"Despondently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have thought of that,' replied the young man despondently. 'Now, perhaps you don't know that the full report was mailed from Ottawa to our house in London, and the moment we get to Queenstown I will telegraph my partners to put the report in the ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... of treachery in my own camp that at times I despair of the result of the struggle," he says, half despondently. ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
... know!" moaned Gully, rocking despondently with his head in his hands. "I must have gone clean mad for the time being. . . ." He gazed gloomily at Slavin and Yorke, muttering half to himself: "What little things do trip a man up in the end! The best laid schemes o' mice and ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... you manage things by yourself?" Aunt Emma exclaimed, wringing her hands despondently. "A girl of your age! without even a maid! and all alone in the world! I shall be afraid to let you go. Dr. Wade won't ...
— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen
... concurred the pessimist glumly. "I reckon we took on a pretty big contract when we started to buck Simon Varr!" He wagged his head despondently. "Why—a man might as ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... of his pocket, opened it, glanced at it, looked surprised and worried, and stood silent a few moments. Then he waved his hand in a wandering and mechanical way, and made an effort or two to say something, then gave it up, despondently. ...
— The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg • Mark Twain
... drunk again," she thought despondently. "Well, and why should it matter to me if he does, after all that outrageous ranting? He has been unforgivably insulting—Oh, but none the less, I do not want to have him babbling of the roses and gold of that impossible fairy world which the poor, frantic child really believes in, to some ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... thinking all this time of her own lot. Had she been alone she would no doubt have brooded over it despondently; but Miss Murray's almost volatile nature kindles the philosophy of hers. She knows now that Floyd Grandon did not marry her for love, that he did not even profess to, and that in most marriages there is at least a profession of love at the beginning, and it is very sweet. Even such ...
— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... kind-hearted, and he had a very good opinion of mankind; thus it was that he shook his head despondently as he replied: ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish • Various
... knew her customer, served him without a murmur, deftly avoiding the gaze of ungenerous triumph with which the injured captain favoured her as he raised the cooling beverage to his lips. The glass emptied, he placed it on the counter and sighed despondently. ...
— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs
... replied, despondently. "Awhile back I got my mind off the game. Then—people who don't like me have taken advantage of ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... She would have had him express doubt, despondently sigh; would have heartened him with her poem. The confident "rather!" jarred. She hurried from ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson |
