Yet hope was not quite stilled.

Listening to its ravings wild, Dropping on it many a tear, Sat the mother, broken-hearted; Every hope was in its shroud.

He was obliged to confess to himself that the utter annihilation of his hope was more bitter than he had supposed it would be.

And because that hope was put so fresh into me, I went forward through, maybe, thirty hours, across the olden sea-bed; but in all that time I had no sight of the lights of the Lesser Redoubt.

Besides, Hannibal had never expected to surprise Rome by a -coup de main-, such as Scipio soon afterwards executed against New Carthage, and still less had he meditated a siege in earnest; his only hope was that in the first alarm part of the besieging army of Capua would march to Rome and thus give him an opportunity of breaking up the blockade.

The hope was to linger about it until sunset, for its colors, lights, and shadows.

As this hope was futile, there was no reason, at subsequent performances, to keep up the pretence of preserving a secret which was probably known, as a matter of fact, to most of the audience, and which was worthless when revealed.

His mother's fond hope was that he should be named a Cardinal, not merely a Papal princeling, nor of course a religious reprobateas, alas, most of the Cardinals werebut a devout wearer of the scarlet hat, and that one day he might even assume the triple tiara!

Another ground of hope was then tried by the accused, viz.

He had had a faint hope that the president might rally his supporters and begin the fight again, but the hope was gone.

My only hope was that the killing would take long enough to leave time for our unobtrusive exit.

The new Emperor, Alexander II., had never been hoped for as one who could light the nation from his brain: the only hope was that he might warm the nation, somewhat, from his heart.

She was half-hoping that she would discover Carter or some of his men shadowing their quarry, but her hope was vain.

The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was exhausted, and his last hope was gone.

He could only pray that for the moment no attack was to be launched; but then, just when it seemed that the tide of hope was at its lowest ebb, the fates flung him another chancea chance that for the moment looked like no chance; looked, indeed, like a certainty of sudden death.

That hope was now disappointed; and, the whole time the two vessels were retiring before the Anne and the Martha, preparations were making on board one of the brigs to reclaim this ill-gotten treasure, and on board the other to retain it.

One comfort he had when hope was at low ebbthe vision of a pale face at a trap-door, its eyes wide in concernHermia's face when Olga's fowling piece was discharged; two comfortsthe memory of the roses of Pre GuŽgou!

Now she felt that even in her early mystery there was delight, and that hope was veiled beneath its ominous shadow.

I endeavoured to show him that he was a helpless, undone sinner; and that all his hope was in the merits of Christ: staid with him nearly two hours, during which he seemed earnestly seeking mercy.

We shall then know with a smile that what we now call merely hope was really memory.

But it would seem that the hope was vain, the promise illusive.

Just when Mr. Hope was expected to return came a letter to Mary to say that he should be detained a day or two longer, as he had a sore throat and fever, but nothing alarming.

" Hope was delighted.

None of the poor fellows were in a condition to give a rational answer, though Walter implored them to say where Hope was and his daughter.

No such hope was in his heart when, forty years before, he hid in the woods from a bloodthirsty enemy.