He gave me that filly, you know, as a hopeless weed, and he's been pretty sick ever since, that he was such a flat as not to see how good she was.
Your counsel has made an attempt to palliate this, on the ground that the woman is in what he describes, I think, as "a hopeless position.
You are the sole being that can do us good--we hopeless ones.
That was the draught-horse's instinctive cry of joy at being released from a hopeless effort.
Yet he was, like Isobel, in great fear--in almost hopeless fear.
He broke off hurriedly, and Maria, with a hopeless gesture, turned back into the path.
I meant to make him hate his grandfather as he does--I meant to make him the hopeless drunkard that he is.
A little hysterical laugh broke from her, and she made a hopeless gesture of reproof.
And in the meantime we'll go in to supper," put in the girl with a kind of hopeless patience, though Carraway could see that she smarted as from a blow.
From a proud position as the straightest shot and the gayest liver of his day, he had been reduced at a single blow to the couch of a hopeless cripple.
Not find fault, dear," she answered, and thehopeless courage in her face smote him to the heart.
Uncle Tucker was a hopeless cripple, there wasn't a servant strong enough to spade the garden, and there were only Lila and you and I.
The hopeless gallantry of the girl moved him to a vague feeling of pity, and he spoke presently with a chivalrous desire of making her failure easy.
But since the project was already hopeless it didn't make much difference.
To seek perfect virtue or contentment "is ashopeless as to try to recover a lost limb.
When truly humble and consciously ignorant, he hath the aspect of a child of God; when conceited, dogmatic, aggressive, all the forgotten orthodox teachings of the fate of the hopeless come back to you with the force of apostolic thunder.
For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret; I could not even mention her name; but her image was continually before me, and I dreamt of her incessantly.
And there the little finger paused, and with a hopeless gesture Celie intimated that was all she knew.
Again and again he made Celie understand that he wanted to know why the Eskimos wanted HER, and each time she answered him with a hopeless little gesture, signifying that she did not know.
Strong was th' assault; he arm'd his hopeless breast, And summon'd all his forces to the test.
Still the Federalists continued to oppose the war, though in a hopeless minority as to the whole country, and, like all parties out of power, sharply and unceasingly criticised the Administration.
The chase was kept up during the night, but in the morning was found to be so hopelessthat it was abandoned.
In particular had poor Nikolai Petrovitch been in a bad way, for his troubles in connection with the estate--troubles of an exclusively futile and hopeless order--were growing greater from day to day.
It was more a slur than a question and he answered it in a hopeless mumble.
His throat swelled with a bitterness which he was now too hopeless or too spiritless to loose, and Mr. Gumama saw that it was doubtful if his question had penetrated to a mind that was one concentrated egoism.
My last word to you, Morrison, is, don't make your casehopeless by shooting any more.
The police found it hopeless to get a scrap of information.
An understanding of the method is necessary if one is to find the meaning of the currents and cross-currents which make so hopeless a hodge-podge of the present times.
In every "rising" during the last two hundred years of Ireland's struggles, some of his ancestors had carried a pike or trailed a musket, and the rebel blood in him cried sympathy with the Nihilist in his devotion to a hopeless cause.
To hunt up a stray beast on the wide open prairie seems to the uninitiated a hopeless business, but it is a simple matter, after all.
She was too dull, too apathetic, too hopelessand too suspicious even of her own kind to allow the Ketzels an entrance to her heart.
This," I remarked, "is neither a singular nor a hopeless case.
To follow him through the course of impiety which he ran for the space of two years, during which time he involved himself in debt and in hopeless misery, would afford the reader no gratification.
All this was the more hopeless and exasperating to Grant since in the young girl's speech and manner there was not the slightest trace of coquetry or playfulness.
No," said Grant quietly, with a preoccupied ignoring of the insult that was more hopeless for Harcourt.
He continued his explanation with the hopeless frankness and persistency of youth and inexperience.
Yet in his hopeless vacillation it seemed a relief that now neither was practicable, and that he need do nothing.
Even in the hopeless preoccupation of his passion he suddenly looked at her with something of his old critical scrutiny.
She had always believed her cousin's unhappy temperament to have been the result of a moral and physical idiosyncrasy,--she found it here to be the effect of a lifelong and hopeless passion for herself!
I'm getting rather bored with this wild seaside watering place and its glitter of ocean and hopeless background of mountain.
How often lies a poor fellow-creature in the bondage of hopeless poverty, or in the embarrassment of inextricable difficulties!
It is quite impossible to understand how the little being contrives to form the upright ridges on the surface of its cocoon; and as the larva is so minute it is almost hopeless to expect to discover it.
After collecting about a dozen of these helpless beings, fixing them so that they are hopeless captives inside her dark prison, she bids farewell to the egg, for the future well-being of which she has thus assiduously provided.
Without legs, without any other apparatus by which it might drag itself forward, one would say it is in a hopeless case; it must lie there and perish, for there appears no way of extricating it from its den.
But in the case of most who read this book, this extremely delicate task will prove after many trials probably a hopeless failure.
So absolutely helpless and hopeless had justice now become that the Nuremberg Court actually accepted a dream as evidence.
She was so hopeless of marrying him whom she loved, so determined not to accept the man her father would have forced upon her, that she had decided to put an end to the existence which had become a burden to her.
Nothing could be more hopeless than this mission now seemed.
What looks of horror, of hopeless despair are there!
One sable sleeve was wrenched disastrously from its arm-hole, and along the edge of the vivid little purple skirt the ill-favored white ruffles seemed to have raveled out into hopeless yards and yards and yards of Hamburg embroidery.
As though the father himself had snubbed her for some unimaginable familiarity the White Linen Nurse winced back in hopeless confusion.
The hopelesstragedy of their race is in their long, yearning gaze; but we read it not.
When in his most gloomy and hopeless moods, this daughter could instantly soothe and cheer him by playing upon the piano and singing to him songs very different from those sung at his drunken all-night orgies.
Late the next afternoon, after an unusually weary round of visits, made in the extreme heat and in a sort of hopeless faithfulness, Dr.
The pitiful andhopeless part of it is that if she had been in sympathy with them, Jack would have gone on in his frivolous career at an accelerated pace.
And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go?
Her woman's wit was the first to break the hopeless situation.
The problem of poverty and helplessness and incapacity seemed to her more hopeless than when she began.
