1 But sometimes, again, the "Appeal" would be desperately serious.
2 He was fighting for his life; he gnashed his teeth together in his desperation.
3 He was near enough to the door to feel the night air, when desperation seized him.
4 Even so, however, she knew what was decent, and clung to her traditions with desperation.
5 Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.
6 He was just out of the hospital, and desperately sick-looking, and with a helpless arm; also he had no overcoat, and shivered pitifully.
7 Sometimes, in desperate hours, he would find himself wishing that she might learn what it was, so that he need not be ashamed in her presence.
8 Jurgis had not known this, or he would have swallowed the stuff in desperation; as it was, every nerve of him was a-quiver with shame and rage.
9 He was working among the theater crowds, flitting here and there, taking large chances with the police, in his desperation half hoping to be arrested.
10 They were often very turbulent meetings, with half a dozen men declaiming at once, in as many dialects of English; but the speakers were all desperately in earnest, and Jurgis was in earnest too, for he understood that a fight was on, and that it was his fight.