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I have painted a beautiful Woman, and am despairing, dying for the Picture.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

I am despairing, signore," said he, in English sufficiently strangulated to be amusing but nevertheless quite comprehensible, "that you and the sweet signorini are to see our lovely Naples under tribulations so very great.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)