Despite Nimrod's quiet despair, Cal couldn't help but smile at this.

His tone was that of a man in a state of quiet despair.

Bleak yet penetrating, each of Brown's elegant stories echoes with the same quiet despair.

It is a place of quiet despair.

As they finally emerged into the stableyard, Mikhail frowned, filled with quiet despair.

"So you did make it," Killeen said with quiet despair.

But the girl said in a voice of quiet despair: "It is a golden sail."

So Philippus's news only served to make him shake his head in a quiet despair.

The quiet despair of the damned in his voice.

It seemed that a quiet despair informed everyone.