She was extremely afraid, and considered herself an abject coward, but she was determined to the point of desperation.

And surely the unity of love of the Millions did make a natural Force about me; for, in verity, the Force that did come from the House to seem to be somewhat eased from the Maid; yet there to be no surety in this; for all did be desperation and turmoil in my heart, and I to have but one thought in my brain, that I bring Mine Own swift across the Land unto the Mighty Pyramid, and so unto the Doctors.

Adv. violently &c adj.; amain^; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis [Lat.], at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance^, a toute outrance [Fr.]; headlong, head foremost.

" "Gaol!" cries he, in a passion of desperation.

But Abdallah in the boldness of desperation replied, "I will not let thee go until thou hast shown favour to my kinsmen.

And the desperation in his voice betrayed him.

Deeds of valor performed by Indians are as often done from desperation as from any natural bravery.

And then, the sons of each wife take a part in the battle; they first fight for their mothers, and then for themselvesso that the chief must have been reduced to desperation long ago if it were not for his pipe and his philosophy.

But that lover did not seem to be in such despair as she washe did not quit the village, or drown himself, or commit any act of desperation.

Seeing her desperation, I begged her to be pacified; that she would hear me speak but one word; declaring that I intended no dishonour to her: and having seized the scissors, I threw them into the chimney; and she still insisting vehemently upon my distance, I permitted her to take the chair.

Examples are common, how it causeth melancholy, desperation, and sometimes death itself; for (Eccles. xxxviii. 15,) "Of heaviness comes death; worldly sorrow causeth death."

In desperation he struck at the tiger with his sickle, and according to his own account, he succeeded in putting out one of its eyes.

Yet I wonder much Of the strange desperation of these men, That dare attempt such acts here in our State; He could not escape that did it.

She named no names, but, with a sort of desperation, raised her head and looked Miss Wimple in the face; in the quick, sensitive glances they interchanged at that moment the omission was supplied.

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

At last in sheer desperation he arose to pursue, whereupon she vanished lightly into the underbrush.

"I will not be baited with what and why," said poor Johnson, one day in desperation.

Joy had given place to fear and desperation.

When some act of Russian tyranny more gross and brutal than usual goads us to desperation, we take up arms to kill and to die.

In desperation, I went out begging, and such was the talent I had acquired in this art that I came back with four pounds of bread, a piece of cow-heel, and some tripe.

It was an act of desperation on my part to draw the tricker, and I had hardly well shut my blinkers when I got such a thump on the shoulder as knocked me backwards, head over heels, on the grass.

"In 1815, near Frederick, in Maryland, a most barbarous planter was killed in a fit of desperation, by four of his slaves in self-defence.

It would be tedious to relate, although it was not tedious to hear her relate it, the desperations and hopes of her life then.

She could not have had any hopes then at all; it must have been all desperations.

"Tableaux-vivants, for a dollar!" said Archie Westcott in bored desperation.