单词 | slough of despond |
例句 | Ambition led me down many dark roads and into sloughs of despond. The Great American Dream Value Menu: The hard truths nobody tells young people about their dreams 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z As Wayne hauls himself up from his slough of despond, he seems all-but primed to be sent tumbling right back down again. The Dark Knight Rises – first review 2012-07-16T15:10:08Z Far from being happy, I am wallowing in the slough of despond. I thought I had hit the age of peak happiness. How wrong I was 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z I love good comeback stories, even if the comeback, as was the case with the two Giant pitchers, is pulled off from something shallower than the slough of despond that someone like Blass fell into. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z “The Unfolding” suggests no solutions to this plight, but it offers irresistible reflection on how the audacity of hope got pushed off the rails and fell into the slough of despond. Review | A.M. Homes traces the frightening (and hilarious) roots of GOP decay 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Anything less, and it’s a descent into the slough of despond. Leeds v Tottenham: Premier League – live! 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z It radically forwarded the Romantic politics of non-participation in mainstream ideologies and orthodoxies, especially that slough of despond we call patriotism. Critic Curtis White: Capitalism needs workers who are "stupid-smart" 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Good, good, just as well, because the bottom two face off at St Mary’s this evening, and whoever loses this will find themselves careering hysterically towards the slough of despond. Southampton v Watford: Premier League – live! 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Devi sometimes fears she herself will sink into a slough of despond. Verge Fiction: An excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The father of fracking Aug 3rd 2013 | THE United States has of late been in a slough of despond. Schumpeter: The father of fracking 2013-08-01T15:03:34Z So let's get overly excited anyway, even if we know a slough of despond deeper than the bunkers at Lytham await us. Ryder Cup 2012: day three – live! 2012-09-30T12:46:28Z In a slump, but not the slough of despond. The Open 2012: David Duval in love with life and Lytham 2012-07-18T21:52:26Z Tennyson ambles through it on a palfrey which has a tendency to flounder into every slough of despond it comes to. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He was more than ever determined to draw Gauguin out of the slough of despond into which he was falling, and to work together with him for the better establishment of both their reputations. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z It had to end some time, and end it did; and when the end came all the Isthmus lapsed into a slough of despond and lethargy of inertia. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z “I don't like the looks of this slough of despond,” said Mary. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z Only something new, something difficult and extraordinary would lift her from the hopeless slough of despond into which she had found herself precipitated. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z He felt himself plucked out of the slough of despond.” Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Souls are such slaves to bodies it is hard to keep up out of the slough of despond when nerves jangle and flesh aches. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z How he ever pulled through this slough of despond, he himself could not possibly tell. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z The "slough of despond" was so very literal in this case. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Is it not just, Ellis, that it should be you who should drag me out of the slough of despond, since it was you who flung me into it?—However, now for your commission. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z Bearing all the above facts in mind, can we believe the Indian capable of drawing mongrel-ruled America from its slough of despond? The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z But in deep and prayerful meditation, thinking long on the great mercy of God and of the propitiation Christ had given, he felt his soul slowly emerge from the slough of despond. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z Balls is not wrong about the need to drag the economy from its slough of despond. George Osborne does not have a plan B, but there is a plan A+ 2011-07-24T20:00:06Z His career in the majors, not much more than a decade long, is more bell curve than rollercoaster – sloughs of despond bookending one monumental high. The Joy of Six: Open nightmares 2011-07-15T09:44:42Z One day we have full view of the delectable mountains, on another day we are mired in the slough of despond. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Religious motives probably form the best possible source of suggestions that enable a patient to lift himself out of the slough of despond of chronic alcoholism. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But these delegates represented only the revolutionary element of the battalions, and the Hôtel-de-Ville plunged more and more into a slough of despond. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z It did indeed make the "slough of despond" look like the rocky road to Dublin. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Roland's schemes were not successful; they were not successful because he had no patience to survive preliminary failure, and wade on to ultimate success through a slough of despond and discouragement. