Desperation drive.

Many such kinds there are of desperation, when men are past hope of obtaining any suit, or in despair of better fortune; Desperatio facit monachum, as the saying is, and desperation causeth death itself; how many thousands in such distress have made away themselves, and many others?

how much guile did that seeming desperation hide, which, as the result has now shown, though it may have come from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face was only a lure and a delusion!

But in that instant of desperation instinct had guided her.

By keeping their stomachs just at desperation-point?

But lo! fresh streaming from the Hibernian[*] height Her own red torrent wild-eyed faction pours; While, 'mid her falling ranks, ignobly great, Loud vengeance raves, and desperation scours.