I prayed desperately for it to end, but I knew it would not.

I ran forward, hammering my fist against the rock, and desperately praying for any small niche in which to bide.

Praying desperately that her training would be enough to hold against whatever undead skills this thing had brought back with it.

She prayed desperately for the watch to hear and answer her cry.

She had been praying desperately over the last few weeks to St. Anne, her late mother's namesake.

When he was about sixth in line, David prayed desperately.

Please, somebody, help me, she prayed desperately as nausea swamped her.

He prays desperately to God, only to have Lucifer appear before him.

But right now Herewiss had no sympathy for it, and he shut the sound out of his mind as he prayed desperately.