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Meanings of was despair in English

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Usage of was despair in English
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Wherever there was despair there was a drowning of sorrow in drink.
The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel
2
It was despair, not sorrow, that Prosper read on such a face.
The Forest Lovers
3
Global Citizen Festival arrests After the joy, there was despair on Sunday night.
The South African
4
Her look was haunting: there was despair and there was hope in it.
Miss Bretherton
5
There was despair in his face, but it was a gentler thing now.
The Alaskan
6
She swayed towards him, and in her eyes there was despair.
Mufti
7
The present was a living pain whose lightest element was despair.
The Man
8
He learned that what she had made of it was despair.
King Coal : a Novel
9
Of this sentiment, which to Cato the heathen was despair, Christianity fashioned melancholy.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
10
He removed his spectacles for a moment, and there was despair in his eyes.
The Great Secret
11
It was not stupor that shone there, it was despair.
The Story of an African Farm
12
There was despair written all over the thief's simple face.
Shadow prowler
13
As the thing's teeth closed around her throat, Toshiko's last coherent emotion was despair.
Slow decay
14
To the sympathetic heart of Nan there was despair in every line of his attitude.
The Forfeit
15
Over at the Iraq Operations Group, there was despair.
The way of the world
16
You appeared so grave I feared it was despair.
My Lady of the North
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