These were thrown despairingly aside; and the besieged, once more grasping their rifles, sprang back into the waggons--each with eager eye searching for an assailant.
While thusdespairingly reflecting, they take note of something that restores their disturbed equanimity.
We must die, Walt," said the young prairie merchant, as he faced despairingly toward his companion.
No matter how many, they had succeeded in their design, and their victims were now helplessly enclosed in the dark catacomb--slowly, despairingly to perish.
Men despairingly acknowledged that the system itself was utterly past cure.
But you," he despairingly said, "you know not love!
But," despairingly exclaimed the cardinal, "you require of me a service that it is not in my power to perform.
Serge's fever returned, and he spent a day of suffering, with his eyes despairingly fixed upon the curtains through which the light now fell dim and ashy grey as in a cellar.
When I recollect how utterly crushed down I felt, seven years ago, when their mother died, and Aunt Magdalen refused help, and how despairingly I prayed, I feel all the more that there is an answer to even feeble almost worldly prayer.
But, after a few seconds' thought, he would shake his head despairingly and again spur forward.
The lady shrunk from his words, covered her face with her hands, and despairingly shook her head.
Primmie wept no more into the dishwater nor sighed despairingly when serving breakfast.
Now, like some sleepy antique dame belated after a revelry, it waits despairingly by the turn of the road for Father Time and his band of winds to sweep it away.
Theophilus turned from the window, and looked despairingly at that young Colossus, Thor.
I looked despairingly to right and left at the beautiful tree-hung river-side, and then forward to where the boy had just reached the boat, and saw him climb in, the sun shining upon his wet back.
Barbara pulled her cloak over her chest and ran despairingly into the house.
But above everything else Dario missed the Corso, and suffered despairingly at no longer seeing or learning anything by watching the procession of Roman society from four to five each afternoon.
So now, at daybreak, the humans looked about despairingly for death to come to them.
An hour later they realized despairingly that they were marching helpless through puffballs which would make the air unbreathable at dawn.
He--" But the man before him had fallen backdespairingly to his old position.
I not see her borne despairinglyaway in a canoe that is but just lost to sight?
A sergeant shot through the hips raised himself on his hands and gazed despairingly after the retiring battalion.
He looked despairingly at Keene; something in the latter’s expression sent his glance beyond, and joy rushed back to his heart.
Harvey pounded despairingly at the bell, for he feared they might be sunk at any minute, and he jumped at Dan's hail as the crew came back.
All these things made him grunt despairingly and think of his mother.
His full lips pouted despairingly beneath his neat mustache shining in the glare, and there was an aggrieved expression in his small sparkling eyes.
He was suddenly depressed and gazed at her with an open almost despairinglyinterrogative expression.
She was too late, and feeling herself slipping forward, she grasped despairingly at the first thing that came to her hand, which chanced to be Leonard's ankle.
Juanna looked despairinglyat Leonard, who sat by her side pulling at his beard, as was his fashion when perplexed.
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