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The brains behind the town's secret is the 70 year old zealot and owner of Despair's main economy, a huge military scrap metal operation.
Tom Alderman: Jack Reacher, Once More Into the Breach - An Audio Book Review 2008
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But I was in Giant Despair's dungeon two weeks at that.
Adventures in the Land of Canaan Robert Lee Berry
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Despair settled in her heart for the first time; often before it had knocked but been refused more than a glance within, but now her enfeebled arms could hold the door no longer, and that most dread of all visitors took possession of his own -- for is not the human heart Despair's only habitation, without which he is but a homeless wanderer?
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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To be your own black beast; to loathe your own soul; with a full heart to despise your own understanding -- this is to start upon Despair's Last Journey in one sense or another, to find either the gulf or the gates of hope.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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The problem was not new, indeed, it has been Despair's conundrum since the world began: Whose fault that my life has been as it is?
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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I saw while there that it was my keeping company with him that got me into Despair's hands.
Adventures in the Land of Canaan Robert Lee Berry
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While with Despair's dark phantoms it hath striven --
Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur Nizamat Jung 1913
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They call it 'Lover's Leap,' and I have thought after awhile the name might be changed to 'Despair's Leap.'
Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895
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a lottery to which none but G.B. would choose to trust his all, there is no harm just to call in at Despair's office for a friend, and see if
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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With cold Despair's averted eye, "-- and perhaps one or two more.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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