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Ahmed weeps, despondent, pacing the room nervously in a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers
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Cursing his lack of forethought in not bringing any food or drink with him, he shouldered his back pack and, with a despondent glance at the options in front of him, made a decision and set off in what seemed like the likeliest direction
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Tom looked despondent for a moment
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Yet, like most of the modern day elves his eyes were dull and lifeless, his features despondent
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The Makii remained motionless in front of him, an ever-growing line of pasty, despondent faces
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Even their dog seemed to be despondent a great deal of the time, his being sensitive to the negative vibes that were constantly floating about his airspace
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With the aforesaid technique in mind, we could choose to ‘zoom out’ or detach ourselves from the moment if we are currently witnessing despondent drama
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Many died from exhaustion; but the majority either gave up in despair and returned to Caney, or managed to reach the main road from Siboney to Santiago, where the passing troops, touched by the mute appeal on those despondent faces, devoted the greater part of their own scanty rations to aid them on the way
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I was despondent, even though he was tired and stressed with his workload he was unable to be enthusiastic with me
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―What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?‖ On a strictly material basis, however, wealth accumulation is considered the highest standard of success that partially explains why the stock market crash of (1929) caused many investors to commit suicide or why many of us grow despondent whenever our financial
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Hunting up some worms he sat and ate them in a despondent mood
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table very despondent, excused himself, and left the room to attend to another patient
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If he was being honest with himself, Frank would have had to admit that he was despondent and angry in equal measures - an unusual combination of feelings that he was having trouble dealing with
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Despondent and demoralized; they lacked the will to do anything about their situation
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Philip, now a little despondent, "Yeah, a bird like that would have
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If I hadn’t been so despondent I would have laughed
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She stood up with a somewhat despondent gesture when she finished eating and the two humans were still sitting with shameful looks
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When I started to the office I was feeling pretty low and despondent
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He had become increasingly despondent over both the loss of his financial support and the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder
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There were many people, post World War I, who felt defeated, down and despondent
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He was afraid that she was getting too despondent to carry on and he would have to be the one to assist her over the dam wall; and he was not sure if he had the strength to do that, although he was feeling so much better
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Feeling too despondent to do anything about it, she stood with the tears streaming down her cheeks
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Please forgive the very poor French language writing but I am becoming despondent and desperate and must try
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She was amazed at how motivated and ambitious he was since returning having been so despondent and resigned when
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He began thinking of the distance it was from Slough, his family and friends and became more and more despondent about the idea
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When Thomas would become despondent, sometimes it was Nathaniel who helped him to recover, sometimes Peter, and not infrequently one of the Alpheus twins
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the telephone, became despondent
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Despondent, Squirrel Girl was ignoring what was going on around her
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Nancy let Yosef and Miriam of Nazareth speak with him and went to sit in a corner of the lounge with a despondent Miriam of Magdala
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Jan gave him a nearly despondent look at that question
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Spotting land in the distance, Heracles, still despondent about the loss of his surrogate parents, started swimming towards it
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Chance's face suddenly looked despondent, shocked
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His despondent pace resembled a homeless person�s pathetic existence
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The British public were already despondent enough about defeats from Dunkirk to Singapore
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Farah sat down slowly on the edge of her bed, both sad and despondent
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despondent, impotent and angry
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Major Fred Bedingfield, the wing’s signals officer, had what looked like a despondent expression when he came to see Ingrid, who was studying a map in the wing’s operations center, with a message in his left hand
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help but feel rather despondent
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The shock and grief at seeing the burning ruins of her house had left her utterly despondent for hours
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“What’s the best face to put on this? Despondent? Worried? Depressed?
