Dispelled

Examples

• Bad work like this dispelled all Caleb's mildness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Since that little cloud was dispelled all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Adrian was on horseback; he rode up to the carriage, and his gaiety, in addition to that of Raymond, dispelled my sister's melancholy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The mention of the dinner dispelled Miss Stepney's last scruples. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• How then would he use his power when her expression of contempt had dispelled his one motive for restraint? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It dispelled the visions--and it was bearable because it did that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For, as the song says--subject to your correction, sir-- “When the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled if Venus appears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She completely dispelled the persuasion that Asia was in some irrevocable way hopelessly behind Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Turning as from a fallen idol, she made other discoveries which rapidly dispelled her romantic illusions. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There was so much of truth and nature in his resentment, that her doubts were dispelled. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The short delusion is quite dispelled now. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Either the mist was not out again yet, or the wind had dispelled it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• All fears and apprehensions were dispelled. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He said that Mrs. Micawber had latterly had her doubts on this point, but that he had dispelled them, and reassured her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But at the very outset of Gerty's campaign this vision of the green-and-white shop had been dispelled. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The cloud of temper was dispelled when she came back; the flash in her eye was melted; the shade on her forehead vanished. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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