And so great is the dejection That he feels, there 's nothing yet Found to rouse him or divert him.
I, my lord, my best assistance Offer thee to strive and fathom From what cause can have arisen Such dejection and such sadness; This henceforth shall be my business To divert him and distract him.
Then his dark eye flashed fire, and he made a great effort to rouse himself from the deep dejection that had stolen over him.
She paused in doubt and irresolution, and no one who passed could fail to mark the air of deep dejection which sat upon the pale anxious face of the young girl.
Thus exhorted, Magisaunikwa disclosed the cause of his dejection to his sympathizing friend.
I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horrour than seems now to attend it.
Their dejection disappeared, and gave place to an activity which showed itself in their willingness to perform any duty laid upon them.
The majority even of those who in their dejection laid down their arms had no desire to remain under British rule.
That most of them gave up their arms to the enemy in moments of despondency I can understand, for I, too, know what dejection is; but that there were others who drew sword for the English and against us is hard to understand.
Well, I may be disabled from duty, but my tamed spirits and sense of dejection have quelled all that freakishness of humour which made me a voluntary idler.
No dejection of mind, and no tremor of nerves, for which God be humbly thanked.
The animal spirits are necessary to healthful action; and dejection and the sense of solitude will turn the stoutest into dreamers.
But Evelyn's recent change of manner, her frequent fits of dejection and thought, once pointed out to Lady Vargrave by Mrs. Leslie, aroused all the affectionate and maternal anxiety of the former.
His being bound and confined must symbolize his dejection to a position where he can have no possible influence over the nations during the time he is bound.
The deep dejection of his attitude frightened her.
In Coleridge we feel already that faintness and obscure dejection which clung like some contagious damp to all his work.
The Lines to Joseph Cottle have the same philosophically imaginative character; the Ode to Dejection being Coleridge's most sustained effort of this kind.
I was somewhat diverted with the dejection of his looks on his return.
When he was come, with much despondency and dejection the king told him of that which had happened.
Of its gladness and enjoyment the yoke-fellows are dejection and pain.
When he once more, recalling his duty to the Italian, retraced his road to Norwood, the slow pace of his horse was significant of his own exhausted spirits; a deep dejection had succeeded to feverish excitement.
We had been accosted by him in front of one of the brilliant cafés, as, trembling and rubbing his hands, a picture of hopeless dejection and misery, and in a quavering voice he begged us to buy him a drink of brandy.
The melancholy of her eyes and the wretcheddejection of her pose disappeared, and her sad face lit up with a beaming, happy smile.
Whatever was the cause, the effect was dejection and a sense of impending evil; this was especially so in Dr.
The confirmation of his suspicions roused the chief from the dejection into which the gradual tightening of the coils had thrown him.
This unexpected and unwelcome dejection possessed me until the whole line of floats displaying the images of the gods had passed and the racing chariots came along.
And the sight of it, when one is surrounded by persons so habited, conduces to dejection and depression.
With forlorn dejection at one moment, and with irritated susceptibility at another, he saw this handsome young soldier assume and exercise all the privileges of a cavaliere servente.
It now became necessary if I would live to provide myself with food, and in this enforced occupation I obtained some relief from the dejection which had formerly obsessed me.
How long I had remained in the state of misery and dejection to which I had abandoned myself I cannot say.
Stricken beyond a child's usual capacity to feel or realise such a blow, she was herself seized with a serious illness, after which she fell into a dejection which lasted for the better part of a year.
He had been most hard hit of all her victims at the Van Griffs' ball, and had experienced deep dejection over the rumour which had that day associated her name with Robert Gault's.
He thrust his hands deep in his pockets and sank into that attitude of dejection common to drunkards.
And in that moment of dejection the poor fellow's devotion brought me no little comfort.
He cast himself into a chair with such an air of dejection as made me pity him from my heart.
And I followed in a tumult of mortification and wounded pride, in such a state of dejection that I wished I had never been born.
At length, when he was sitting one day in unusual dejection and railing at the vanity of courts and kings, Mr. Carvel approached him with a book in his hand.