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The transport and the carriers struggled with equal courage through the slough of despond, trying to get up rations to their cold and hungry comrades and ammunition wanted by riflemen and machine-gunners. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Just when Ruzsky was planning his retirement a complete thaw set in, and in a few days the whole countryside was one slough of despond. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z Constance was now fairly immersed in that slough of despond, debt; for instead of paying away her money regularly, and in order, it was here a little and there a little. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z The Bonanza trail makes 'the slough of despond' look like the rocky road to Dublin! The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Oh," she whispered, "am I to escape from this 'slough of despond'—am I to have my chance in life? A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z It is out of this slough of despond in medical education that we have climbed in the last thirty-five years. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z However, don't slump into a slough of despond – au contraire, simply learn to interpret facts; fashion them, if you like, to your advantage. My hungry wisdom 2010-12-31T22:00:00Z This week it's back to the slough of despond. Chess: How to continue the attack? 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z But the latest incremental improvement may help lift the field out of the slough of despond. Quantum computing: A quantum hop 2010-06-24T11:19:00Z It’s the prospect that our economy, climbing weakly out of a severe recession, might tumble back into the financial slough of despond. 2010-01-09T19:58:00Z "We are all pilgrims; and there is for each of us some slough of despond, through which we must struggle to the happy valley." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 His spirit was the spirit of the immortals; it raised itself out of the slough of despond. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 She was back again in the slough of despond which had followed the memorable visit to the doctor. A Question of Marriage When Carlyle was in the 'slough of despond,' he bethought him of Jeffrey, this time as editor of the Edinburgh Review. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Presently, as we enter a perfect slough of despond, we see a man before us scraping the mire with a hoe vigorously, as we come in sight. An American Girl Abroad He seems lost in thought, sunk in a very slough of despond, out of which it seems impossible to him he can ever be extricated. Portia or By Passions Rocked Though scattered to the ends of the earth, never again has he fallen into this pit of iniquity and this slough of despond. Training the Teacher His faith, like strong wings, bears him high above all sloughs of despond, all morasses of moodiness. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part You see, Sir Walter, into what "sloughs of despond" we German translators fall--with the sad necessity of dragging your honor after us. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. In like manner we call today for more faith in a way out of the slough of despond, more resolute endeavor to improve social and economic conditions. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency The victory of Bragg has lifted a mountain from the spirits of the people, and another victory would cast the North into the “slough of despond.” A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital An hour ago I was wallowing in the slough of despond; now I am skittering on the heights once more. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars They found him in the man who had pulled the Wabash out of a similar slough of despond. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways The boatswain slouched over the bar, deep descended into the slough of despond. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story From the slough of despond she was being drawn into the glory of hope. The Peace of Roaring River He never got fairly clear of that lamentable slough of despond into which his follies had plunged him. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I have followed the opposite path all my life; and it led right into the slough of despond. Carmen Ariza "And in the mean time will you help me pull him out of his slough of despond?" she asked, smiling with the old, frank, intimate manner. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author If it was impossible to live with her now, he might, at any rate, have stretched out his hand long ago, and rescued her from the slough of despond into which she had fallen. Name and Fame A Novel Every old pleasure is a slough of despond. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry We shall not pity the reader whom we have dragged through Garretson's Exercises, if we can save one trembling little pilgrim from that "slough of despond." Practical Education, Volume II It is a good thing one is able to get off the marble pavements into the cars without having far to go, for the streets are at times mere sloughs of despond. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure "I hope you will now proceed to rescue me from the slough of despond by telling me that you love me and will marry me?" Bandit Love You need a strong hand on the lever Of good common sense, and an earnest endeavor To pull yourself out of the slough of despond Back into the highway of peace just beyond. Three Women The forest of M’Bonga has great tracts of this boggy, pestiferous land, dreadful sloughs of despond caverned with foliage, and by some curse the rubber vines entrench themselves with these. The Pools of Silence "It sounds pretty bad," admitted Heavy, coming out of her momentary slough of despond. