Disappointment

Examples

• Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But it won't be easy, for it is a dreadful disappointment, and poor Jo bedewed the little fat pincushion she held with several very bitter tears. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then it was that in my despair and disappointment, after a sleepless night, I came straight to you by the early train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I feel the greatest remorse for the disappointment of which I have been the occasion; but you will forgive me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Disappointment was hardly a strong enough word to describe the circumstances. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And yet, I was perverse enough to feel a chill and disappointment in receiving no welcome, and rattling, alone and silent, through the misty streets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She had her girlish ambitions and hopes, and felt some disappointment at the humble way in which the new life must begin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They're all on 'em men as has met vith some disappointment in life,' said Mr. Weller, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Rude disappointment, sharp cross! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Every one of them can be unhappy, every one can feel disappointment and remorse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It affords me the greatest pleasure to record now my agreeable disappointment in respect to his character. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The truth is that she was conscious of a somewhat keen shock of disappointment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• These delays and disappointments are quite odious. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is nothing that they added to my anxieties and embittered my disappointments--the steady march of events has inexorably passed them by. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In short, they suffered so many disappointments, that they began to think it would be necessary to build a palatial residence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And so, when the paroxysms came on, each more severe than the last, they were fresh agonies, and greater disappointments to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You shall not be distressed, she said, by hearing how soon my disappointments and my trials began--or even by knowing what they were. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The carriagewe had disappointments about the carriage;one morning, I remember, he came to me quite in despair. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Doubtless they knew crosses, disappointments, difficulties; but these were well borne. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These disappointments of her patronage were a sharp retort, and made me feel independent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You may fancy there can be no MERCENARY motives in those whose DISAPPOINTMENTS are well known. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is a world of disappointments, as John discovered when he reached the Dovecote. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The disappointments got time on; the fears and fits of anger only made that short discourse pleasanter, when it came at last. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• One cannot foretell the surprises or disappointments the future has in store. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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