It was during a period of dull despair that he started reading his mother's diaries.

Enthusiasm had crept into his veins, dull despair fell away from him like a mantle.

His voice dropped, and a dull despair crept into it.

The lord gazed in dull despair around the dark cell.

Ursin looked up again at that, dull despair giving him the appearance of a man of twice his years.

All eyes were strained to look at her, but she stood like a statue of dull despair.

She stared down at where Trystan worked with a dull despair.

He stared with dull despair at the drip of blood from his imprisoned wrists.

All hope forsook him now for the moment, and a dull despair settled down upon his heart.

A dull despair had Bill in its grip.