desponds

No wonder that Clive hangs his head; rebels sometimes, desponds always: he has positively determined to refuse to stand for

The Newcomes 2006

In the loss of the educational clauses, that bill lost all which could entitle it to a separate notice; and, where the Government itself desponds as to any future hope of succeeding, private parties may have leave to despair.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

He doubts not, desponds not; he speaks always with certainty, and though he suffers from impatience of postponement, yet he ceases not to insist upon the truth.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

Sir, humanity desponds, and all the inspiring hopes of her progressive improvement vanish into empty air at the reflections which crowd on the mind at hearing repeated, with aggravated enormity, the sentiments against which a Chatham launched his indignant thunders nearly a century ago.

The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

Hence, like a person haunted by spectres, he loses the free enjoyment even of a safe and prosperous state, and on the first shock of adversity he desponds.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

[6] "The Tuxford waiter desponds exactly as you do."

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

To provide for his family needs, the artist is forced to prostitute his genius by painting pictures for the vulgar _connoisseur_, and he desponds at the prospect of a life spent under such conditions, but the muse whispers consolation: "Thou hast time enough to take delight in thyself, and in every creation which thy brush lovingly depicts."

The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883

Blots there are, and the vicar sometimes desponds when some fresh evil crops up; but Miss Sophia always tells him to hope, and that --

The Carbonels Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

A man who is easily discouraged, who is not willing to put the good seed out of sight and wait for results, who desponds if he cannot obtain everything at once, and who thinks the human race lost if he is disappointed, will be very unhappy if he persists in taking a part in politics.

From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858

It is an age that desponds of a future life -- representing death as an eternal separation -- in which, if men grieve awhile for the dead, they hasten to reconcile themselves to the living.

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838