Despondency had begun to seize the minds of the soldiers.
These verses the poet, in his common-place book, calls "Misgivings in the Hour of Despondency and Prospect of Death.
All this, after all, was more sensible than giving way to the despondency which they could not help feeling at times.
But although they had crossed the river they had much before them, and a fearful amount of despondency prevailed.
Despondency fled from the ship, and Lieutenant Pim received a welcome which he will never forget.
They ceased; and now Richard fell into such despondency that his father in alarm had to take measures to hasten their return to Raynham.
Sorrow, and the despondency consequent on great bodily exhaustion, had tempted Mme.
There come upon me, more and more, moments ofdespondency when I say to myself that this is only another enchanted circle.
What I must have been in early childhood I cannot tell; but before I was ten years old I was the object of all the despondency and evil forebodings of my relations.
As the appointed day drew near, Isora's despondency seemed to vanish, and she listened, with her usual eagerness in whatever interested me, to my Continental schemes of enterprise.
The world was full of sunshine, and, though the faces of the passers-by were anxious and unsmiling, there was no despondency about them.
Roebuck, on the contrary, was hopeful and energetic, and often took occasion to rally the other on his despondency under difficulties, and his almost painful want of confidence in himself.
Yet a period--a transition state--of doubt and despondency is perhaps common to men in proportion to their natural dispositions to faith and veneration.
In vain did William increase the rations of provisions, and supply them with larger portions of strong liquor--the same low feeling of despondency reigned along the shore and in the ships.
But it was like the light before death; for when a full month had passed and no answer came, she fell into a state of despondency far more dark and gloomy than that which preceeded this momentary brightening.
But whatever there was of personal discouragement or despondency in this letter was only a temporary frame of mind.
Barrionuevo mentions a malicious caricature which was current in the palace (1655, satirising Philip's helpless despondency in the face of universal corruption.
Sidenote: Philip bewitched] Philip was tired of the struggle, weary of the sordid intrigues around him, and he fell into gloomy despondency that banished from him all interest in life.
All the despondency of her life became present to her again as she sate down within her home.
Gwyn, with the despondency which had chilled him taking flight.
He was roused from this mood of despondency by Gumbo's grinning face at his door, who said a lady was come to see Master Harry, and behind the lad came the lady in the capuchin, of whom we have just made mention.
I have many such benefactions registered in my heart--precious welcome fountains springing up in desert places, kind, friendly lights cheering our despondency and gloom.
I also went to the Museum of the Capitol; and the statues seemed to me more beautiful than formerly, and I was not sensible of the cold despondency with which I have so often viewed them.
There is no other despondency like this; it is a new shade of human misery, akin to the physical disease that comes from dryrot in a wall.
Sunk in despondency and vice, he was little above the brutes around him.
Not foreign to this despondency was the bad news that came from America.
He had many fits ofdespondency and wondered at times whether he was not too old to accustom himself to strange people and to strange manners.
For the greatest cause of our despondency under the cross is certainly the doubt which we entertain as to whether it really comes from God.
But the latter always opposes energetically the despondency of Judah in the face of Asshur, and declares that his proud power would be broken at Jerusalem (as had been already prophesied by Hosea in i.
There is a general air of despondency over everything.
Presently Molly enters, her eyelids pink, the corners of her mouth forlornly curved, a general despondency in her whole demeanor.
To such hidden mourners the formation of Anti-Slavery Societies was as life from the dead, the first beams of hope which gleamed through the dark clouds of despondency and grief.
They could make no impression on the despondency that had settled on him; they could not shake the conviction that he was a doomed man.
These moods of black despondency he varied by turbulent spirits, when he would be the gayest of the gay, and would challenge his fellow-guests to drinking bouts, in which he always came off the victor.
Goldthred, who was obliged to be in London the same night, sank into the lowest depths of despondency while bidding adieu to Mrs. Lascelles and her party, as they embarked under a purple sunset for their homeward voyage.
Even in the midst of ruin it seemed no small consolation to have such a friend as this; and there was a hearty brightness about Mrs. Lascelles, not to be damped by the despondency of the most hopeless companion.
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