undespairing

It's both mature and childlike, knowing and innocent, clear-eyed yet undespairing.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

In calm undespairing, with steady eyes fixed on the morrow—

To France 1917

In calm undespairing, with steady eyes fixed on the morrow --

A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

The cawing of strange birds and the wind among the boulders and souls, weeping, weeping -- unhoping, undespairing, weeping, weeping ....

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

Kościuszko's own intensely Polish soul speaks through the document -- the anguish of a Pole at the sight of his country's wrongs, the cry of a desperate but undespairing patriotism, the breathing of the spirit that should bring new life.

Kościuszko A Biography 1907

The undespairing Norman died instantly, without feeling or admitting defeat.

Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Two years passed before those men brought positive proof of the undespairing Norman's fate.

Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Whatever may have been his thoughts, the undespairing Norman grappled with his troubles in the usual way.

Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Where La Salle had ploughed, others were to sow the seed; and on the path which the undespairing Norman had hewn out, the Canadian D'Iberville was to win for France a vast though a transient dominion.

France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858

The sinews, it is true, were hardened at the expense of blood and flesh, -- and this literally as well as figuratively; but the staple of character was a sturdy conscientiousness, an undespairing courage, patriotism, public spirit, sagacity, and a strong good sense.

Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858