Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy. From Wordnik.com. [Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.] Reference
But if you despond, there can be no hopes of cure. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The calamity was great, but he did not, he said, despond. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
Plants like animals become exalted, grow tired or despond. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Then he clapped me on the shoulder, and bade me not despond. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
The most perilous hour of one's life is when he is tempted to despond. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Anyone sliding into a slough of despond should keep things in perspective. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eugene Robinson - Bush Years Offer Perspective on Current Troubles] Reference
Madeline felt that she must get him somehow back into his slough of despond. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Be comforted; be not dejected; do not despond, my dearest and best-beloved friend. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"Don't despond," I answered as cheerfully as I could, "and you will die neither way.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
The request came usually at a time when Yale's football was in the slough of despond. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
"It sounds pretty bad," admitted Heavy, coming out of her momentary slough of despond. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Raising himself out of the slough of despond, he resolutely re-fed his soul with hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
At first Mad Men seemed as if it was going to dig deeper into the coal pit of despond. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men Confronts Heaven and Hull: The Season 3 Finale: James Wolcott] Reference
Howbeit we ought not hence to despond, or to be cast down from our duty or our comfort. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace] Reference
If he could look upon his homestead with our eyes, I feel sure he would cease to despond. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Audubon, by contrast, careened from optimism to the slough of despond on no known schedule. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The world may be his footstool, and may be his slough of despond, but is never his final end. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
It may be, after all, he will do it this day; and if not, he may do it another: do not despond. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
"You will meet with difficulties, but do not despond; to every cloud, there is a silver lining.". From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Now he began to despond, and to speculate in his mind as to whether Ethel was in any danger or not. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
Missionary Association, still burdened with its debt, and lift it out of the slough of financial despond. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896] Reference
Essington, and his companions had begun to despond, and even to question his abilities as a guide and leader. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Through them he lifted himself out of the slough of despond, and he sought to extend a helping hand to others. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
But what course did he now take? did he despond? did he give over? did he rest on his own counsel and strength?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
The interior suffered equally with the coast, and men at length began to despond under so alarming a visitation. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
But don't despond: Your current trusty emailing device has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about. From Wordnik.com. [Ways to Unlock] Reference
But we have no reason to despond, nor to imagine that, because such has occurred in some districts, it will continue. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
"I hope you will now proceed to rescue me from the slough of despond by telling me that you love me and will marry me?". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
To despond, I thought, would be mistrusting the Bounty of our Creator, and might be the ready way to plunge me into the. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
Unable to bear the sneers of ignorance or the attacks of envy, he began to despond, and flew to dissipation as a relief. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
But at Ballybay, still deep down in the slough of its eternal despond, a few lorn and desolate-looking men stood on the platform. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
His expectations in this respect, as well as his earnest efforts, received so little encouragement that he began, finally, to despond. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Kernstown; plunging the public mind into a slough of despond, in which it was to be sunk deeper and deeper with each successive despatch. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
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