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1  But sometimes, again, the "Appeal" would be desperately serious.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
2  He was fighting for his life; he gnashed his teeth together in his desperation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  He was near enough to the door to feel the night air, when desperation seized him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
4  Even so, however, she knew what was decent, and clung to her traditions with desperation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  He was just out of the hospital, and desperately sick-looking, and with a helpless arm; also he had no overcoat, and shivered pitifully.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  Sometimes, in desperate hours, he would find himself wishing that she might learn what it was, so that he need not be ashamed in her presence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
8  Jurgis had not known this, or he would have swallowed the stuff in desperation; as it was, every nerve of him was a-quiver with shame and rage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
9  He was working among the theater crowds, flitting here and there, taking large chances with the police, in his desperation half hoping to be arrested.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
10  They were often very turbulent meetings, with half a dozen men declaiming at once, in as many dialects of English; but the speakers were all desperately in earnest, and Jurgis was in earnest too, for he understood that a fight was on, and that it was his fight.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8