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Despondently, Stan figured it was time to quit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despondently, I picked a few lice off my sweater but gave up trying to get them all.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Despondently he returned, and came down on the path with the rest of us; his wife took his arm.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

Despondently, Nobody has any feelin' for me here at all.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Mayne, Rutherford

Around a pale pond huts of beechwood built Despondently squat near the rusty reeds; A lamp of brass hung from the ceiling bleeds Upon the wall and windows blots of gilt.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various