desperate

• I was 'up against it'--desperate--and I believed if that fellow got away I'd never see or hear of him again. —  The Lady Doc
• Do your utmost, for the situation is growing critical here--desperate, in fact And desperate was the word when Symes contemplated going into his own pocket for money to make up the deficit--money which he had told himself he would salt away against that rainy day with which he had become all too familiar Symes's private bank account had grown to quite a respectable sum since that memorable morning when he had received word that his balance was in the red. —  The Lady Doc
• I felt within me strength--desperate, insane strength. —  The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War
• The longer the war goes on, the more desperate is Germany's position. —  Combed Out
• The struggles of the wounded man were desperate--so desperate, that in his agony he overset the table, and, in the confusion, tore off the cloth, and disclosed a face horribly mutilated, and streaming with blood. —  Jack Sheppard A Romance

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