despond
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John already desponds for the Limb, but he can’t feel it now.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State-thing breathed o'er thee— Thy clanking chain, and Erin's yet green wounds, Have voices—tongues to cry aloud for me.
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
Italy, Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this state-thing breathed o'er thee.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
He, distraught, Sits by her gloomily, desponds, Scarce to her questions he responds, Full of exasperating thought.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry
Youth, inexperienced in woe and disastrous fate, beholds every evil magnified, and desponds on every new disappointment, more especially after having failed in attempting freedom.
From The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 by Holcroft, Thomas
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Society and Solitude
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Novel Study: Gulliver’s Travels, Parts 3–4
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