Yet she was not wholly despondent as her eyes followed the disappearing figure of Noble Dill.
However, she seemed far from despondent about this; in fact, she was naturally pleased with her position as a young girl saved from the power of ruffians by a rescuer who was her Very Ideal.
I was more and more dazed and puzzled the nearer I approached the inevitable interview and the nearer I approached it the more futile and hopeless it seemed and the more despondent I grew.
He is said to be really very despondent about his fall, and has the more reason for despondency as he is sole author of it.
I cannot say how despondent I feel and what a weight is upon my mind.
Gibangkulíya ang babáying wà makasulay ug trátu, The woman became despondent because she had never had a lover.
Nag-unay siya kay disispirádu, He killed himself because he was despondent in love.
He assures the most despondent that for them also a useful life is possible.
Faith means that all distrust, all resentment at what has happened in our life, all proud and all despondent thoughts, are laid aside.
Four days later the Gannet dropped anchor in the harbour, and with despondent mien the remaining officers went ashore to report the loss of the captain and his men.
She was quite nervous and despondent during gestation.
I am now very gloomy, despondent and I constantly dread a return of mental trouble.
If they yield and practice the secret vice, they chide and condemn themselves, become despondent and decide there is no hope for them.
It is not that self-sacrifice means a frame of mind too despondent to enjoy, so fearful of every kind of pleasure that it has not the heart to take part in it.
Inger grew despondent at last, the wilds oppressed her, she turned religious.
She is a delicate creature for all that, and will drop away suddenly at the first serious attack, as her poor mother did," croaked Aunt Myra, with a despondent wag of the big bonnet.
Sometimes he was peevish and hard to please, sometimes he growled because his reader could not manage the dry books he wished to hear, and sometimes he was so despondent that her heart ached to see him.
The first scene discovered Mac in a despondent attitude and shabby dress, evidently much troubled in mind.
Begrimed with smoke, hoarse with shouting, he breathed the lust of battle into those half-despondent ranks; and this time he succeeded.
A boy sat on a door-step in a despondent attitude, with his eyes fixed on a pair of very shabby shoes, and his elbows resting on his knees, as if to hide the big patches there.
No answer to my advertisement, mamma, and I must sit with idle hands for another day," said Clara with a despondent sigh, as the postman passed the door.
He did not want his enemies, least of all Dayton, to find him crouching in a despondent attitude.
Let us hope this Second Missive may counteract the too despondent First, which we read above, should that have produced discouragement in Schmettau!
The small house at Pau, which in some of his more despondentmoments had assumed an unqualified appearance of domestic discomfort, was now ornamented and accoutred till it seemed to be a little paradise.
Grif mused; and in his then despondent mood he groaned at the thought that all remembrance of him was wiped out of Little Peter's mind.
The last letter she had received from Richard was written in a very despondent mood, and that made her more anxious to hear from him.
Everlasting protest, impetuous energy of will, melancholy and despondent reaction;--this is the revolutionary course.
When the despondent Conrad returned to Germany he brought back one lasting memorial of his ill-fated Crusade.
But they were all dry and able to start the moment it began to be light, and that day was a repetition of the preceding, and followed by another despondent night, this time, though, one which gave refreshment to all.
So he sat on this drear Thanksgiving-Day despondent beside his hearth.
The names of such men and women and their stories must be made familiar to people who are themselves delicate in health and who fear for their future and, above all, are despondent about the possibility of ever doing anything worth while.
The novelist wrote his Predilecta of his ideas of marriage, and how he longed to marry, but he became despondent about this as well as about his debts; he felt that he was growing old, and would not live long.
Balzac asserts that the story of Louis Lambert is true to life; hence, despondent over his own situation, he makes Louis Lambert become insane, and causes Dr.
