17 Verbs to Use for the Word desperation

Whereas, St. Bernard well adviseth, "We should not meddle with the one without the other, nor speak of judgment without mercy; the one alone brings desperation, the other security."

When I have never felt such desperation as tonight!

" The firm moderation, the courageous and simple devotion, breathed by this letter, were the distinctive traits of the career of Paul Rabaut, as well as of Antony Court; throughout a persecution which lasted nearly forty years, with alternations of severity and clemency, the chiefs of French Protestantism managed to control the often recurring desperation of their flocks.

It was the circumstance of being alone in a solitary office, up stairs, of a building entirely unhallowed by humanizing domestic associationsan uncarpeted office, doubtless, of a dusty, haggard sort of appearance;this it must have been, which greatly helped to enhance the irritable desperation of the hapless Colt.

If the Belgians had not received bread from the outside world, then Germany would either have had to spare enough to keep them from starving or faced the desperation of a people who would fight for food with such weapons as they had.

Gradually they become more audible, and as the fire of their zeal warms up, and the eloquence of the minister enflames, they get keener, fiercer, more rapturous; the intervals of repose are shorter, the moments of ecstacy are more rapid and fervent; and this goes on with gathering desperation, until the speaker reaches hisclimax, and stops to either breathe or use his handkerchief.

Thou art that Winter-storm that nips my Bud; All my young springing Hopes, my gay Desires, The prospect of approaching Joys of Love, Thou in a hapless Minute hast took from me, And in its room, Hast given me an eternal Desperation.

Portland For Tamey Drove over the bridge today, saw the water far below and once again imagined your last jump desperation, pain, relief, a twist of gallantry across your face, your final bow to the truth you always told me to tell.

The Author of Evil was present in the room with him in bodily shape, and, potent with spirits of a melancholy cast, was impressing upon him the desperation of his state, and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career.

Such a design, in a soldier of ability, indicates desperation.

"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.

This, of course, only renewed the determined desperation of the remainder.

It set desperation in the hearts of the riders, which was communicated to weary ponies driven to a last effort of speed.

The women showed greater desperation.

But ten courses without moisture bred desperation; and all at once, down the length of that banquet board, went a hoarsely whispered plea, in the richest imaginable brogue, "Hostess, where 's the pump?

You know how things stood with meyour mother, my good spirit, dead, my uncle away, my father bent on driving me to utter desperation, and Martha Browning laying her great red hands on me" "Oh, sir, she really loved you, and is far wiser and more tolerant than you thought her." "I know," he smiled grimly.

He prohibited any one from discoursing on the miseries of life in such a manner as to cause desperation.

17 Verbs to Use for the Word  desperation