He caught Sean's outstretched hand in both of his and held it with desperate strength.

I stabbed again, with a desperate strength, and this time found the spot.

And then his voice began to rise as he found desperate strength bubbling up within him.

She gripped the man's other arm and held on with desperate strength.

It took all her desperate strength to evade the spell.

Her arms came around him quickly and with desperate strength.

But the last of his desperate strength was ebbing from him.

He could almost see it as a presence, feel its desperate strength.

It tried again, throwing itself at the glass with desperate strength.

And there was desperate strength in Will Kent at that moment.