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The water became shallow—the boat scraped on stone—and she despaired of escaping. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "See you soon," I say, but the words come out thick with despair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If I left now, he would fall into despair and give up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To match his frailty and strength, he has a spirit easy to despair and quick to defiance: a fierce impatient courage. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I glance at the clock, antsy with despair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Katherine asks, her voice filled with the same despair I feel. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The boys moved forward, heads down, hands up, in a gesture very like surrender and despair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I began to despair, but reminding myself of my skill in learning, I vowed to master this new subject. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But we forgot,” said the twins, in simultaneous despair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When she finished the food, her despair was complete. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had lost my beloved walking stick—I suddenly remembered propping it against a tree when I had stopped to tie a lace—and was filled with despair. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Elinor's voice was pouring rage and despair into the peaceful study. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Is there no hope for Hamlet then?” asked Horatio, sounding despairing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The only consolation is that she died much faster than they would have liked, because her body was so weak from drugs and from her infinite despair over Jaime’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I spoke in a whisper of hate and despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every part of her was trembling with cold, exhaustion, and despair. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z So I read the Psalms, especially the despairing ones, until their words become fixed in my mind, but no peace settles there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Later Neel concluded that the high death rate was in part due to grief and despair, rather than the virus itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even so they often despaired of getting their pony up, or indeed of finding a path for themselves, burdened as they were. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The architects were stunned: “they gazed,” Burnham said, “with a feeling almost of despair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She wasn’t crying, but she had a look of despair and anger and something else, an emotion that Ophie didn’t have a name for. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Alongside death and despair, this was also the period of astounding Gothic architecture, with the most extraordinary cathedrals, abbeys and churches being built all over Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While Milton fought to keep up a positive attitude, Tessie increasingly gave in to despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I grabbed her and shouted in her face and she kicked at me, and when I wouldn’t let go and she couldn’t force me to, she began to cry, just wordless howls of despair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Long periods of rain were the teachers’ despair, as the children couldn't go out and the teachers had to supervise indoor play, and everybody became frustrated and fretful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A moan of disappointment and despair went up over the country. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not but see how right he was and the terrible despair of Mina’s face became relaxed a thought; there was hope in such good counsel. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Seeds kept the living from despair, they explained. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked away and without moving asked me if I wasn’t talking that way out of extreme despair. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I would have despaired of the hopelessness and confusion. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because in a tragic moment of darkness and despair, I fell into a hole,” I said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The monster army was enough to make anyone despair, but Hazel realized that something else was going on with Percy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There are people who cannot stand being alone; perhaps he was acting from despair. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He knew that the moment he allowed himself to feel to its fulness how they lived, the shame and misery of their lives, he would be swept out of himself with fear and despair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She buried her face in the bedclothes and for the first time cried in despair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame. Don’t despair. I know we can set things right. Take me to Dale.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Finally I lay down on the bed, scared and despairing, staring blankly out the window as the sky began to turn purple, then pink, with a new day. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A man could well despair of getting home at all, if the winds blew him over the Great South Sea—that weary waste, even the wintering birds delay one winter more before the northward crossing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Another story: the emperor despairs of Ending a horse able to run a thousand li. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z My being was full of the husks of despair, dry, lifeless. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the finals in the middle of June and came away from them sick with despair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He listened intently for the small sharp cry he knew so well, and he listened with despair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His small blue eyes shone with repugnance, a look of such unreasoning contempt for my skin that it filled me with despair. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t throw up his hands in despair. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What does he want of me this time? he thought, despairing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each time they passed, Ana and Alba sang with the strength of their despair, and female voices rose from the other cells. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat with his head bowed, either in despair or in anxious thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not a time for celebration, but neither was it a time for despair. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Beiderman looked down at her in surprise, his face filled with both despair and longing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neither do I,” Ma said, and she buried her face in Minli’s bed, crying in despair. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He was frightened—for the despairing man in front of him, for himself, and his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z So I went down to the sea beach and the ship, where I found all my other men on board, weeping, in despair along the benches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Drinking from the bathtub was totally disgusting anyway,” I say, and he laughs, disrupting the tears long enough to bring him back from despair. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There he lay for a while, fighting with despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In addition to the misery of serving the gods’ “purpose,” it was her fate to watch her husband love the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If not for Aunt Tuti, I would have been lost in a vortex of jealousy and despair over a guy who had been dead for over a hundred years! