Which preposition to use with hopeless
That entertaining no doubt of this intelligence hopeless of ever seeing me again, and indifferent to every thing besides, she had been led an unresisting victim to the altar.
He became conscious of pride and shame, and something as black and hopeless as despair.
The days that followed grew more and more hopeless for Kazan and Gray Wolf.
It was after a sigh rather more hopeless than usual that, chancing to raise her eyes they encountered those of the watcher outside, who, seeing himself discovered, smiled, and came to lean in at the open window.
Recognition by the European powers would be hopeless in such an event, and the wandering and fugitive government of the Confederacy would excite only contempt.
Jack, horror-stricken by what was happening, leaned over and watched his struggle, which he knew was well nigh hopeless from the beginning.
It was at this time that the difficulties in Schleswig-Holstein were at their height, and it seemed hopeless at such a moment, and in face of the opinion of the official representative of the Danish government in this country, to engage its attention to an affair of this kind.
Betty liked to act, and proved to have a natural talent, while Bobby, professing a great love for things theatrical, was hopeless on the stage.
" The situation looked hopeless to Lenore and she was sick.
Whoever the fugitive, he was hopeless with the oars.
His corpse, when dead, is hard to find in the jungle, and a runner is, of course, hopeless without canine help.
And the children are hopeless about it, too.
She will make you happy: whereas the indulgence of your present hopeless passionfor hopeless it iscan only lead to wretchedness.
I cast my eyes hopeless among the viduage.
And I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture, that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, "This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
First, by placing the interpretation of the oracle in the mouth of Amyntas, who must yet himself remain hopeless amid the general rejoicing, he has produced a figure of considerable dramatic effect, and so kept the attention of the audience braced, and stayed the relaxing effect of the anti-climax.
The supplies required for its subsistence were scattered in useless profusion from Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, and assistance and action were alike hopeless until the arrival of the spring.[A]
" Interference, however delicately managed, seemed hopeless after that, and I said as much.
But Lee must realise it's hopeless by the morning.