beesett

• lantern-jaws

• lantern-jawed

• agonized, despairing, desperate, forlorn, last-ditch, to be in despair

• despairingly, desperately, doubtfully, forlornly, like hell

• act of despair

• to stand at bay

• act of despair

• frenzied efforts

• to stand at bay

• to hold on like grim death

• to be reduced to extremes

• to do sg desperate