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Jane’s temper was not desponding, and she was gradually led to hope, though the diffidence of affection sometimes overcame the hope, that Bingley would return to Netherfield and answer every wish of her heart.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

“Why don’t you write? That always used to make you happy,” said her mother once, when the desponding fit over-shadowed Jo.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“This is what it is to live,” he cried; “now I enjoy existence! But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful!”

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

He sat desponding on the threshold of the door and gazed bleakly over the dried and hardened fields from which every particle of anything which could be called food or fuel had been plucked.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

It is tea that revives me after fatigue, tea that stimulates me when I am at work, tea that cheers me in desponding moments.

From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max