Those feathers upon which the strain bears hardest are very apt to give way; and even if the awkward falconer has succeeded in getting the hood on, he finds to his chagrin that he has done so at the expense of a damaged hawk.
Therefore, the chagrinof the officials over the independence and ability of the majority of the American correspondents is easy to understand.
But her satisfaction was short-lived, for she had the chagrin to learn soon after her conquest that de Sévigné had perished on the field of honor at the hands of Chevalier d'Albret.
Her deep chagrin revived the hopes of Count Tristan and his mother, and awakened the welcome suggestion, that he, in reality, held a tenderer place in her heart than she had ever admitted to herself.
But at the same time, as soon as his passion was spent, reason resumed her sway; he felt his faults, he acknowledged them, and sometimes with such chagrinthat his rage was rekindled.
A memorable mortification and chagrin for our poet was now prepared by his enemies--he seems never to have lacked enemies--with lavish and elaborate malice.
In earlier manhood he says:-- Study has been for me the sovereign remedy for all the dissatisfactions of life, having never had a sense of chagrin that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Among the subjects of extreme chagrin to the commander of the Virginia troops, was the practice of desertion.
With infinite chagrin General Washington was compelled to relinquish his hopes of victory, and turn his attention to the security of his army.
His extreme chagrin at this measure, and at the delays resulting from it, was expressed in anxious letters to Mr. Fauquier, then governor of Virginia, and to the speaker of the house of burgesses.
The resolutions of congress respecting the prisoners taken at the Cedars, were also the source of much embarrassment and chagrin to the Commander-in-chief.
The blood flamed in Francesco's cheeks, nor did it soften his chagrin to note the look which Valentina flashed down at him.
At last he withdrew them slowly and presented a countenance that passion and chagrinhad strangely ravaged in so little time.
I believe that you are mad," cried Gonzaga, in a frenzy, but his mood sprang rather from the chagrin of seeing his interloper prevail where he had failed.
He looked back when he found himself pursued, and his countenance very clearly expressed the chagrin which he felt.
The day of auction came round; but, to the chagrin of the commissioner, the expected flocks did not make their appearance, and the sale had to be postponed.
So strong a tyrant would soon ravage the preserve, killing the helpless creatures by scores--of course to the chagrin and grief of their fond mistress, and the joy of Yellow Jake.
To speak the honest truth, we had been well "whipped" by the red skins; and the chagrin of the army was only equalled by its exasperation.
Somewhat to Michael's chagrin his share in the matter was overlooked by Mr. McDonnell, and the oration he had prepared to quell the long-lipped Irish father was never delivered.
Not long after Pi-ryu rejoined his brother he died of chagrin at his own failure.
His chagrin was so great that when he got back to Koryŭ he spoke slightingly of the emperor, to the great displeasure of the court.
Does it show more delicacy than was shown by Wang-gön when he took every means to cover the chagrin of the retiring king of Sil-la by treating him as a royal guest?
The tortoise in great chagrin turned about and paddled him back to the shore.
But to his chagrin the emperor never gave him an opportunity to say what he desired to say about the great dictator.
It is said that his death was caused by chagrin that Sin-geum was not killed with his brothers.
I demanded, full of chagrin that I should have so unfortunately been absent.
In a few words I asked him to accompany me, at the same time slipping a couple of half-crowns into his hand, much to the chagrin of the occupier of the house.
But I was full of chagrin that I had been out all night, waiting on that lonely road, while that mysterious affair had been in progress.
I had always flattered myself that nobody could keep observation upon me without I detected them, and I certainly felt considerable chagrin at my present helplessness.
The possibility of hoisting him with his own petard looked good; and the thought of his chagrin when he discovered that he had helped me to take Nessa out of his clutches made the scheme positively alluring.
She was a beauty and no mistake; but to my chagrin the men had damaged one of the planes slightly in getting her out of the hangar.
But when he came to boast himself to Dora, he found to his chagrinthat he had only earned a scolding.
Reuben, who was to have the farm, developed a shy and hopeless taciturnity under the pressure of the family chagrin and privations, and found his only relief in the emotions and excitements of Methodism.
And for this sorrow andchagrin Herminie now blamed herself as she cast a tearful glance around her pretty room, reproaching herself the while for her unwarranted expenditures.
The marquis, warned by Gerald, was not surprised at the expression of bitter anger and chagrin on the face of Madame de Senneterre, for that very morning Madame de la Rochaigue had informed the duchess that Mlle.
The deuce take me, if--" But a meaning look from Olivier made the old officer realise how much chagrin he would cause the worthy housekeeper by refusing to don her gift.
Ah, my son, my dear son, you can not imagine the terrible chagrin you are causing me.
Olivier's parting words to Herminie had reawakened the grief and chagrin from which her mind had been temporarily diverted by Commander Bernard's unexpected arrival in company with Ernestine.
Clemens wrote Howells of the interview, detailing at some length Twichell's comical mixture of delight and chagrin at not being given time to air the fund of prepared statistics with which he had come loaded.
The Duchess, quite beside herself with chagrin and fury, only thought of some means or other of revenge.
But immediately meeting two negro women laden with plunder, they wheeled them to the right about, and marched them off, to the manifest chagrin of the newly emancipated citizens.
Chief of the Bureau, who came in with Mr. Randolph, declines the honor of going out with him, to the great chagrin of several anxious applicants.
The profound chagrin produced by this event is fast becoming a sort of reckless unconcern.
To-day I observed the clerks coming out of the departments with chagrin and mortification.
This intensifies the chagrin and doubts prevalent in a certain class of the community.
But the joy of many, and chagrin of some at his escape so easily, was soon followed by the startling intelligence that a raid from Gen.
The tobacco savers know it well, and their faces exhibit chagrin and disappointment.
God gives every man a letter of warning or invitation to carry, and what will be your chagrin in the judgment to find that you nave forgotten it!
Great was your chagrin when you found that it pertained to some sickness or trouble.
Unable to bear the chagrinthat was hers, she sprang up.
Anger, surprise and chagrin swept the elfish face of the French girl.
So, swallowing his chagrin as he best could, and putting on the semblance of placidity, the King in silence awaited his coming up.
Equally so of the Queen's admiration; callous to the approaches she had commenced making, to the chagrin of older favourites.
Kirtland is on the Kirtland branch of the Chagrin River, so named from the disappointment of a party of early surveyors, who thought they were in the valley of the Cuyahoga, the first river to the westward.
He had managed to elude the search, and to their chagrin Spriggs and his party had been obliged to return empty-handed.
She was conscious of the fact, and inwardly dwelt with mortification and chagrin upon the contrast presented by her own faded face to that of Elsie, so fair and blooming, so almost childish in its sweet purity and innocence of expression.
But, happily, the protoplasmic peau de chagrin differs from Balzac's in its capacity of being repaired, and brought back to its full size, after every exertion.
My peau de chagrin will be distinctly smaller at the end of the discourse than it was at the beginning.
