"Despondingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... go—there's no help for it," said Ellen despondingly. "Why didn't you say so before. When you said yes I thought ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... arms to the neighboring Cevennes.[917] When they descended into the plain, a larger number, who had submitted on the approach of the soldiery, would unite with them and form a considerable army. "Heresy, alas, gains ground daily," despondingly writes Villars; "the children learn religion only in the catechism brought from Geneva; all know it by heart." The cause of the evil he seemed to find in the circumstance—undoubtedly favorable to the Huguenots—that, of twenty-two bishops whose dioceses lay in Languedoc, ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... of course," very despondingly, "no one can do anything for me. I must go to a lodging, ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... may be applied to all. The horse neighs for her, breaking everything and putting her in danger. The awful king of the prairie, the black bull, bellows with grief, should she pass him by at a distance. And, behold, yon bird despondingly turns away from his hen, and with whirring wings hastes to convince the ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
... said she, despondingly, "as if Providence looked unfavourably on our design; for every time you have attempted it, we have been in some way thwarted;" and the tears chased one another down her face, which had grown pale in ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb
... story speaks truly; Our grief shall be endless, Ah, me!" says the Elder. 90 (His faith in improvements Has vanished again.) And Klimka, who always Is swayed in an instant By joy or by sorrow, Despondingly echoes, "A terrible sin!" ...
— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov
... I believe, the only way," said the tutor, despondingly; "I was relieved once that way before ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... remembered, after the adverse decision, to have despondingly asked, 'Where is the use of fighting for the shell when ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby
... but I shot and the deer fell lengthwise on Holden, I rolled him off and Holden got up, all covered with blood from head to foot, with his clothes torn into shreds. He looked at himself and said despondingly, 'What a spectacle I am!' I peeled some bark, tied his rags round him, patched him up the best possible and we started for home through the woods, got as near his home as we could and not be seen, then I left him, went to his house and got him ...
— The Bark Covered House • William Nowlin |
