Discourage

Examples

• The superiority of coin above bullion would prevent the melting down of the coin, and would discourage its exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You discourage me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You discourage me, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He hoped that with intelligent assistance I should meet with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Those agricultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discourage their own favourite species of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It has grown discouraged, and stopped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Educationally, emphasis may not be put on eternal truth, but it is put on the authority of book and teacher, and individual variation is discouraged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At the end of three-quarters of an hour he seemed a little shaken and discouraged, and stopped, and the red roach was taken out for that day and the pickerel left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At this time the North had become very much discouraged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Poor Worcester was half blinded with his: and, seriously, a man going to be hanged could not well have appeared more discouraged or dismayed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I stopped, then, discouraged. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Particularly significant are the stories that represent him as discouraging extreme mortification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Barlow was thus arriving at his discouraging conclusion, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All this news was very discouraging. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On this day (18th) the news was almost as discouraging to us as it had been two days before in the rebel capital. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• However, I hadn't any; and that part of the work is, at first, a little discouraging, I must allow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That was in my green days, and I soon learned that the failure of an experiment never discourages him unless it is by reason of the carelessness of the man making it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This might have been discouraging to some people; but, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, nothing discourages Me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent, marriage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By raising the rate of mercantile profit, the monopoly discourages the improvement of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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