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  • Returned to the city and subwayed downtown to the NY Is Books Country festival, where I was doing a signing along with a host of other half-despairing authors on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon.

    Sunday in the Park with Jim: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • I brooded over the futility of life as I listened to that half-despairing, half-hopeful album, in which Gaye asks whether anyone cares enough to save "a world in despair."

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • The mad, half-despairing struggle we have waged all these long centuries, can find only in 'the Son of Man,' in the omnipotent 'Son of God,' its explanation and its end: 'God was manifest in the Flesh, reconciling the

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • The girl had noticed that her father's eyes always rested upon her in a mute, half-despairing appeal, yet she had not courage to question him upon the matter.

    Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

  • The analysis was an exhaustive one, and the intelligence displayed by the landlady was every way worthy of the shrewdness indigenous to her country; but her answer was not so lucid to her listener as to herself, as appeared by his bewildered looks, and his further half-despairing interrogatory.

    Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

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