1
Peter Blood went off in a state of mind bordering on despair.
2
He returned to the camp in a frame of mind bordering on despair.
3
She felt the absence of the Baelrath with an intensity that bordered on despair.
4
He reached Villa d'Este in a condition of profound depression, almost bordering on despair.
5
Still Max did not allow himself to show signs of anything bordering on despair.
6
At the close of the tenth century there was great suffering in Europe, bordering on despair.
7
The archduchess was pale as death, and her countenance wore an expression of grief bordering on despair.
8
He fell into a state bordering on despair, tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, and wept bitterly.
9
There was total depression, bordering on despair.
10
From the king's castle to the poorest slum in Seven Dials there was a temper bordering on despair.
11
The temporary excitement caused among the colonists by their return soon gave place to a dejection bordering on despair.
12
He was assailed, too, with violent temptations of the flesh, which reduced him to a state bordering on despair.
13
He slunk away through the trees like a beaten dog; and I went home in a state bordering on despair.
14
He was still writing and arguing about it - with a growing impatience which sometimes bordered on despair - until his last weeks.
15
Living at home, bordering on despair, and not wanting to ring the job centre or rely on anyone but myself for my own welfare.
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"Trust me?" she said, in a tone which bordered on despair, but which he mistook for derision.