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She fell backward, and he followed and gripped her hair with his left hand, feeling no pain, feeling only an immense and shattering despair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My face was always a deadpan or a mask of general friendliness; no word or event could jar me into a gesture of enthusiasm or despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “O dear me!” said I, as if I found myself compelled to give up Biddy in despair. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t despair. Call the harpies back and make them listen to us.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I prayed for courage in a blind despairing way, and dug my nails into my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what to do with the sense of hopelessness and despair that plagued me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She fretted about inflation, and the stock market crash of 1974 made her “shake and despair.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A heavy feeling of despair weighed down her arms and legs, but she realized that Ambuya needed care. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A pain throbbed in my throat and I felt a kind of numb despair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As it turned out, there were ample grounds for the volunteer’s despair. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It spoke very clearly of loss and of despair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She stopped by the door, and her face was full of despair as she looked back at Mrs. Torrance. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He leaned forward to shut the door, and the Baudelaire orphans were too overcome with despair to get a last glimpse of Mr. Poe. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But at this moment the general despair broke down into a multitude of individual quarrels. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Finally back in his stirrups and straightened out, Woolf despaired over his position. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What despair there must be in thousands of feminine breasts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The blind man was encouraged out of his despair by the optimism in Leader’s voice. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Hair safely restored beneath her hairnet, Desdemona glowered around the yard, submerged in a despair too deep for tears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One of them suddenly cried out in despair, “Let me go back. It is better to be a slave than to suffer like this in order to be free.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But you can’t bring down the swelling of despair with a bag of frozen peas and a Tylenol. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I can’t get any lobsters, so you will have to do without salad today,” said Mr. March, coming in half an hour later, with an expression of placid despair. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Alba spent two days walking around the house in circles in a state of sheer despair, going through the books in Jaime’s tunnel and on her own shelves and destroying anything that might be compromising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned to Will in despair, but he said, “Tell them the truth. Ask the alethiometer, and tell them what it says.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This despair, this extreme nausea which he had experienced had not overpowered him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Past the slips to the terrible gowns, the headdresses and fans and pots of her mother’s face paint and all the macabre accoutrements of the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Late in the despairing afternoon I stopped my truck and approached a majestic Maine state trooper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a forlorn look about it, a sense of lingering despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hearing the news in Washington, Conant despaired of obtaining so much bomb material out of Oak Ridge by any method. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was despairing of ever getting it right when one morning there was gum under the pillow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was about to despair when she felt a huge cold spot pass beneath her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Shocked and in despair, people couldn't believe it had happened again to one of their presidents. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He clenched his teeth against the pain and despair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She was uttering it, but it was bigger than she was; it felt as if the despair were uttering her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z That was why Desdemona had the despair and fatigue of a person of ninety along with the arteries of a fifty-year-old. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Each time, he'd cycle through feelings of anger, regret, longing, hope, despair, longing, anger, regret. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She had got out of bed, and was reaching for her clothes, and then she suddenly collapsed, and a fierce cry of despair enveloped her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But when Emma and Chess glanced back, their faces were anguished, their matching dark eyes full of matching despair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The idea of invisible creatures swooping through the towns and countryside, spreading despair and hopelessness in his voters, made him feel quite faint. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z To a Karhider reading our canons, the crime of Judas lies not in his betrayal of Christ but in the act that, sealing despair, denies the chance of forgiveness, change, life: his suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She sniffed and wiped her face, not sure of whether the tears coursing down her cheeks were from despair or the smoke. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z One day, in a moment of despair, he revealed that Crick made his ears buzz. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z To assume that we must resign ourselves to turning our waterways into rivers of death is to follow the counsel of despair and defeatism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Bless you," I found myself saying in a voice heavy with despair, "bless you, bless you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the month they are closing on Harrisburg, having spread panic and rage and despair through the North. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their previous despairing expressions were replaced by wide, sunny grins. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When the awareness of it strikes, a man either suffocates with despair or he turns to cling to his woman, to console and seek consolation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not with the despair with which he had looked at her over their blank and empty fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z While they recounted and sported, I pretended study, regimental discipline at that early date not having yet surrendered to the negligence of tactical despair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole—a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When the worn girl reached the gently flowing stream, a great longing seized her to throw herself into it and end all her pain and despair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They slumped in their shell in despair and disbelief. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I looked out at the scene now from far back in my despair, seeing the platform and its actors as through a reversed telescope; small doll-like figures moving through some meaningless ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in a voice of despair, “Oh, Linda, forgive me. Forgive me, God. I’m bad. I’m wicked. I’m . . . No, no, you strumpet, you strumpet!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Roach would despair of me if he saw how badly I fumbled my newfound skills. