She pulled a bedgown over her ruIned linen, gave a despairing thought to her hair, and called to him levelly.

In childhood, there is no carking care: in youth, no despairing thought.

As he formulated this last, despairing thought, the torment stopped.

A despairing thought stabbed Brody's brain.

She was doing this; her wish had brought instant return of sight, her despairing thought had sent the tentacle thing crashing to mechanical ruin.

It wasn't so bad as his first despairing thought had pictured it.

Dark, despairing thoughts went round and round in her head.

Utterly despairing thoughts, as only those of an eighteen-year-old young man can be.

And then there was the despairing thought that even if they were successful in downing the first ultralight, they weren't even halfway home.

She shook her head violently to rid it of these despairing thoughts.