“There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.”
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”
“Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.”
“..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”