She was managing her small resources with desperate skill.
He had paused as for the desperate tone, or at least the large emphasis of it, so that she took him up.
La Candidature of Joinville was in every way unwise, and led Louis Napoleon to take so desperate a course.
Courts which have already every inclination to follow their desperate course?
The two queens, rendered desperate by finding in the two princes such virtue as should have made them look inwardly on themselves, renounced all sentiments of nature and of mothers and conspired together to destroy them.
I am distracted; and I fear shall commit some action unworthy myself, in the deplorable and desperate condition I am reduced to, unless you assist me with your prudent advice.
With a wave of desperate homesickness he threw himself on the big davenport and buried his face into a pile of cushions.
It was only by desperate effort that Zizi kept from laughing, for of all fads or whims, spiritism seemed to her the worst and most foolish.
He yelled, screamed, whistled, hooted, and put all of his strength and nerve force in his desperate efforts to reach the ears of his comrades.
Fortunately, only two of them had firearms; and the majority, seeing at once what chance they would stand against mounted men who were desperate and well armed, fled like chamois down the slopes.
Yet he dared not place his few men between two forces of desperate maniacs.
It seemed as if the courage of Haarlem had been unavailing, for gibbets rose on all sides to exhibit the leaders of the desperate resistance.
Leyden was relieved by the desperate device of cutting the dykes and opening the sluices to flood the land around it.
Poland made a desperate struggle to assert her independence in 1830, when Nicholas the Autocrat was reigning over Russia.
It was a desperate measure, and was discovered and frustrated at the last moment.
She {151} seemed in desperate straits, the victim of treachery, for Frederick had promised to support her.
The old desperate rivalry had broken out again now that the French saw a chance of regaining power in India.
A desperate resolve began to formulate itself in the brain of Peaches Austin.
Hearing this, he made a desperate jump over my bed, and was out with me in a moment; but he afterwards confessed that he was most dreadfully alarmed.
This I did wish most sincerely, for I felt that, having once resolved to undertake the desperate service in which I had volunteered, the sooner I was in action the better.
This accounts for the desperate manner in which they fought and struggled to keep the post.
After a short time they found it would not do; so, my situation, instead of a task, was at last a pleasure to me; and the sight of my whip was sufficient to deter the most desperate from exceeding his limits.
I looked on at a short distance from the scene of action, and a desperate hard struggle it was.
Our brave sepoys mounted the breach like heroes; but at the top the fight seemed desperate on both sides, and at one time we thought our men were giving way.
These were signals of alarm, and we could not expect anything less than a desperate effort to drive us down the ghaut again; for the prevention of which every possible preparation was promptly made.
The enemy fought furiously before they gave up the hill; indeed, many of them rushed upon our bayonets in the most reckless anddesperate manner.
Dumaresq; "but it is a desperate scheme, and I do not believe that anybody but a Briton would have thought of it, much less talked of it so coolly as you have done.
The mere knowledge that Dolores was alive and true to him seemed to have changed the hunted and desperate outlaw almost beyond recognition.
Themselves desperate with hunger and isolation, they had resolved to strike a blow which would ring from one end of Spain to the other.
And verydesperate and bloody some of 'his own' were.
So desperate were her struggles that it was all he could do to confine her feet by passing them under his arm, while with one great palm he grasped two flat and meagre wrists in a grip of steel.
El Sarria, by his reputation for desperate courage, for a while kept the mob from deeds of violence and spoliation.
Shame of this kind has often more to do with acts of desperate courage than certain other qualities more besung by poets.
But yet when he told her of the desperate quest on which he was bound, that which had been glad became filled with foreboding, and the false dawn died out again utterly.
If Miss Stearns wins against Miss Seaton at the new try-out it will be by pure luck," declared Selina, with a desperate attempt at retrieving her previous incautious remark.
She also found herself engaged in a desperate struggle to rule her own rebellious spirit.
Marian Seaton's desperate inquiry, when at five minutes to eight she entered her room, following a fruitless search for her cousin.
Marian had decided to make a last desperate attempt to crawl out of the snarl she was in.
At last it came to the scene where Brutus' aggregation gets driven across the stage by Antony's offering a desperate resistance.
Another desperate spurt and the Harvard bow comes up even again, but holds there less than a minute, and another beautiful effort of the Yale crew sends their boat farther ahead than before.
It is a gambler's bet and a rather desperate one," he said slowly.
I'm not," he asserted, in feebly desperate determination.
She knew that she had done a desperate thing; and she felt that everybody had good reason for shrinking away from her large deep eyes.
This account of Hilary’s desperate behaviour, as I must call it upon sound reflection, leads me to consider the great probability of something happening to him.
Burning to be first, as he always did in every desperate conflict, Major Clumps saw the young fellows get in front of him, and his temper exploded always.
Paddy from Cork had brought home word from Maidstone only yesterday, that a desperate fight had been fought in Spain, and almost everybody had been blown up.
Hesitation was thenceforth banished; and being driven by nature, as usual, rather with a spur than bridle, he made a strong dash at a desperate fence which for months had been puzzling him.
Her mind was in utter confusion yet as to anything that had befallen her; except that she had some sense of having done some desperate deed, which had caused more trouble than she was worthy of.
I told you I believed I should be able to show you a better way out of your troubles than the desperate one that you were purposing to take; and now I will make good my promise.
I am a very desperate woman, and shall not mind consequences.
No matter what anguish you may be suffering, no matter to what desperate straits your affairs may be arrived, you have no right to attempt your life.
But we may fancy how desperate would be the strife between a python and the venomous bushmaster of Demerara.
Von Huten and his band, after desperate fighting, were compelled to retire, just as they believed they had seen in the far-off distance the shining roofs of the splendid city.
He will also, when hard-pressed, take the most desperate leaps to avoid his foes.
The bucks often enter into desperate contests with each other, battling--with their huge horns--the fight frequently ending only with the death of the weaker rival.
Early in the spring the males frequently engage in desperate battles.
Schombergh once saw an enormous cayman seize one of a smaller species, and bear it away--not, however, without a desperate struggle.
Stories are told of desperate encounters between travellers in the forests of the Amazon and pythons or boas.
The image of his nakedness so distressed her by continually coming before her mind that she made the most desperate efforts to repress it, finally partially succeeding.
He was a desperate man, in a desperate position, and though hope had fled his heart, the spirit of revenge rankled deep.
These desperate projects, which the besieged were thought quite capable of executing, were soon known in the Spanish camp.
The reckless and unprincipled freebooter was no longer to serve a cause which was more sullied by his barbarity than it could be advanced by his desperate valor.
The besieged welcomed them with rapture, and, as usual, made daily the most desperate sallies.
Desperate and frequent were the struggles within gangways so narrow that nothing but daggers could be used, so obscure that the dim lanterns hardly lighted the death-stroke.
She turned on her back and floated awhile, to collect herself, and then, keeping her eyes on a certain shadowy outline in the fog, she struck out again with desperate coolness.
With a desperate effort to resign himself, he at length replies,-- "Dear Gwen!
It will certainly be highly interesting to discover how many innocent people have actually been the victims of this desperate and relentless trio who dealt secret death in order to enrich themselves," remarked the superintendent.
In his desperate efforts to ask them to call assistance, his hands pawed the air convulsively, and then, of a sudden, he felt himself collapsing, and all became blank.
For making a last stand for the right to their pitiful sordid lives, the criminals herded together in one desperate band when danger threatened any of the brotherhood.
Desperate and at bay, he rather feebly steadied himself for a last defense.
