Be without hope

Usage examples of despair.

His death, which has been imputed to his own despair, left the reins of government in the hands of Withimer, who, with the doubtful aid of some Scythian mercenaries, maintained the unequal contest against the arms of the Huns and the Alani, till he was defeated and slain in a decisive battle.

Alps and the Apennine, might view with careless despair the consequences of a defeat under the walls of Rome.

The next few days Tarzan devoted to the weaving of a barkcloth sail with which to equip the canoe, for he despaired of being able to teach the apes to wield the paddles, though he did manage to get several of them to embark in the frail craft which he and Mugambi paddled about inside the reef where the water was quite smooth.

Earnest perusal of the fashion journals had cast Arabella into a mood of despair, but Mama took a more cheerful view of the matter.

This plainly denotes their present suffering in the Babylonish captivity, and their despair of being delivered from it.

Ross Barnett was hunkered down in a small study in the mansion, a portrait of despair.

The dismayed barbarians, on whatsoever side they cast their eyes, beheld, with despair, a wasted country, a deep and rapid stream, a victorious and implacable enemy.

The night you cried out at Bethabara, all of us knew it was despair which drove you to it, and the Master reacted accordingly.

How vulnerable and susceptible she would have been to her one true friend Blackie in her heartbreak, loneliness, and despair.

What was worse, in a way, was the fact that blowing it off no longer created in her the same sense of guilt and despair she had felt back in October when she first overslept a class after playing shepherd for a blitzed Beverly half the night.

Why should there be peace as long as any manhood is left in Russia to lift up its hand out of its despair against its Bolshevist oppressors?

When at last I almost despaired of health any more, I saw in a paper one of your advertisements, and I sent for and got two bottles of Dr.

Ketira that day, and the despair upon her face as she dodged about between Virginia Cottage and the brickfields, was like a gloomy picture.

Sobbing in despair, Rachel ran straight to the section of the barn that housed the broodmares, not stopping until she reached the third one from the end.

In the squadroom men were sitting on their bunks with their helmets on holding their empty rifles in black despair.