He had not abandoned hope, and was still working on the case; but he was inclined to think that, if the mystery was ever solved, it would be only by some lucky accident or through the confession of the guilty man.

The enemy evidently had not abandoned hope of capturing Amiens, and, he again began hammering at the gateway to that city.

Some actually had to abandon hope of offices through poverty, and in this I am not speaking of those then supporting Sextus, who had been disenfranchised as if by some principle of right.

She respected him, and dreaded his power over her father; but, unwilling to abandon hopes to which she yet clung as to her spring of existence, with a violent effort she determined to throw herself on the generosity of her lover.

The king of France and the younger Henry abandoned hope, "for they saw that God was with the king;" and there was a general pause in the war.

He nursed her patiently with the vain hope that she could recover; but he finally abandoned hope and put her in the care of a conscientious attendant.

He, then, who abandons hope of making good his claims to the first class, will be glad to seize the opportunity of taking a place in the second.

In sorrow Abu Lubaba went into the camp of the Koreitza, and when they questioned him he told them openly that they must abandon hope.

But if the subject of debate be something in the air, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be supple, be smiling, be angry, all shall avail him nothing; what the woman said first, that (unless she has forgotten it) she will repeat at the end.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter.

Cast down and dejected, he has never yet entirely abandoned hope of finding traces of her.

The mention of the name of the Rousbys, here on the Patuxent River, was a sudden and vivid remembrancer to me of the old story of Talbot, and gave new encouragement to an almost abandoned hope of solving this mystery.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

"You must not humour her in that delusion," David said sternly to Tommy; "when we cease to fight it we have abandoned hope.

" So the weapon he always had his hand on was taken from Tommy, for he would not abandon hope.

The patriots for the moment abandoned hope, and bowed before their victorious foes.

Until the official announcement of the surrender of all forces west of the Mississippi, they did not abandon hope.

Two years went by, and they abandoned hope.

I made one last clutch at the smooth, wet planks; and then, as we drifted astern past the ship, I abandoned hope.

Robert knew that he might abandon hope if he incurred the wrath of men whose overthrow was only a question of time.

Was it possible that Casey had abandoned hope of Nathaniel's return and was already lying off St. James with shotted gun?