Then in frantic desperation he had taken this only means of acquiring a sum of money quickly.
It required almost another week of idling in the refreshment parlor, of vain hopes, and ebbing interest on the part of the scout partner, to bring Pepsy to the state of desperation needed for her terrible enterprise.
Clarges in desperation began to urge the folly of being true to men who did not keep their side of the engagement.
In desperation he determined to force the pass at Portnahinch, but on reaching it he found the river so swollen that it was impassable for foot.
There was no ammunition, not a gun was mounted, the dock-yard hands had not been paid for months, and in desperation nearly the whole of them had deserted.
When pandemonium finally broke loose in the house, Myga had begged Jan in desperation to hide.
In desperation Leone della Rota hurled himself at his nearest enemy, encouraging his men to resistance with words and actions.
Half in desperation Captain Valani tried to put a stop to the noise being made by his crazy friend, but it was already too late.
The pretty child appeared to him in her desperation all the more charming.
She does not now invoke Him as the Son of David, nor tell her sorrow over again, but flings herself in desperation on His pity, with the artless and unsupported cry, wrung from her agony, as she sees the hope of help fading away.
When, however, the project was broached to the men of Albi, they refused peremptorily to embark in it, and there can be no stronger proof of the desperation of the Carcassais than their resolution to persist in it single-handed.
In their desperation they disregarded this warning; a deputation was sent to the court, and this time they were listened to.
The gentlest creatures are fierce when they have young to provide for, and in that wolfish society the struggle for bread borrowed a peculiar desperation from the tenderest sentiments.
The Catalans, driven to desperation by the exactions and insolence of the polyglot rabble of troops quartered upon them, had risen and massacred every Castilian soldier and officer they could hound down.
The agony and desperation of the people were intense, and utter despair consumed the hearts and lives of the people.
Even at that early age she was utterly lost and abandoned; and she only married Captain Hunsden in a fit of mad desperation and rage because John Thorndyke, her lover, scornfully refused to make her his wife.
He drove Edward, his valet, to the verge of madness with his whims, and left off at last in sheer desperation and altogether dissatisfied with the result.
Be firm, determined, and cool; but let it be understood that you are not to be driven to desperation without making it an awful dear job to others as well as to you.
Their "hearts throbbed" with a single mighty purpose--an ambition worthy of the desperation of their adventure.
He had been at Santo Domingo but a few days when the report was brought that two of the caciques in the neighbourhood of La Concepcion were driven to desperation by the Spaniards' rule, and were planning a revolt.
All the houses were abandoned as soon as the Spaniards approached; and while they were pursuing the natives the latter suddenly turned, faced them, and threw themselves upon our soldiers with the desperation of men driven from their homes.
After Valdivia's departure the colonists, driven to desperation by hunger, resolved to explore the outline of the gulf, of which the most remote extremity is about eighty miles distant from the entrance.
Will Faces Desperation and Stands at Bay Rising at daybreak next morning, Will's eyes lighted in his first glance from the window on Christopher's blue-clad figure commanding the ploughed field on the left of the house.
With rash desperation he took that white hand in his, covered it with kisses soft as the fall of thistledown, dropped it and glided from the room.
The curse which she uttered in her desperation calls louder and louder upon her children.
Exhausted by his efforts, and sick of desperation and despair, Haig sank back weakly against the rock.
In his desperation he took the boldest course, and made a more aggressive speech by far than any he had rehearsed for the occasion, and forgotten.
Penrod; and in desperationhe drew forth from his pocket his entire fortune.
Chris did not attempt to fire, but obeyed the impulse of trying to get his mount to rise again, with the full intent of flinging himself upon its back and galloping in desperation through the enemy.
This scene was still more horrible, for as soon as this order was obeyed and they were being burned cries of agony and desperation proceeded from those victims who were still alive.
But desperation lent them new strength and they made several bold sorties which seriously damaged the enemy.
In the Potomac the bass were not biting but the mosquitoes were and betwixt hope and desperation they had turned into the canal.
In desperation we sought a restaurant--and in two minutes regretted that we had not prepared our own luncheon on the boat.
From her fruitless efforts at the barred door, she rushed in desperationto the grated window.
Even in his straits, however, desperationgave him a certain pluck.
But the courage ofdesperation came to her, and she struck into the song.
We sat down on the carpet of desperation and the stools of despair.
They might be driven todesperation when they saw what succour we had received.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desperation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apathy; dejection; despair; desperation; despondency; melancholy; misery; prostration; sloth
