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I hope this does not sound like a right wing red-neck rant as ironically my background is very much from the left and I now dispaire and despise all of the 'New Labour' ethos.
Lazy and deceitful part 2: the cover-up Rachel 2006
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_Spanyards_ made through words stone blind, Desperate by shame, ashamd dispaire should part, Like damned scritchowles, chimes to dead mens hours, Make vowes to fight, till fight all liues deuours.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And we of the towne that knew our weaknesse, and that we might do no more, it seemed better to saue so much small people, then we and they to fall into the furie of our enemies, for otherwise could we not haue done, but tempt God, and died as in dispaire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thus the Earle being gone, the Frenchmen began to dispaire and scatter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And armed _Trust_, which neuer can dispaire, But hopes good hap; how euer fatall deare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And Alerane liued honourably amonges his people, was beloued of his father in lawe, and in good reputacion and fame, arriued to old yeares, still remembring that aduersitie oughte not to bring us to dispaire, nor prosperitie to insolencie or ill behauiour, and contempt of thinges that seeme small and base, sithe there is nothing vnder the heauens that is stable and sure.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Alas, what blindnes is that, which captiuateth the wittes and spirite of him, that feedeth himselfe of nothing els, but vpon the rage of fantastical despite and vpon the furie of dispaire.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Wherfore the king, like one in dispaire, would take no more counsell or helpe.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In the meane while, which way soeuer his father passed, the townes and castels submitted themselues vnto him, [Sidenote: He beginneth to dispaire of good successe.] so that Richard began to despaire of the matter, insomuch that he durst not approch néere his father, but kept aloofe, doubting to be entrapped.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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After this, bicause he was in dispaire to haue issue by his second wife, about Whitsuntide he sent ouer his daughter Maud the empresse into
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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