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Translations despondence, despondency n → Niedergeschlagenheit f, → Mutlosigkeit f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation. As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence. "The sun cannot be yonder," said Hannah, with despondence. |
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