He put such divine despair into the words, "Except my life, except my life, except my life!"

Mr Miller waved his hands in a gesture of divine despair, spun round, darted up the aisle, turned, and bounded back.

As one remarked to me in tones that were thick with a divine despair: There's absolutely nothing for a chap to do.

With the acute vision of the soul she saw again, and yet again, the deadly malice of the octopus, the divine despair of the man.