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1  I got up despairing, and went out despairing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
2  His recent despondency, not to say despair, was gone in a moment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
3  I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
4  The despairing way in which my mother and I look at each other, as I blunder on, is truly melancholy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
5  I confided all to my aunt when I got home; and in spite of all she could say to me, went to bed despairing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
6  I confess that I began to despair of her recovery, and gradually to sink deeper and deeper into the belief that she was dead.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
7  I submitted; and, with a countenance as expressive as I was able to make it of dejected and despairing constancy, came out of the room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
8  From this document, I learned that Mr. Micawber being again arrested, 'Was in a final paroxysm of despair; and that he begged me to send him his knife and pint pot, by bearer, as they might prove serviceable during the brief remainder of his existence, in jail.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
9  That Mrs. Steerforth might not be induced to look behind her, and read, plainly written, what she was not yet prepared to know, I met her look quickly; but I had seen Rosa Dartle throw her hands up in the air with vehemence of despair and horror, and then clasp them on her face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD