Disappointments

Examples

• These delays and disappointments are quite odious. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is nothing that they added to my anxieties and embittered my disappointments--the steady march of events has inexorably passed them by. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In short, they suffered so many disappointments, that they began to think it would be necessary to build a palatial residence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And so, when the paroxysms came on, each more severe than the last, they were fresh agonies, and greater disappointments to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You shall not be distressed, she said, by hearing how soon my disappointments and my trials began--or even by knowing what they were. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The carriagewe had disappointments about the carriage;one morning, I remember, he came to me quite in despair. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Doubtless they knew crosses, disappointments, difficulties; but these were well borne. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These disappointments of her patronage were a sharp retort, and made me feel independent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You may fancy there can be no MERCENARY motives in those whose DISAPPOINTMENTS are well known. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is a world of disappointments, as John discovered when he reached the Dovecote. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The disappointments got time on; the fears and fits of anger only made that short discourse pleasanter, when it came at last. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• One cannot foretell the surprises or disappointments the future has in store. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Stanton