Example Sentences

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She only shook her head and showed him a face of deep, unhoping sorrow.

From A Beautiful Alien by Magruder, Julia

"Some day to come, my boy," would be the hopeful response of an unhoping heart.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

He was one of the world's lost sheep, one of the army of the unhoping.

From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Hough, Emerson

I should not revert to the unhoping inertia of my previous state.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

It is the physical hunger of the soul in wan limbs and hand, and the fixed gaze of the unhoping eyes—despair made flesh.

From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward