Which preposition to use with despond
The pilgrims then, especially Christian, began to despond in their minds, and looked this way and that, but no way could be found by them by which they might escape the river.
Pris heard the lamentations, and giving up fresh ribbons for herself, pulled her sister out of a slough of despond with two yards of "heavenly tulle.
We should also, in forming our opinion, take into consideration the person's previous conductwhether he has been low and desponding for some time before, or has ever talked about committing suicide. 2641.
It had raised Amy out of the slough of despond into which she had unwittingly strayed, or been thrust.
Their mood will be a heaven of exaltation and exhilaration, and then descend into a slough of despond from which they feel themselves inextricable.
It was then that Jeremiah, sad and desponding over the fate of Jerusalem, which he knew was doomed, committed his precious utterances to writing by the assistance of his friend and companion Baruch.
I should ever be able to write a novel, just as I desponded about everything else in my future life.
To all to whom reading is something more than a refined idleness these questions recur, bringing with them the sense of bewilderment; and a still, small voice within us is for ever crying out for some guide across the Slough of Despond of an illimitable and ever-swelling literature.