Significados de desperate strait em inglês

But even in that desperate strait the allies turned fiercely to bay.

They were in a desperate strait and they knew it.

Young Jack found himself now in a desperate strait indeed.

Lenoir was a desperate man, in a desperate strait.

You have helped your mistress into a desperate strait.

She might help him in his desperate strait.

The nation was in desperate strait, and some were for one thing and some were for another.

He came for me then with the frenzy of a man who is in a desperate strait.

Perhaps we are to be repaid now and Americans are to help us in this desperate strait.

She was in a desperate strait, and almost began to wish she had never left St. Chad's.

Oh, my father, you can understand, if mother cannot, into what a desperate strait I have been brought.

He was no braggart; but his self-confidence was amazing, and it brought him through many and many a desperate strait.

The Germans, in what they felt might be a desperate strait, had thrown to the wind caution, tradition, and the usages of civilized warfare.

In the desperate strait to which Paris is reduced, something more than a man estimable for his private virtues, and his literary attainments is required.

The economy is not in desperate straits yet, but confidence appears shaken.

The next few years therefore found the colony again in desperate straits.