Their laughter crushed him, and he withdrew into his old-man's world, and despondently adapted himself to it.
But Pelle took his bearings and ran despondently to the town-hall.
M131) "It looks a long way off," observed the moralist, gazing despondently upwards.
Our Alpine tour for the season was nearly at an end, and we gazed despondently around.
It surprises me--I hear men sit and talk despondentlyof this extraordinary disease of the vine, and not one of them seems to think it incumbent on him to act, and do his best to stop it.
Berry was constrained despondently to acknowledge that was logic.
That morning I had been despondently thinking that I was making no end of enemies in my new home.
I was about to go despondently back to the cart, when, giving a final glance round, I saw him stealing away beyond some columns.
He sat down, as if crushed by the weight of defeat, and looked steadily and despondently at the floor, while the congregation stood and sang the doxology.
After staring despondentlyfor a time at the blank page, which now promised to remain as blank as the future then seemed, the fact suddenly occurred to him that even genius often spurred its flagging or dormant powers by stimulants.
He returned despondently in the evening to his refuge at Mr. Growther's cottage, and his quaint good Samaritan showed his sympathy by maintaining a perpetual growl at himself and the "disjinted world" in general.
George Weston attended her constantly; but he found it very difficult to administer to such a sickness as hers, and he could only shake his head despondently when he felt her feeble pulse, or listened to the slow beating of her heart.
You can seldom catch sight of her, resting thus, without seeing her in a despondentlydefiant manner doing something to her hair or her bonnet, and glancing at you between her fingers.
At the same time Elkanah Watson was despondently scanning the subscription books of his Mohawk River enterprise at Albany where "no mortal" had risked more than two shares.
I threw myself despondently in my chair, and had quite given up going, when Captain Brace's servant came round to say that his master was waiting breakfast.
I looked at him with my face all in wrinkles, and sank down despondently in the seat to which he pointed.
I sat looking despondently at the wreck, for the accident had happened just as I felt sure of our overtaking the schooner, which was rapidly gliding away from us again, when Esau caught hold of my arm.
Sad-coloured curtains, whose proportions were spare and lean, hid themselves despondently behind the windows.
All that night they rode despondently on, crossing the Chattanooga River on a bridge which they burned behind them, and by sunrise reaching Cedar Bluff, twenty-eight miles from Gadsden.
Her face was pale and troubled, and she leaned despondently against the high back of an arm-chair near that from which the queen had just risen.
We showed her the United States colors as we approached, and a very bright "old flag" soon afterward ascended to her peak, drooping despondently for want of wind to blow it out.
He writes despondently as to the action of the European powers.
And it wasn't till then that some bystander tore his attention away long enough to stick a ladder up the elm-tree and let Colonel Gideon Ward scrape his way despondently down.
He stared despondently through the window at the seamed roof and weather-worn walls that looked particularly forlorn and dilapidated on that gray March day.
Could it be through those very streets that he hurried so eagerly in search of what might bring him a bare subsistence; returned so despondently from each successive failure?
But, even as heretofore, he could not find it, and despondently he once more turned his horse to ride back to the waggons.
Clarice sank despondently into the most comfortable chair in the room.
The widow leaned despondently against the fence and watched him as he ploughed his way through the tall grass and weeds of the intervening marsh towards Ann Boyd's house.
Reaching the point to which she had directed her steps, and taking a hasty survey of the road leading gradually up the mountain, she leaned despondently on her rail-fence.
The morning of that day found Outfield West very busy packing a heap of unnecessary golf clubs and wearing apparel into his trunk and bags, and found Joel seated rather despondently on the lounge looking on.
Blair continued to burn the midnight oil and consume page after page of Greek and mathematics and German, which, as he confided despondently to Digbee, he promptly forgot the next moment.
She has a melancholy and most interesting look, and talks very despondently of the state of dramatic art nowadays.
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