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Thus we may have a forlorn hope of making a bridge between them in the next two or three weeks.

But the little bum had more patience than I had and just lay there most of the time chewing his cud in forlorn bitter-lipped thought.

I began to feel a little forlorn, having been parted from my husband Top and our five children almost a month now.

This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.

The forlorn smile with which she said it, so touched him, that tears started from his eyes.

They look forlorn, even somewhat dazed, but otherwise seem to be being correctly treated.

So the lieutenant with his forlorn hope of followers led the advance attack that was to draw the enemy's fire.

She cried so bitterly and looked so forlorn and heartbroken and ashamed as she faltered out her woeful story.

The sort of sway Beijing exerts contrasts markedly with Tokyo's rather forlorn attempts at regional leadership.

But in daily life, researchers studying older people have found, cortisol might be helpful in getting the forlorn out of bed.

But it's a deed to be reserved for a forlorn hope; I'd not take Linton by surprise with it.

Of an affair with a White Russian officer in Jiamusi . Forlorn but lilting syllables All the matrons cursed her in every city .

Unmoving, he made a forlorn statue on the cliff from sunrise to sunset.

Then with a forlorn look about him, he straightened up.

I'm a poor , miserable, forlorn drudge ; I shall only drag you down with me .

I often think, " said she, " that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.

FORTY years ago Singapore, now home to the world's busiest port, was a forlorn outpost still garrisoned by the British.

But traders say Lehman and WaMu have more debt than cash, meaning they have no equity value and that buying their shares is a forlorn cause.

As cool as it sounds, there's a sort of forlorn feel to the place.

Back at Menghai's forlorn "tea city, " Chen Li was surrounded by what he said was $580, 000 worth of product he bought before the crash.

Even the flawed and forlorn figure of Joe Keller seems to realise that.

It will, again, at the request of the Nepali government, be extended for six months, in the forlorn hope that the deadlock can be broken.

They wander forlorn through the mists, searching for a sun they cannot find until madness or hunger claim their lives.

the central bank poured billions into big banks and the money market in a forlorn bid to calm fears.

African hopes that the AU mandate in Mogadishu be turned over to the UN look forlorn; no Western or Arab country wants to send troops.

Nadal was a forlorn figure at the start of the third set, receiving a massage to his right knee.

Or there may be a solitary tile-kite, without wind-wheel and flown too low, looking pathetically lonely and forlorn.

Their forlorn-looking journey made it clear that capitalism reaches a dead end on the North Korean side of the Tumen river.

Jean-Marc Bosman cuts a forlorn figure as he stands in his kitchen.

Women, for the most part, are the ones who take chicken soup to the sick, home-made cake to the elderly and. . . sex to the forlorn?

Everybody laughed, even Evans, though he looked rather forlorn, lost in the as yet unexplored implications of this new ending.

Well-dressed city dwellers emerge to hand out bottled water and biscuits to forlorn peasants who shove and push for the food.

Still looking at the bakery with a forlorn expression.

They came to start housekeepIng and married life In the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather Inadequate Income.

Stately edifices that once housed colonial administrative offices look forlorn with missing windowpanes and moldy plaster.

No one there cherished the forlorn hope that boys of our sort could make any advance in learning.

As forlorn minority shareholders in Yukos can attest, western investors would also benefit from property rights and decent courts in Russia.

Norma AT twenty-two, holding a bridal bouquet, wearing a floppy hAT, perplexed, faintly forlorn, on the edge of the unknown.

The Bible sometimes refers to "wailing" as an especially forlorn kind of weeping.

Of all spots on the bleached and desolate upland this was the most forlorn.

Still, those forlorn mansions also show how a place that squandered its competitive advantage, as Penang did several times, can regain it.

A forlorn-looking maple tree stood in the center of a yard of patchy grass, mud, and twigs.

Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.

Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.

All at once, seized by a fit of forlorn grief and indignation, I could not help bursting into tears.

She felt a hopelessness of their even being extricated together from that forlorn place.

With the Korean peninsula again engulfed in crisis, that strategy is looking increasingly forlorn.

She had a forlorn expression when I left her three days ago.

Forlorn thoughts from the forsaken hives of all ages, swarming in the air, hum round my heart and seek my voice.

On July 26 I spent half an hour with the couple during a day of driving and walking through the forlorn town.

Unfortunately, that looks like a forlorn hope.

No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.

Sebald, a lyrical German writer with the same forlorn urge to rescue lives and cultures from oblivion.

Wilson was elected, the twins were defeated-crushed, in fact, and left forlorn and substantially friendless.

It can only denounce offenders publicly, in the forlorn hope that the shame will induce them to behave better.

THE saga of the Borders bookstore chain has entered a forlorn new chapter.

I felt somewhat forlorn when I landed and my bags were set down beside me on the glistening beach.

Jack Kerouac described the image as a "long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities. "

The forlorn bid to ban agents was introduced by the late Rajiv Gandhi, a Congress prime minister in the mid-1980s.

The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping , breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.

"Does anyone know where I can access the data? " asks a forlorn, newly arrived NGO worker.

In her heart she deemed the life deeply dreary because it was so loveless-to her ideas, so forlorn.

Heros are born to be alone and forlorn.

She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.

The situation of Hitler's armies at the end of May was forlorn .

Forlorn and woeful the old capital lay in gray morning light as we entered.

Such hopes are, for the time being, forlorn.

Imagine seeing a child looking forlorn because she cannot figure out the puzzle she is working on.

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother.

It took rescuers in Desert Hot Springs, Calif. , about 30 minutes to free the forlorn-looking pup from the 18-inch hole.

Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn.

Revenue sharing seems a forlorn hope.

and in my desolate home only my forlorn self will remain as my last offering to thee.

To create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

I walk into the living room and find a forlorn Wes sitting on the sofa, cross-armed and pouty.

They popped up their heads and saw the forlorn little maiden.

My mom's been so forlorn. Ever since my daddy left.

Love you, just the forlorn hope heart.

Nothing could be more forlorn than the furniture.

The village went to its rest on Tuesday night, sad and forlorn.

That looks a forlorn hope.

They do however cling to forlorn hopes that somehow they can escape being revealed or the subsequent justice.

It seemed a forlorn hope that we would find a taxi.

We'll never find people as nice as that to buy our house, we agreed as we made our way home, slightly forlorn.

It starts to fall From early in the morn Who is to answer the call That frigid and forlorn?

She looked wretched and forlorn, despairing of the arrival of a friend who had promised to meet her.

and then they found a little nook in a stable all forlorn

It reminded her of their first forlorn tete-a-tete, on the evening of Mrs. Weston's wedding-day;

The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn

Ended up a broken forlorn dream

In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;

Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn

Just forlorn wing of place where they're free as dove

When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,

Forlorn and gazing on the deep blue surge,

And from the forlorn world his visage hide

And the pale thin girl with eyes forlorn

Faded and torn, old and forlorn

If we idle our youth away , our memories of life will be a forlorn tradegy

And as a forlorn soul