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1730.  Thomson, Sophonisba, I. i. Mean time the dauntless, undespairing youth Lay in a cave conceal’d.

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1757.  Dyer, Fleece, IV. 601. ’Twas there Perils and conflicts inexpressible Anson, with steady undespairing breast, Endur’d.

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1824.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), I. 233. Who is it that has struggled for me … with undespairing diligence?

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1847.  Fr. A. Kemble, in Rec. Later Life (1882), III. 313. That faith which alone can bear us undespairing over the earth.

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