Herbert was naturally too reserved to make advances, however inclination prompted, and some months passed in inactivity, though the wish to know him, and by kindness remove his despondency, became more and more powerful to the brothers.

The result was a dozen vague surmises,only one of which seemed to be popular, and to suit the dyspeptic despondency of the party,a despondency born of hastily masticated fried pork and flapjacks.

For some time I have struggled both against my own evils, and the share I take in the general calamity, but my mortal part gives way, and I can no longer resist the despondency which at times depresses me, and which indeed, more than the danger attending it, has occasioned my abandoning my pen for the last month.

Oh, Mary, I felt so very happy as she thus spoke, that I thought I must find it very easy to conquer myself, but I was mistaken, painfully mistaken; I had encouraged despondency and gloom for so long a period, that it required every exertion, in the very least, to subdue it.

il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals^, blues, lachrymals^, mumps^, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness &c adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.

It has bearings that are well calculated to exert a powerful influence upon our hitherto prosperous system of government, and which, on some accounts, may even excite despondency in the breast of an American citizen.

Is it possible for language to express a deeper despondency, or a more tender grief?

Is it right or is it wrong, in view of all this, to feel despondency?

His years forbade much despondency, and, while he remained as constant as if he had been a next-door neighbour, he was buoyant, and the life of the whole crew, after the first week out.

While leading this lonely life he seems gradually to have given way to gloomy despondency.

But over against this man, who never knew despondency, after his vision hour, stands another German.

Despair not Sad heart, thy state shall mend; repel despondency; Thy head confused with pain shall sense regain: Despair not.

Xenophon then said it appeared to him that they ought to relinquish the arrangement in line, and to dispose the troops in columns; "for a line," pursued he, "will be broken at once, as we shall find the hills in some parts impassable, though in others easy of access; and this disruption will immediately produce despondency in the men, when, after being ranged in a regular line, they find it dispersed.

He had shown no despondency at any time until the night of the last meeting and the morning of the parting.

In short, it was by our feeling forsaken, that the skill of our enemies spread despondency through our ranks; and this despondency, not the arms of Russia, caused us to fall.

Add to this that, in Jamaica, a long period of contention with the mother-country had left a feeling of bitter resentment for the past, and sullen despondency as regards the future.

And, forgetting for the moment the presence in which he stood, Mr. Fishwick allowed the despondency he felt to appear in his face and figure.

Small sympathy and smaller joy is there in it nowit wears only a lantern-jawed, lack-lustre despondency.

The centre of the continent must be reached by the shortest possible journey; it being advisable to avoid the despondency that seizes on a party during a protracted expedition, and to keep up throughout a certain degree of excitement.

I endeavored also immediately to occupy myself, and at the same time to comfort my despondency.

Only to Clare Van Degen could he cry out his present despondency and his loathing of the interminable task ahead.