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The Slough of Despond, illustrated by Rachael Robinson Elmer, 1913. The Slough of Despond (/ ˈ s l aʊ ... d ɪ ˈ s p ɒ n d / or / ˈ s l uː /; [1] "swamp of despair") is a fictional bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, into which the protagonist Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them.
The sentence — which also includes three years of supervised release after the two years in prison and the forfeiture of her gains from her time at Alameda Research — came as something of a ...
Illustration of the execution of Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Immurement (from Latin im- 'in' and murus 'wall'; lit. ' walling in '), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1]
On November 28, 1904, the St. Gallen Cantonal Council pardoned her by 156 votes to 1, commuting her sentence to life imprisonment in solitary confinement with an obligation to remain silent. [2] Frieda Keller's sisters obtained another pardon from the cantonal parliament for early release fifteen years later, after an initial refusal at the end ...
That is, "never despair". nil igitur fieri de nilo posse fatendumst: nothing, therefore, we must confess, can be made from nothing: From Lucretius' De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), I.205: Nil igitur mors est ad nos: Death, therefore, is nothing to us: From Lucretius' De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), III.831: nil mortalibus ...
Despair in the air: For many voters, the Biden-Trump debate means a tough choice just got tougher. ... while Biden struggled mightily to land debating points and even to get through many sentences ...
— Monime, wife of Mithridates VI (72/71 BC), after failing to hang herself by her crown's strings in fulfillment of her death sentence "I am free and the subject of a free state." [28] — Dumnorix, Gallic chieftain, (c. 54 BC), before being killed by Roman cavalry. The assassination of Pompey.
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -The joy of thousands of Palestinian families who made it back home in north Gaza after a ceasefire with Israel is turning to despair as the cold reality of uninhabitable ...