He appeared to be struggling with desperate energy against the impossible.

He picked up the rat, which began squealing loudly, with desperate energy.

He had shown no dread of their desperate energies then.

With desperate energy I pulled myself to a sitting position.

Brennan silently screamed her name with a surge of desperate energy.

Only the absolute might still absolve them in their own eyes and sustain their desperate energy.

The Victoria, by this time, had risen to the height of one thousand feet, and the black hung to the rope with desperate energy.

He thought himself lost and swam with desperate energy.

We recognize the desperate energy needs that will confront the 21st century.

And then he went plunging forward, driving his body through the water with a sudden, desperate energy.