Discouraged

Examples

• 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.
• The want of money discouraged laboring and handicraftsmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I'm going to be a _first-rater_; and don't you be discouraged. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well, look here,' said Fledgeby, rather discouraged by the circumstances under which he found himself pursuing the conversation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The little girls undertook it, but they are discouraged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Promiscuous pillaging, however, was discouraged and punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It must have discouraged, too, the increase of the manufactured produce, more than that of the rude produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This success flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me, by criticising my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The simple way she assumed her rights in Birkin's room maddened and discouraged Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was discouraged. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The apprentices had not the master’s skill in holding the letters together, and they grew discouraged as time after time the type would separate as they were ready to print from it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Don't be discouraged, my friend. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Not discouraged, the Abbé then called upon Puillet of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They are discouraged, or complain of being thwarted in their good purpose by a hard fate, and shift to some other line of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was getting discouraged. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Nat