Discouraging

Examples

• 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.
• I confess you led me to hope for a less discouraging answer than that, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was met by the same discouraging answer Mr. Dempster had not set eyes on the stranger of whom we were in search. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This might have been discouraging to some people; but, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, nothing discourages Me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All these failures would have been very discouraging if I had expected much from the efforts; but I had not. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If a nation's destiny were really bound up with the politics reported in newspapers, the impasse would be discouraging. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All the way up he has had discouraging experiences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was very discouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is like the policy which would promote agriculture, by discouraging manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In spite of this discouraging mishap the engineers and others present felt confidence in the aeroplane's power to fly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They must be gently requested not to abuse hell; they may be reminded that their stories are both untrue and discouraging. Plato. The Republic.
• I tugged at it diligently, but it was discouraging work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yet these inversions, though discouraging, are not essential in the life of movements. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Leaving the others to console Beth, she departed to the kitchen, which was in a most discouraging state of confusion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Mary, if you've got something discouraging to tell me, I shall bolt; I shall go into the house to Mr. Garth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My publishers gave me a most discouraging account of its sale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In that minute, however, he contrived to dispose--in the most discouraging manner--of all the questions I had to put to him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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