"Despairful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he seated the gentlemen and the ladies at table and so ordered it that his mistress should be placed right over against the spot where the thing should befall. Accordingly, hardly was the last dish come when the despairful outcry of the hunted damsel began to be heard of all, whereat each of the company marvelled and enquired what was to do, but none could say; whereupon all started to their feet and looking what this might ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio |