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Boots was sick, his dad was incoherent, Luxa was in shock, Aurora was wounded, and Ares was in despair. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And when Sarai saw herself in the mirror again before sending out her moths, she thought that she looked more like a wild forest spirit than the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I wasn’t paying as much attention as I should to where I was going; I was wrestling with despair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I ran blindly, boiling with outrage and despair and harsh laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Although she was slowly healing, she despaired that she would “never feel again.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If he gives up in despair because none of the dumb humans seem to understand or care, he may lie down. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do not despair, Ophelia. God’s ways are a mystery,” she says, “and our sufferings often blind us to joy.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They went in despairing grief, leaving the lovely helpless creature to meet her doom alone, and they shut themselves in their palace to mourn all their days for her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I tasted fear and despair like salt in my mouth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As I read the article I felt despair creeping over me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not kill people on their Farms: they let hunger and winter and despair do their murders for them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And the three princesses, the mothers, they crumbled in rage and despair. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I am bringing despair to our eavesdropping enemies. I am doing that right now.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z With no traditions of organized political activity behind them and nobody to look to for help since the New Deal, they live in apathy and despair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll keep on trying,” he said, as a look of despair crossed his haggard face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The gesture brought her longing coupled with despair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Many wildcatters dug dry wells, or “dusters,” and scurried away in despair. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of Snow’s rose curls up into my nose, down into my throat, squeezing it tight with despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But the dawn revealed a sight that filled Taran with despair. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z All he could taste was the pervasive and consuming despair, like soot on his tongue. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Within just a few minutes, Magdalys had gone from irritated to disappointed to bored to furious, and now she was sliding quickly toward despair. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She had russet hair and a slender neck, and wore a robe that had belonged to the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen sun was reddening even Mrs. Harker’s pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The very word begins to have a despairing and diabolical ring. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z They were motherly old women of the southern type and I suddenly felt a nameless despair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was aware of a growing sense of horror, of horror turning to despair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z About the older man, who only wore the uniform to please his brother, there was a homespun blackness, the true, despairing dark of mourning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I would not, under any circumstances, seem despairing or even disappointed to my captors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother had become increasingly unstable, until her despair had driven her crazy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Where is your life, Gabriel?” she asked, after a despairing pause. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Just here, Franny, in apparent despair at the naïveté of the question, struck her forehead with her hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I thought of Munch as I sketched, his theory that pain, love, and despair were links in an endless chain. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that womans despair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “And his father jumped off the palace roof in despair. But other than that, it was a great idea.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson summoned up a deeper level of despair, calling the Bears the clear favorites before lamenting, “We have been handicapped this year by inclement weather.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what to do, and if it weren’t for Aunt Tuti, I might have been caught in a vortex of my own confusion and despair. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what to say,” said Mrs. Hartman, her voice indignantly astonished, and also despairing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And I began to feel in the boys a curious, wary, bewildered despair, as though they were now settling in for the long, hard winter of life. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z And because of this, you feel even more despair. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They knew anger well but not despair, and they didn’t stone sinners for the same reason they didn’t commit suicide—it was beneath them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The memory of my youth was such a surprising relief from all the hatred and despair, blood and drugs that surrounded me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I couldn’t know then that I would spend the entire school year of 1958-59 in lonely isolation and despair—waiting in vain. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Darnell's despair, his sadness in recognizing that they could do whatever they wanted to him with impunity, was utterly disheartening. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The condition she’d fallen into as proof of her despair had failed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z She has thrown herself out a window in despair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kaede sat still on the beach, watching the flames grow, and she felt a thick, ashen despair settle over her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Lazlo’s wonder became its own dark inverse: not even despair, but nothingness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the hospital, her father despaired at incompetences and breakdowns in procedures, at the rough, professional hands that prodded him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we had another one of these new, despairing silences. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All this time I despaired over my momma: whether she was alive, whether she'd be happy to see me when I returned, whether I'd imagined her tenderness and her love. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then he spoke simply and easily of his accident, his hunt for work, his despair— and arrest. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the despair that any halfway brings, with the knowledge that everything you’ve gone through awaits again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn’t shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind—the temporary joy of Chuck’s trick on Gaily had long since faded away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even when yer buying stuff from him and he’s polite as can be, the despair of him seeps at you like pus from a cut. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I gave up and sat staring in despair at the vanishing pieces of fried chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z First, disappointment and despair, then a rising bitterness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Your mother and sisters need you! They are lost in despair.