Some of the condemned are bathed in sweat and murmuring desperate prayers for help.

I felt Sibeal's gaze upon me and said his name like a desperate prayer.

And she thought about the desperate prayers she'd thrown to the sky.

On his knees before the bench he looked like a religious penitent, a man in desperate prayer.

"The god must care about us very much," said Quentin, remembering his desperate prayer of only moments ago.

A desperate prayer escaped him, full of the old Egyptian names of the gods.

But Jane put up a desperate prayer on her own behalf.

It's just so hard sometimes, listening to their desperate prayers.

Doris continued to cry beside him, her trembling hands clasped in a desperate prayer.

For the desperate prayer has indeed come from the CastCenter.