Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Braces her up, - perchance despair...
...earth thou seemest a white despair...
...premature and a patent absurdity, and yet there are indications which, though not infallible, are nevertheless encouraging. The average weight is considerably above that of last year, and the men, though inexperienced, seem desirous and capable of a thorough training. Considering this, there seems to be no necessity for despair, but encouragement to a determined and systematic training...
...soul, heart, pulse, and bones are made to do duty, and by hook or by crook something is scared up to which each of them is compared. But finally the theatres and insurance offices present too many difficulties, and the attempt to continue the metaphor is given up in despair...
...Entry-Book is still an unbroken expanse. It should be remembered that any man who can stay on his machine has a chance in this race, and that he will have a half-mile start if that is necessary to equalize him with the scratch man. Let no one despair, therefore, but enter his name anyhow, and, if not satisfied with the handicap, no one is obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter. Every time a man is beaten he gets a longer start...