Dismayed

Examples

• I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They were not however the less astonished and dismayed when it appeared among themselves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These data revealed the fact that the quantity of copper required for the main conductors would be exceedingly large and costly; and, if ever, Edison was somewhat dismayed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was astonished, but by no means dismayed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• 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.
• She sat dismayed, hand in hand with Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Caroline looked dismayed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Hale looked at her dismayed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Even he drew back for a moment, dismayed at the intensity of hatred he had provoked. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The wind blew fiercely now, and the thickening white storm waxed bewildering; but on she came, and not dismayed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I cannot say that I felt weak before them, or abashed, or dismayed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Herbert said, Certainly, but looked as if there were no specific consolation in this, and remained perplexed and dismayed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Justinian was rather dismayed when he found they had succeeded in bringing up a gun, but when he saw the effect of the shot, he smiled contemptuously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Of course, it was a great secret, and perhaps I should not have named it now,' said Margaret, a little dismayed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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