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Just Noise with death and despair all over it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When the choice comes, Notus the South Wind had told him, storm or fire, do not despair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Yossarian threw his arms up into the air in a gesture of mighty and despairing self recrimination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The boy thieves— what choice did they have with no homes or families—only workhouses that pretended Christian charity and dealt out despair? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At the next-heaviest atom, helium, the model began to break down, creating the anomalies that drew from Max Born his expression of despair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ophie nodded, a few shameful hot tears sliding down her cheeks as despair roiled in her belly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Altogether, his craft was a work of great skill, and Nhamo despaired of equaling it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When Cleopatra finally arrived to take Mark Antony and the survivors back to Alexandria, she found the soldiers in rags and Mark Antony in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I can admit to nothing and I am in complete despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Psyche in her despairing wanderings was trying to win the gods over to her side. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajay’s father taught Class Two, despairing that his own son was one of the slowest to learn inside a classroom. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Once, in despair, he referred to Prometheus, chained to a rock, his liver devoured daily by a vulture. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The chaplain sagged limply beneath the mountainous weight of his despair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I cover my face and grit my teeth as the tears fall, bearing the wave of despair like it is a fist, striking me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But as a reader, I did not despair. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He sank farther into his seat in despair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We drive down another identical suburban street, past endless rows of tightly spaced homes, once full of life, but now their facades look like dead faces with sagging eyes seething despair. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A pair of comely serving girls sauntered past carrying a wicker basket of rushes between them, but the sell- sword never looked, "Bronn, I despair of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We could blame it on our emo-nanites limiting our despair, but it runs far deeper than that. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she’d come to dinner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They despaired, sure that the end was near for all of them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Myanda held her stomach, and the sides of her mouth curved down with despair. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she who has such a happy name speaks to me in a despairing voice: “But, Ruthie, I have to admit, the world can be a frightening place sometimes.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A hundred dementors were advancing, gliding toward them, sucking their way closer to Harry’s despair, which was like a promise of a feast.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z My dear Miss Lydia, By now you have despaired of me and decided that I am a man who does not honor his word. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The other four kittens—Frank, Derek, Spike, and Priscilla—had moved to Finn’s barn, where the mice were now busily dying of despair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Master Cyclops, do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to our expectations. But you, Tyson—your name shall live among the Cyclopes for generations. And Miss Rachel Dare . ..” Rachel flinched when he said her name. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again—storm or fire—remember me. And do not despair.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This dismayed Bob, who would put on his “hot-house face of despair” as Charles called it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That would seem a counsel of despair, a negation of all our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When and how Hermes and Athena came to his help is not told in any story, but he must have known despair before they did so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z That was the signature of my grandmother and the Greek ladies of her generation: the kindliness of their despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When he became quieter, not less despairing but too exhausted to keep on, I said, “I’m sorry I brought up Brinker. I didn’t know you hated him so much.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a long shot, but hope was better than despair, and Ophie clung to that glimmer of a better future with clenched fists. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I saw my face on the screen crumple in despair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The earth would crack and swallow this glittering, self-important place before I would show a trace of despair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a few moments he was swept with despair, unable to think clearly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, his face showed an expression other than pain or despair: curiosity. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We have tempered our anger, frustration and despair with reason. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Little lights moving like worms frolicked before his eyes, and the breath of despair had a nasty smell. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the ladies who drowned their shame and floated in living people’s houses with their hair undone to show their everlasting despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But despair, more than filial duty, made me compliant. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was going out into the dim alley in despair when I was stopped and told to go back. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what is it?” they cried in despair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me for ever, I shudder to reflect on it. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it was that the overwhelming stench of despair and hopelessness and evil was not at all discernible to her, and she went happily down the twisting and turning stairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Yossarian was limp with exhaustion, pain and despair when he finished. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For a moment he wondered where he was, and then all the misery and despair returned to him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Put the squirrel in a sack? Hit the squirrel over the head with a shovel?” said Flora’s father in a squeaky, despairing voice. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They were almost in despair before at last they came to a little muddiness and a tiny trickle of water through softer and better grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Everywhere men were rising from their despair and dread, seizing their weapons, crying one to another: ‘Rohan has come!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Sarai suspected that her mother, the goddess of despair, would not have approved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When you are in this much pain and despair, she tells them, there is only one place to find strength. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Idabelle, as if sensing my despair, climbed from her basket and came over to butt her wide forehead against my shins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z |
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