"Despondingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mis'ess Yeobright," said Christian despondingly. "I wouldn't live with him a week, so playward as he is, if I ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... only in the establishment of the prisoner's innocence, and were anxious only for his acquittal. For their sakes was gratified at what I hoped would prove the abrupt conclusion of the case. The prisoner had spoken; his head again hung down despondingly—his eyes, gazing at nothing, were fixed upon the ground; the turnkey whispered to him that it was time to retire—he was about to obey, when the judge's voice was heard, and it ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various |