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers He did not sink into a slough of despond. The Bertrams If, as you say, you brought about this painful situation, then you must sit patiently by and watch me as I flounder about in the various sloughs of despond.” Patty's Success “And don’t you see you are cutting the last piece of ground from beneath your feet—letting yourself sink at once into a slough of despond?” Witness to the Deed Her occupants got down and tried with their united efforts to push her out of her "slough of despond", but with no effect. A harum-scarum schoolgirl "Cheer up, Sis!" he exclaimed again, knowing that if he could only start her to talking she would soon drag herself out of her slough of despond. Mary Ware's Promised Land A cemetery by the sea, a peak of glory, a slough of despond. The Short Life Because he had sunk into the slough of despond, he would be heedless of the mud that gathered on his garments. Julian Home I only wanted a helping hand to lift me out of the slough of despond. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient This news overshadowed the transient gleam from Hampton Roads and Kernstown; plunging the public mind into a slough of despond, in which it was to be sunk deeper and deeper with each successive despatch. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death From this slough of despond he is lifted—how? The Chief End of Man A supper celebrated the last evening; and even the doleful Lavinia, touched by such kindness, emerged from her slough of despond and electrified the ball by dancing a jig with great spirit and grace. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag It raised the country from a slough of despond to happiness, cheerfulness, confidence. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Adjutant Wilson, in the next tent, is endeavoring to lift himself from the slough of despond by humming a ditty of true love; but the effort is evidently a failure. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer The world may be his footstool, and may be his slough of despond, but is never his final end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 We have a picture of this middle-aged man, clerking for his younger brothers in a country store, at eight hundred dollars a year, and day by day sinking further into the slough of despond. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers I think if that could be done he would come out of the slough of despond and be worth something. Frank Merriwell's Reward "Do you remember what a slough of despond you were in a year ago?" Cicely and Other Stories Raising himself out of the slough of despond, he resolutely re-fed his soul with hope. The Way of the Wind Now I was not altogether alone in the world; there was a hope of my being rescued from the "slough of despond," where I had been so long floundering. Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers We but advance into sloughs of despond, led by wills of the wisp; and the girl mediums, the so-called clairvoyantes, invariably lose mental health and physical strength. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 The request came usually at a time when Yale's football was in the slough of despond. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball I wish I could rouse her out of the slough of despond. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts It is because this subjective contrast is so absolutely essential to the consciousness of power,—it is for this reason that the "sloughs of despond" still have their function in our new attitude toward drill. Craftsmanship in Teaching He listened in a cold black fury, but fell soon into a slough of despond. Carette of Sark It was only due to those real friends that I was saved from slipping into a slough of despond from which I might never have hoped to rise. Fanny Goes to War Nothing but rain, pouring rain, for the next few days, washing the walls of snow down the unmetaled streets, a very slough of despond to all beasts of burden. Bluebell A Novel Compelled to apparently jilt Laurence, Mary Virginia sank deeper and deeper into the slough of despond. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man The progress of any individual depends upon his ability to pass through these sloughs of despond,—to set his face resolutely to the task and persevere. Craftsmanship in Teaching All others lead only to a slough of despond, or the deeper and more treacherous slough of contentment, beyond which rise no delectable mountains or golden city. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Give to capital the ground of perpetuity of tenure, whereon to plant its machinery, and it will soon lift this island from the slough of despond. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times That night, Weary rode home beside Happy Jack and tried to lift him out of the slough of despond. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories But only a St. Francis Xavier or a Livingstone, a great moral force, could lift the people now from the slough of despond in which they expire. White Shadows in the South Seas The psychologists call them "plateaus of growth," but some one has said that "sloughs of despond" would be a far better designation. Craftsmanship in Teaching Glory Goldie tried to rouse her mother from her slough of despond, as she had often done in the old days. The Emperor of Portugalia Another effort and we were still in our slough of despond. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life He is, indeed, a pilgrim who struggles out of one slough of despond only to fall waist-deep into another. The Art of Letters Israel, on the other hand, seemed to be sinking deeper and deeper into the slough of despond. Chapters on Jewish Literature The streets, as I saw them after rain, are veritable sloughs of despond, but they are capable of being changed by dry weather into deserts of dust. