Desperately trying to retain the new-found jollity] I don't know that of my own knowledge.
Then, with a warning motion towards the door, she wrenches herself free, and stops beside the picture, trying desperately to appear demure.
If his uprightness depends entirely or chiefly on his lack of opportunity to do wrong, he will be a moral man so long as he is desperately poor or under strict control.
Yet infanticide has been practiced not so much by the desperatelypoor as by small land-holders.
The heart is desperately wicked above all things, and how will it cleanse itself?
I cannot love him, my heart is so desperately wicked, I cannot say as Peter, “Lord thou knowest that I love thee.
Few really believe that testimony which God hath given of man,—he is not only weak, but wicked, and not only so, but desperately wicked.
And thus man is left to the invention and counsel of his own desperately wicked and deceitful heart, and that is above all plagues, to be given up to a reprobate mind.
And indeed, that which makes the wicked heart desperately and hopelessly so, is the deceitfulness of it.
On our part are hearts desperately wicked, whose imagination is only evil continually.
Wilt thou find it in thy heart, which is desperately wicked?
Who believes that his “heart is desperately wicked?
But alas, it was within them that destroyed them; there was not such a heart in them as to hear and obey, but they undertake, being ignorant of their own deceitful hearts, which were desperately wicked.
When I look inwardly, I find a desperately wicked heart, which lodges all that iniquity I beheld in others.
Down came a dash of spent comets, thin and harmless-looking in the distance, but they felt desperately solid and stony when they struck my shoulders, like a mixture of choking spray and gravel and big hailstones.
Russia gives me the impression of a Government desperately anxious for peace, and driven on by some fate towards war.
A soldier in the parlor was desperately wounded and lay in a stupor on a spot of the plush carpet which was sopping wet with blood, his head pillowed on a gay silk sofa cushion.
Flandreau had gathered to defend the town and the one thousand five hundred non-combatants in refuge there, was desperately attacked next day, almost wholly burned, and nearly captured by the infuriated savages.
On their way they encountered Sergeant Jones, working desperately with several other men over the vent of one of the small cannon.
Desperately he plunged on, not taking time now to climb up for his own safety, but ploughing through the onrushing waves.
Desperately he put every ounce of his strength into his shoreward strokes.
She hesitated, desperately seeking some plausible explanation that would approach the truth.
He began tugging desperately at a string about his waist which bound to him his most cherished possession--an old broken revolver bestowed on him by Kayak Bill.
Desperately Harlan longed for some kind of craft in which he might reach the shore before the sailors left it.
The father is desperately alcoholic and peculiar at times.
During that first year the household felt no pinch; the Countess Steinbock, desperately in love with her husband cursed the War Minister.
There was a great laugh at the Council meeting; the Veteran of the Old Guard, as they say, was becoming desperately wide awake in parliamentary tactics!
Lisbeth Fischer, though the daughter of the eldest of the three brothers, was five years younger than Madame Hulot; she was far from being as handsome as her cousin, and had been desperately jealous of Adeline.
You see how right we were, you and I, in our last correspondence on this head, and how desperately unsatisfactory the condition of Ireland is, especially when considered with a reference to America.
Clutching the ropes and bolts on and about what remained of her bulwarks were a few men, clinging desperately in the face of death to their last hold on life.
It was only by dint of clinging desperately to ropes that at such times the boys avoided being swept overboard.
Phil shouted a few words of encouragement, which it is doubtful if Benton heard above the fiendish uproar of the storm, and groped his way forward, clutching desperately at anything that came to hand to keep from being swept overboard.
But they were armed with their sharp hatchets and they hacked desperately at the slimy tentacles, each of which was provided with a row of suckers for fastening upon its prey.
They were tired too, desperately tired, and all would have welcomed sleep.
There remained then only Bimbo, who could not swim, but was clinging desperately to a floating spar.
Time and again they were swept from their feet and had to struggle desperately to regain the beach.
The unfortunate creatures who were at the sides, pressed by those in the middle, clungdesperately to the railings for fear of being thrown over, and uttered cries of terror.
The girls being thus placed at the mercy of the savages, one was instantly secured; but the eldest defended herself desperately with a knife, and succeeded in mortally wounding a savage before she was tomahawked.
The other brother, being assailed by the Indians, defended his sister desperately for some time, and drew the attention of the savages so closely to himself, that she succeeded in eluding their vigilance.
So it came to pass that he was strangely and dreadfully merry dreaming, but strangely and desperatelysad waking.
Perhaps so," the other would reply, clingingdesperately to the advantage of the first service in definitions, "but you certainly do not understand it.
Under every human exterior, however fair, he postulated a heart "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Now, the truth of the matter was, Jenkins had fallen desperately in love with this singular personage.
Battling desperately with the huge icicles that threatened me at every step, I forced my way through the snow bridge and breathed again.
In truth I cannot see at present how the quarrel can be mended, and I am desperately sorry.
Desperately sorry afterward, for now she had no ambition to be bad-tempered.
And, though I amdesperately sorry about Colonel Nevitt, I am proud of Andrew Henry.
Wait a minute," he called desperately into the telephone, but it was dead, and there is nothing in this world so dead as the telephone from which connection has been suddenly shut off.
Sam tried desperately to hurry across to where she was, but he lost her in the crowd.
The girls are just going to take me over to bowl," Mr. Turner ventured desperately after a while.
For an instant the boat had disappeared; the next, she was seen rolled over in the surf, while those who had been in her were struggling desperatelyto regain the shore.
Notwithstanding this, the Arabs, maddened at the thoughts of capture, stood desperately on; they themselves might escape, and what mattered to them the lives of their wretched captives?
You know how I fell in love with a young lady in Russia, and she has fallen desperately in love with me, it seems.
The same instant he heard Archie and Jerry Bird sing out, and the man at the helm struggling desperately with a number of the Arabs, while from every part of the dhow arose shouts and cries.
We also picked up five poor fellows most desperately wounded and caught three prisoners.
Strange enough, a French captain was desperately wounded close to his father's house, which house he had not seen for many years.
Jockey McFee slashed desperately with his whip as Pharaoh thundered alongside, and the game mare gave up her last ounce: gave it up in a losing fight.
Murphy fumbled with the strap, playing desperately for time.
Samuel Clemens found his brother stretched upon a mattress on the floor of an improvised hospital--a public hall--surrounded by more than thirty others more or less desperately injured.
The vicar's chief pride was a new window, by a fashionable modern firm; quite unobjectionable in design, and with good colour, butdesperately uninteresting.
And if he were to reply that the Headmaster fulfils these conditions, I would say that the Headmaster is a prig in this one point, that he is so desperately afraid of priggishness.
In cricket the boys are desperately and profoundly interested, not so much in the game, as in the social rewards of playing it well.
