Tis no despairing strife-- We fall--but our expiring breath Is freedom's breath of life!
Uncle Joe, coming up in time to hear Kitty's despairing cry.
With a despairing sense of being caught she looked down at her tell-tale clothes and the unslept-in bed.
Thank you," he gasped out, in one last despairing effort.
But in Panna Yadviga every impression would have risen to self-consciousness; despairing struggles of the soul would have expressed themselves in no less despairing, and therefore very dramatic, words and thoughts.
But the despairing Cinna strove against hope to save her.
Cinna looked from moment to moment at Antea, and for the thousandth time despairing thoughts flew through his head.
She broke down utterly, turning away from the piano with a sob, and, flinging out her hands in a despairing gesture, cried out that she could not sing, that she never should be able to sing and that she might as well go.
She had a hard time not to cry out with the pain of this horrible fear, and the kind eyes of the experienced Tancredi caught her despairing look.
Not so, she, patient still as ever, dwells Beneath thy roof, but all her cheerless days Despairing wastes, and all her nights in tears.
Turning from the contemplation of the hopeless failure of prayer the lament naturally falls into an almost despairing wail of grief.
It was the prayer of utter extremity, almost the last wild cry of a despairing soul, yet not quite, for that is no prayer at all, all prayer requiring some real faith, if only as a grain of mustard seed.
He saw nothing of anything but the despairing picture in his own mind.
Worked into a thorough muddle with his worry, he was almost despairing again when suddenly he remembered that Jessie possessed a Bible.
He read the despairing thought, perhaps unconscious, of a woman upon whom repentance has begun its work.
In the first rush of despairing rage Suffering Creek was unable to even surmise at the identity of the authors of the outrage.
Orders had been issued to forbid all crossing the lines, and the despairing kinsfolk of the lost were in a panic of impatient terror.
His last despairing glance caught a body of jet black horses galloping wildly into the dispersing ranks of blue.
Reaching his perch again, Jack cast his despairing eyes toward the fatal hill.
A roar of applause from Billy's, a despairing groan from Bashan's, proclaimed the accuracy of the kick.
With a feeble despairing stroke of his webbed feet, he strove to get back to the surface.
When at last that terrible and despairing head had vanished, and nothing remained but a long convulsion of the mud, the raccoon came daintily down from his post of observation, and examined the remains of the hornets' nest.
Fleur-de-Marie, in a tone so despairing that Clemence shuddered.
Florestan in the most pathetic anddespairing tone.
Angela, with a despairing gesture, clasped her hands together.
So might a despairing soul beat against the gates of hell and summon the devil to single combat.
A despairing cry soon resounded through the house where the young girl's inexhaustible goodness had won all hearts.
All the efforts of the despairing father were vain.
Ay, and that too had been one of the despairing thoughts which rushed across my mind as the truth of what had happened forced itself upon me.
Despairing of finding something to praise in the Punjaub we passed over into Pegua--John's also.
So by degrees his spirit bent To mock its own despairing cry, In stern self-torture to invent New luxuries of agony, And people all the vacant space With visions of her perfect face.
His face shines out against the sky, Like a ghost, so cold and white; With a dead despairing eye Gazing through the gathered night.
The gap was immediately filled up; no one remarked, or cared for, the poor, despairing child.
In all the world our despairing Madelon could turn her thoughts nowhere at this crisis but to the good, unconscious Madame Bertrand, the one friend to whom she could apply, and who might perhaps be willing to assist her.
And then presently, going upstairs to look for this happy, triumphant Madelon, she found her crouching on the floor, trying to stifle the sound of her despairing sobs.
They had endured the three hours of my absence with intolerable anxiety and alarm; until, almost despairing of beholding me again, they had resolved on going back without me.
Although despairing of escape, he groped with his hands to discover what it was that thus detained him, and found he had fallen through a bark canoe, the bottom of which had been turned upwards.
He gave a shrill, piping, despairing cry, and the next moment made a rush for the door, his cashmere dressing-gown flying behind him like brilliant wings.
Oliver looked about him with helplessly despairing eyes.
As the time grew nearer for my funeral the more despairing I got.
