I had seen him lost before, but this despondence was something new.

Through the afternoon it rained: the gloomy sky intensified his fatigue and despondence.

He looked at the ruin with mournful despondence, with quivering lips.

My fits of despondence were deeper, and of more frequent recurrence.

The occupied mind, however acute its sensibility, rarely sinks into despondence.

But no, my Edwin, let us not give way to despondence.

I smiled at the despondence in her tone as I extinguished the kerosene lamp-light.

Does gloomy despondence bespeak a higher degree of social virtue?

He looked up, despondence inscribed upon his once-jovial features.

Yet there is no good in despondence: vigilance and activity often effect more than was expected.

Out of this mood of despondence I had to lift myself by an act of will.

I combated his despondence, and assured him of triumph if he would persevere in a literary career.

Universal despondence now pervaded the whole house.

He seemed to have left his despondence, like a heavy weight, at the bottom of the river.

But, notwithstanding his declaration of despondence on this head, his imagination involuntarily teemed with more agreeable ideas.

In a third she was walking into Clarice's house, an expression of utter despondence on her face.