With a few brief words he set us right, Pulz, Perdosa, and I listening intently; the others indifferent in the hopelessness of being able to comprehend.

There was utter hopelessness in Avery's reply.

" Burnham had settled down into his chair with a look of weary hopelessness on his face.

A terrible world to dream of, worse, far worse, in darkness and hopelessness than Dante's lowest circle of hell.

But these ill-wishes for the one party and these good wishes for the other party are independent of anything but utter hopelessness as to the preservation or the restoration of the Union.

But with that thought, too, had come a curious pang of hopelessness into his heart.

The men of that day looked too often with utter hopelessness to the administration of justice; there was no peril so great in all the dangers that surrounded their lives as the peril of the law; there was no oppression so cruel as the oppression wrought by the harsh and rigid forms of the courts.

There was a tired hopelessness about them, such as was never seen among the early mill-girls.

The unbridgeable chasm between Ideal and Life could not be spanned, and the baffled idealist met this hopelessness with the shrug of irony.

The future had been shrouded by a heavy mist of hopelessness alwaysfor Lady Mary.

Hence a man ought not to be alarmed to the point of hopelessness by the calamities of the moment, nor to be elated to heedlessness by temporary exultation, but by placing his hope of the future half-way between both to make reliable calculations for either event.

Dejected even to hopelessness for a time, he believed in nothing.

Very few realize how much pain a little child may suffer from sorrow and hopelessness from lack of love.