desperation

• Perhaps it was thought best not to drive him to desperation, as we had already punished him, or rather, his unfortunate subjects, pretty severely We had still no end of expeditions on shore; one especially turned out most disastrously. —  The Three Commanders
• The poor bees in their desperation, appear to have dosed the unfortunate drone to death: as though they expected by such liberal feeding, to produce some hopeful change in his sexual organization It appears to me that these facts constitute all the links in a perfect chain, and demonstrate beyond the possibility of doubt, that unfecundated queens are not only capable of laying eggs, (this would be no more remarkable than the same occurrence in a hen,) but that these eggs are possessed of sufficient vitality to produce drones. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
• The Outagamies and Mascoutins gathered strength from desperation, and sent flights of fire-arrows into the fort to burn the straw-thatched houses. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• He always feared that the knowledge of what he had done might some day drive the man to desperation, and make him become more wicked through horror at his own action Don't his father and mother know even now who did it?' —  Chatterbox, 1906
• They conducted themselves with fearful desperation, and after the republicans had sent word, as the battle waned, to the Convention at Paris, that La Vendée was no more, the wounded leader of the insurgents was carried through their ranks, and they rallied, gaining the day in a decisive victory, by which the government troops lost twelve thousand men Fifty-six miles farther brought the excursionists to Le Mans, where the Vendéan army was finally destroyed by the forces of General Marceau. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany

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