Dan, in sheer desperation, took in the trip to Philadelphia.

She continues daily to make great exertions in pursuing them, but does not often admit my help; and, being afraid that I may fall into mere desperation, I have bethought me how to amuse some hours daily by setting down the manner of our present troubles and the beginnings that led to them.

She was at her desk, and when she looked up, her great eyes opened in wonderment as they took in Bob, his grim, set face, the defiant, sullen desperation of the big brown eyes, the dishevelled hair and clothes.

The people, finally stung to a blind desperation and exhorted by their priests, rose in the summer of 1906, and by purely passive measuressuch as taking sanctuary, or bast, in large numbers in sacred places and in the grounds of the British Legation at Teheransucceeded in obtaining from Muzaffarn'd Din Shah, the father of Muhammad Ali, a constitution which he granted some six months before his death.

On his again attempting to reach the pile, he was charged with profanation; and, on Balty Mahu's making his appearance and encouraging the charge, in frantic desperation he seizes a scymetar from one of the guards, and plunges it in his breast.

Had its subjects worn the galling chains of American slavery, they would have struggled with bloody desperation for the deliverance which they saw accorded to others.

Prather managed to say, and reached out for his rifle in clumsy desperation, as if he were feeling for it in the dark.

He toiled all day in feverish desperation; and now that there was no more to be done, sat down to ponder over his altered prospects.

" I invoked, in utter desperation, the awe with which, as his hints and my experience implied, Esmo was regarded by his neighbours; and slender as seemed this support, it did not fail me.

Since the time of Christ there have been two similar famines recorded,one in the eleventh century, lasting, like Joseph's, seven years; and the other in the twelfth century, of which the most distressing details are given, even to the extreme desperation of cannibalism.

Charles was now plunged into a state of profound melancholy; but he soon burst from this gloomy mood into one of renewed fierceness and fatal desperation.

The electric rays fell upon them as they came up the wet gangway together, and there once again I saw the sweet face of the silent woman whom I had grown to love with such fervent desperation.

I grew to take a fiendish delight in watching the conflict, and the fierce desperation which marked its violence.

She neglected useful and ornamental pastimes, became morose and impatient, and gave way to fits of frenzied desperation.

" For the moment Claire felt the harried desperation of a cornered animal.

The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand.

This illness, bringing Fechner face to face with inner desperation, made a great crisis in his life.

" He would have left her with the words, but on the instant desperation seized Anne.

It was the circumstance of being alone in a solitary office, up stairs, of a building entirely unhallowed by humanizing domestic associationsan uncarpeted office, doubtless, of a dusty, haggard sort of appearance;this it must have been, which greatly helped to enhance the irritable desperation of the hapless Colt.

My fainting, I presume, saved my life, for the felon was in that state of maniacal desperation which nothing but a perfect unresistingness could have evaded.

The South American, accustomed to the disputes of his two companions, looked at his black fingernails with the melancholy desperation of a prophet contemplating his country in ruins.

Daily I take my stand in the same vile street, and nightly am I driven to the minor theatresto oyster-shopsto desperation!

In his poetic enthusiasm he thought of the young men of those islands who could cover themselves with glory in the eyes of their women, and in his amorous desperation he envied them because they could find a brilliant suicide.

The ship-wrecked men rowed with nervous desperation; then they lay down inert, recognizing the uselessness of their efforts, lost in the great immensity.

Upon her refusal to meet his advances favorably, a passionate desperation took possession of Junot, and he determined to set fire to his palace, and perish with his love in the flames.