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 I have been wallowing in the slough of despond for a week and my digestive apparatus has gone wrong again. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The Happy Family knew that Luck was wading chin deep in the slough of despond, and they decided that he kept them riding all day just for pure cussedness. The Phantom Herd Why, if one individual rarely gifted by heaven were to raise himself out of such a slough of despond, he would be a miracle; and what would be his reward? Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 Aunt Victoria taking them, naturally enough, as signs of continued remorse, lifted her out of this supposed slough of despond with affectionate peremptoriness. The Bent Twig The China war is a slough of despond: the further we advance the more we shall flounder, until we are half ruined by our successes. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. The astonishing thing is, that Browning emerged from the slough of despond at just the time when most young men are entering it. Robert Browning: How to Know Him I suppose if I must pull you out of this slough of despond, I must. Marjorie's New Friend She seemed to be stuck in a sort of slough of despond, and could not move in any direction to get out of it. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day In 1832, Lincoln, elected to the Illinois legislative chamber, found himself in one of those anguishing embarrassments besetting him in all the early stages of his unflagging ascent from the social slough of despond. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form When out in quest of snipe I have sometimes had to choose between crossing by one of those bridges, innocent of even a handrail, and wading through the black slough of despond which it spanned. Concerning Animals and Other Matters It had raised Amy out of the slough of despond into which she had unwittingly strayed, or been thrust. The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health Pris heard the lamentations, and giving up fresh ribbons for herself, pulled her sister out of a slough of despond with two yards of "heavenly tulle." Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories Their mood will be a heaven of exaltation and exhilaration, and then descend into a slough of despond from which they feel themselves inextricable. The Glands Regulating Personality Take away its banks and it spreads all over creation and becomes a stagnant slough of despond. Happiness and Marriage It is the whippoorwill—steadily, continuously, entrancingly the dulcet measure is taken up and echoed, until the slough of despond seems transformed into a varying diapason of melancholy minstrelsy. The Iron Game A Tale of the War "I confess I owe you all I now enjoy of fame," he said, "for I had allowed myself in 1861 to sink into a perfect 'slough of despond.'" Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 I was deep in a very slough of despond when suddenly things began to happen. The Little Nugget If she is what she seems, it's barely possible that she might help me out of this horrible 'slough of despond,' if she would take the trouble. Opening a Chestnut Burr He was sorely disgruntled at the time and so disconsolate later on that it required Zachariah's startling comment to lift him out of the slough of despond. Viola Gwyn Still, this would not help him out of his present slough of despond. Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will Oh, if some generous, large-brained man would drag her out of that slough of despond!—What a marriage that was! The Emancipated And sure enough, usually within a few days after such a conversation the patient is down in the slough of despond. Nature Cure But she soon had him out of his slough of despond, and climbing the hills of hope again with something of his old gallant air. Sisters I certainly should have been deep in the slough of despond, if not in the grave. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures So I said, I am a silly lover and an ignorant, whom passion and my folly have moved to do as thou seest, so that I am fallen into this slough of despond.' The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 The officer's laughter was loud at the corner of the next traverse, when there was an abrupt descent into a slough of despond. Now It Can Be Told Sometimes memory slips through the crust, only to sink in the grim "slough of despond." Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course In what a slough of despond had he come to wallow in consequence of his folly on that night at Gatherum Castle! Framley Parsonage But the fact of the matter is,” said the shrewd-headed guide, “Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his own mind; and a slough that he carried everywhere with him.” Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) And now a stranger visiting them would declare that they are wallowing in a very slough of despond. North America — Volume 2 But it is very certain that those of his friends who have the power should exert themselves to raise him out of this fearful slough of despond. New Grub Street He was born in a cottage, long fallen, and hard by was a marshy place, “a veritable slough of despond.” Essays in Little Apart from it, the agricultural department long remained a sort of slough of despond; but at last a brighter day dawned. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 “Yes, he had, I think, a slough of despond in his mind, a slough that he carried everywhere with him, or else he never could have been the man he was.” Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) You had to go through it, your slough of despond. Paul Kelver, a Novel Madeline felt that she must get him somehow back into his slough of despond. The Pool in the Desert |
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