She said nothing, but went about her work with a most despairing face.

When he spoke again, his voice was low and despairing.

He lay face up, looking at her with despairing eyes.

Another trial came to them that left all more despairing than before.

He said most people had found the article "not a despairing piece."

With another despairing shake of his head, he left me.

Best to be sure, though, he told the despairing youth.

The girl sat up and pushed back her hair in a despairing way.

I have to get your hair fixed,' he said in a despairing voice.

Then with a little despairing motion of her hand she turned to go.

Oh, the first one was sort of a despairing sigh.

Remember the despairing articles they kept writing about us five years ago?

He was just starting on his third subject when the radio gave another despairing call.

It had the look of a man both desperate and despairing.

"The despairing days are gone, and we're not going to let them come back, ever," he said.

His approach to Rod had been a last despairing effort.

Then, with a last despairing glance through the back window, she saw the reason.

With that, she sighed, a despairing sound, and took another step down.

In her most despairing moods she had never thought of trying this.

The young fellow made a despairing plea for his girl.

When it became too dark to search any longer, he made his way home, angry and despairing.

There was another silence, but this one had more of a despairing edge to it.

He thought about it for a moment, then gave a slow despairing shake of the head.

The woman looked at me and shook her head with a tiny, despairing smile.

He turned in that direction for just a moment, his face confused and despairing.

Since last night I have a feeling of such despair.

He went through a period of despair after his wife left him.

Earlier in the day, I had been close to despair.

She could see no way out of her present despair.

And never have I heard such despair in a voice.

But all the same I was almost in a state of despair.

Now let's talk of something else, before we fall into despair.

These children live with despair every day of their lives.

Everything was being taken from her, she thought in despair.

He did not know what else to do with his despair.

I asked, trying to keep the despair out of my voice.

He could not keep the despair out of his face.

She looked from one to the other of them in despair.

We will take away their despair and give them hope.

Several times during the next few hours she almost gave up in despair.

By 1889 they were in despair and looked for change from their problems.

My heart goes out to all people who feel such despair.

When a month had gone by, I was almost in despair.

My mind seemed to be in a state of despair.

And in all of their lives, they could not remember feeling such despair.

In every case, I was looking at the face of despair.

To his despair, at the last moment she seemed to change her mind again.

When she looked at him, he had never before seen such despair in her eyes.

I had met one years ago and the look of despair in his eyes would never leave me.

Oh, God, he thought with the despair of a man going down for the third time.

He had despaired of his own life by now too.

But perhaps this was too much, the house now despaired.

But they despaired of any other way to move the city forward.

He had been despairing at the future of Europe and its culture.

And for a moment he suddenly despaired of his answer to the problem.

"For a while, I think he despaired of my ever understanding anything."

"We despaired that anything would ever get better," he said.

And sometimes we despaired, for the times themselves seemed mad.

They have opened up a debate he'd despaired of having.

At times he despaired of ever being half the prince his father was.

If I ever came close to despairing about my future as a writer, it was then.

Yet he despairs neither of the present nor the future.

It was a quality he had despaired of ever finding.

But the hard parts lay ahead, and he almost despaired.

Shapiro despaired of getting any information from the young man.

Charlie Brown despaired that he would never see her again.

She needed the rest, but despaired of the wasted time.

But he has despaired of trying to convince him to stop.

There have been times I despaired of this park ever opening.

However, nothing comes of his many attempts to find work, and he despairs.

There was a long silence, and she despaired of their help.

He despaired over losing David and having to kill two men.

By this time the waiting room had filled up, and we despaired of ever being seen.

She despaired that anything could ever be accomplished in such a society.

Again I despaired that no one was taking this seriously enough.