Dismissal

Examples

• She spoke amiably, yet with the least hint of dismissal in her voice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• These ornaments are of value, yet are they trifling to what he would bestow to obtain our dismissal from this castle, free and uninjured. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His dismissal of himself from his description, was hardly less remarkable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Sir Pitt went and expostulated with his sister-in-law upon the subject of the dismissal of Briggs and other matters of delicate family interest. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Fifine recovered rapidly under his care, yet even her convalescence did not hasten his dismissal. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Whatever the words might be, the tone seemed like a dismissal; and quitting his leaning posture, he walked a little way towards her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She could give me no explanation whatever of her sudden dismissal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Five o'clock struck, the loud dismissal-bell rang, the school separated, the room emptied. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If, in half an hour from this, you still insist on my leaving the house, I will accept your ladyship's dismissal, but not your ladyship's money. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He also received his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the order to wait. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their horses stood at the gate; they mounted, and rode off, Moore laughing at their abrupt dismissal, Helstone deeply indignant thereat. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then he made a little gesture of dismissal, with his eyebrows. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Bowls and Firkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Loretta