Citations:despond
English citations of despond
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- The Pilgrims then, especially Christian, began to despond in their minds, and looked this way and that, but no way could be found by them by which they might escape the river.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- But I will endeavour to detail these bitter circumstances to you, my dear sister; and while I am wafted towards England and towards you, I will not despond.