What can have happened to him, that he should be so despairing?

She looked so wild, so white, so despairing, I went up to her.

You needn't look so despairing, I am not going to stay.

Yet how can I leave you-sosad, so silent, so despairing?

I was so despairing-whatwith that damned plumber and everything!

I am so crushed, so despairing, that I have no longer strength to do anything.

Her accent was so despairing that he relinquished her.

Her voice was so deep, so sepulchral, so despairing, that Regina clung closer to her.

Why had she been so hopeless, so despairing?

What young heart is so despairing that to waken into a fair day does not bring courage?

All the evening it flowed; the weeping had never sounded so despairing; it went to the hearts of all.

You mustn't be so despairing.

As he came home on the crowded car, his face was so despairing that the people looked curiously at him.

Now, as the little soul said this terrible thing she fell forward upon her face, so afraid was she and so despairing.

There lay in these words a sorrow so heart-breaking, a plaint so despairing in the voice, that the king was involuntarily much moved.

The general had solicited his present mission for the purpose of following up a secret hope, albeit no hope was ever so despairing.