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respect making them lethargic and despondent
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Despondent at the news from the farmhouse, Leanne reported the news to her boss
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Despondent, he was about to turn the page when he noticed a name scribbled in pencil near the bottom of the memo
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But before you think this has me despondent or suicidal, let me quickly state that this has
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despondent over something that happened at work – to even notice? I know I have been
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that she had become uncharacteristically despondent
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In one of his most despondent states of mind, he ruminates: “I
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With her head in her hands, she truly felt despondent
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The realisation that it might not work with Tadeo and that she might have to look for someone else, made her feel despondent
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He felt despondent and unable to visualise himself bald
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That thought depressed him completely, and he drove away with a squeal of tyres, feeling angry and despondent at the same time
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He’s never admitted to it, but I’m sure he loves you,’ Phil said, sounding despondent
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Tadeo had to curb his tears; he felt despondent and at the same time irate
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She had woken up, feeling despondent about her dreams and confused about her men
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He had been in a terrible state since leaving Nicky’s house, feeling elated that she had finally looked at him as a man, yet despondent that she wanted to date other people and might want to stay with that bloody Italian man
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Tadeo looked despondent, but resumed his story, ‘In the end I had to go to her house with her
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I’m a very weak and flawed man,’ he said, looking shy and despondent
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Cristian sat on the couch despondent as the elevator opened and his parents came inside the loft
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” wrapping herself around the chains, she moaned, wonderfully despondent, drowning in a wish she couldn't stop hoping, even though it meant her isolation, imprisonment and death
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“It is his need and my inability to meet it which makes me sad, which sits me here despondent and grieving
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was angry and despondent because of the revelation of the red horse
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What I’m trying to say is that she loves the Upperworld and its inhabitants more than most humans, and I worry I would make her into a despondent wife down here
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And I, after the first flush of doing a good deed was over and cool reflection had resumed its sway, which it did by the time I was toiling up the hill on the way home after having been unanimously rejected as mistress by the assembled maidens, I repented; for was not Johanna now my only hope? 'Frau Meyer,' whispered Reflection in my despondent ear, 'will engage her to go to her permanently on the 1st, and she will go because of the twenty marks more salary
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She had retreated to her cave, despondent
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At any given time the news was optimistic, somber, despondent and apathetic
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The plantation owner confronted the rejected suitor at the tomato plant, but alas and alack, the despondent lad had already consumed one of the supposedly deadly fruits
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when Jackie was despondent over the loss of her baby: Onassis invited her for a
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She needed a father and this fact went a long way to alleviate my disappointments, my health problems and my despondent self-centeredness
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“I was not that good, and I had problems doing the codes and what not, so that is why they stuck me into doing dead-end work for them,” said Spike, really sounding despondent now
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That he sounded so despondent now was either an indication of the desperation of the situation or a result of his tragic loss, she concluded
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“Abram,” she said, this time sounding excited rather than despondent
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eternity in the sun, despondent, dry in the throat, dust in the eyes and a flaring anger about
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When they feel bored or despondent, they find a private spot beside one of the
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He is despondent and prepares to drown himself in a river
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The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration
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The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her `vortex', hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent
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"Never," she answered, with a despondent but decided air
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When her parents weren’t screaming at each other, they were so despondent that being around them made you feel like an interloper in their private tragedy
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"But for your face I should think you were a little despondent," said I
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He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favorable result
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Seldom have I seen him so utterly despondent
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He was despondent
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If, for instance, the Sulaco Collectorship was generally understood, in the political world of the capital, to open the way to the Ministry of Finance, and so on for every official post, then, on the other hand, the despondent business circles of the Republic had come to consider the Occidental Province as the promised land of safety, especially if a man managed to get on good terms with the administration of the mine
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For a minute he was still, and with the same despondent face gazed at the baby; but all at once a smile, that moved his hair and the skin of his forehead, came out on his face, and he went
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But in spite of his melancholy bearing and despondent expression, there were few who could say that they had ever seen a man of more distinguished presence
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On Monday he was quite despondent
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It is likewise natural (again from experience) to feel so despondent about your trading failures that everything else you do is burdened by a dark melancholy
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‘What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight of him?’ Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall
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They all stood despondent and silent
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Martin was deeply despondent over it
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Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:—
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Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure
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Over the last 15 years, I cannot count the number of times investors have gotten extremely excited about our strategies as they were doing well relative to their benchmark, nor can I count the number of times they have been despondent about short-term underperformance