In the first place, I, with this truth-telling 'tongue, destroyed all hope, before he had committed himself by a declaration; and then Grace Van Cortlandt possesses the great attraction of nature, in a degree quite equal to that of her cousin.

Yet that would only mean the death of all hope, and I turned my eyes away from him, and stared with the others at the opening door.

" [1260] Reynolds records:'During his last illness, when all hope was at an end, he appeared to be quieter and more resigned.

He may not be utterly bad and past all hope of redemption on that account.

But the birth of a son, which, in giving James a male heir, destroyed all hope of redress for the kingdom, decided the wavering, and rendered the determined desperate.

As I passed under the crossbeam of the suspension bridge, I looked to find the motto, "All hope relinquish, ye who enter here."

I saw then that he had given up all hope of the wind shifting, and was trying to run her dead for the beach.

Very good of you, Sir, to respect age: we all hope to live to be old.

The rajahs and other chiefs who were allied with the zamorin, lost all hope of ever being able to get the victory over the Portuguese, and were sorry for having joined in the war so greatly to their own dishonour.

I have given up all hope of ever understanding.

They don't worry so much through the day, but at nightat night, when one with infinite care has examined the inside of the mosquito-curtains to make sure none are lurking, and then, satisfied, has dived into bed and tucked the curtain carefully round, and is just going off to sleepbuzz-z-z sounds the hateful thing, and all hope of a quiet night is gone.

Nay, with all hope not yet extinguished, he had even at the end of the period resolved upon a visit to Scotland, when, strangely enough, and sadly too, he was told by Mr. Dreghorn, that having had occasion to hear from Mr. Peter Ramsay on the subject of some more horse-dealings, that person had reported to him that Mary Brown, the lover of his old stable-boy, was dead.

What a heaving Tartarus was Greece, when all hope of a true nationality was given up!

How him alone all hope abandons never, To empty trash who clings, with zeal untired, With greed for treasure gropes, and, joy-inspir'd, Exults if earth-worms second his endeavor.

He sleeps in peace, and we all hope to meet him in heaven.

I lose all hope of winning you when I learn these things of you.

Mentally registering a vow to give my husband a dose of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup on the coming night, I would relinquish all hope of another nap, get up and dress myself, and join my roaring lion on the front gallery, where we would both sit meekly waiting for the allied forces of kitchen and dining-room to decide upon the question of revictualing us.

He had regained the friendship of Flamin, but it seemed to him that he had now lost all hope of winning Clotilda.

Am I not meant to understand from this that I must give up all hope of ever recovering my liberty?

To that end, he rode over to Puddingdale and persuaded Mr. Quiverful to give up all hope of the wardenship.

The moral condition of this people, their spiritual apathy, their attachment to the superstitious rites of their ancestors, together with the natural depravity of the human heart, and at the same time their language being one of the most difficult, perhaps the most difficult of acquisition of any spoken language, all combine to forbid, it would seem, all hope of ever Christianizing this empire.

Under the word the Lord made such a discovery of myself to myself, as completely stripped me of self-confidence, and all hope,except in the Saviour's merits, upon which I had power to lay hold.

If this fails, all hope is gone; no future, no life is left, nothing but the grave awaits him.

I have never known why the law stood in my mother's way, or why it was at last that Rucker gave up all hope and vented his spite on my mother and on me.

CHAPTER V BACCHUS AND BACCHANTES Lady Constance had exhausted every means of procuring the desired information concerning the strange beauty in her kinsman's castle; and she became fretted and annoyed and was about to give up all hope, when she came suddenly upon the object of her search in the corridor; and the beauteous maid, grey-gowned and sandal-shoon, flitted by without deigning so much as a look.