At length he raised his head, threw forward his long ears, gazed for a second intently at his enemies, and then appreciating his danger, snorted like a warhorse and plunged in a seeming desperation of terror towards the shore.

People in Abo had told me that when he did go out into the streets of Helsingfors it was at night, and he usually disguised himself in the uniform of a private soldier of the guard, thus escaping recognition by those who, driven to desperation by injustice, sought his life.

" There were mutiny and desperation in the air.

Had its subjects worn the galling chains of American slavery, they would have struggled with bloody desperation for the deliverance which they saw accorded to others.

This war of the Edomites took place simultaneously with that of the Ammonites, who, deprived of their allies, retreated with desperation to their strong capital,Rabbah Ammon, twenty-eight hundred feet above the sea, and twenty miles east of the Jordan,where they made a memorable but unsuccessful resistance.

Next day on the river Junior Doane's desperation at the outset brought upon his head the criticism of the coach.

"Before tasting the water both man and wife had to drink first, and as this scene was repeated on innumerable occasions, it was delightful to observe the comic desperation with which the people took their involuntary 'water cure.

Desperation on account of the blowing up of the bridge caused the German plane scouts to meet the challenges offered by the exultant Yankees, and news of many an encounter kept coming in about the time the two boys thought of leaving the field and going for their dinner.

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

The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but

" There was indeed a lurking desperation under Percival Nowell's airy manner, of which the people amongst whom he lived had no suspicion.

In the social conditions of the England of that day the administration of justice was, in more ways than one, a very critical matter, and the efforts of over-zealous judges and sheriffs might easily end in driving the people to desperation before the severity of the law, or in crushing out under a heedless taxation a prosperity which was still new and still rare.

[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: The very place puts toyes of desperation Without more motiue, into euery braine That lookes so many fadoms to the sea And heares it rore beneath.]