I have to be able to tell the men that help is coming or they might go under from sheer despair.

"Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who in sheer despair over this ever makes things worse and worse instead of better."

I brought Grace back last night in sheer despair, and I sent for the doctor this morning.

In sheer despair, she spoke out plainly.

In sheer despair I stopped him, and when he said 'Where to?'

Just when it seemed the demon would break him upon a wheel of sheer despair, the image shifted.

One wrong word, and he either attacks in sheer despair or : uses that blade on himself.

In sheer despair, Crayford took Frank's arm and led him aside a few steps.

In sheer despair, the persecuted friend said the first thing that came into his head.

He dragged out of himself somehow a better voice, loud and passably firm from sheer despair, that said: "I'll never give in."