At last I stuck my knife into it; but how shall I express our disappointment when, instead of fine plums and rich juice, we found only pebbles and water!
The main design of this publication is to prove from example that the pain of disappointment will be much increased by ill-temper, and that to yield to the force of necessity will be found wiser than vainly to oppose it.
And what would have been his disappointment if, on entering the family at Mapleton, that pretty brown head and fair face had not met his glance?
I have another very sensibledisappointment to struggle with?
If the fox of disappointment ate into their vitals, they determined, Spartan-like, that none should know it.
Disappointment and scandal are in his zone, which means he will probably be the cause of all your trouble.
The colour of night and disappointment has now become mine, as it has become that of Denmark.
This time even Miss Prue was satisfied, and entered heartily into all the plans and arrangements for the flitting, while Morton forgot his own disappointment in the interest of this great change.
The labour of man and beast was thereby augmented; and all nature being in a state of sluggish indisposition, it was evident to every eye of experience that there would be a great disappointment to the hopes of the husbandman.
The hesitation of Hamlet, the credulity of Othello, the baseness of Emma Bovary, or the irregularities of Mr. Swiveller, caused neither disappointment nor disgust to their creators.
Poets are not necessarily fortunate in love; but they usually fall among more romantic circumstances, and bear their disappointment with a better grace.
Excitement brought the flush, disappointment or a chiding word banished it.
She knew the moment's pain of disappointment caused by the realization that with all her love and riches she had not, for the time being, anything to offer this untried soul that could lure it from its vision.
This gentleman, as he termed himself, proved such a disappointment to us that we decided to have some amusement, so we praised his scheme highly and advised him that we would certainly return the following evening.
In the bottom of the dark, dirty, foul-smelling ship we lay for hours, thinking every moment that she would start, but to our disappointment it was another half day before she set out on her voyage.
Needless to say, I forthwith informed Anderson it was "all right," and our careers since then have proved that our mutualdisappointment was for the best.
This disappointment quite upset me and I hardly knew just what to do.
Smilinda's letters had not been saved, a great surprise and disappointmentto the Parson, who of course knew nothing of Montague's mistaken arrest.
There was, perhaps, a trifle of a pucker upon her forehead, perhaps a shade of disappointment in her eyes.
If they did--" Francezka turned her head with an air that showed that neither sorrow nor disappointment had impaired the lofty martial spirit she had inherited from the Kirkpatricks.
He told me he had got word that his brother, the bishop, was coming to visit him and Madame Cheverny that day, and he knew a sharp disappointment was in store for the bishop when he should find Madame Riano absent.
And away bustled the little housewife, disappointment and vexation alike forgotten in the pleasant prospect of making mother comfortable.
Perhaps even Betty herself did not realize how keen this disappointment was to the little cripple.
I thought I'd come to see you for a little while," she explained to Betty, who was trying to smile, and not show the disappointment she felt.
Next moment, however, there was a little sigh of disappointment from every one; the visitor was only Winifred.
Ian's thoughts were also tinged with sadness and disappointmenton the same account.
It is at my time of life thatdisappointment tells.
I don't believe, in my view of the word, you ever had a disappointment in your life.
She looked at him with eyes that filled with tears, "Disappointment is too easy a word," she said.
He did not know what he had expected or hoped for, but there was disappointment and a little offence in his mind.
But yet, in none of these ways had he any disappointment to endure.
It was her first experience of disappointment and deprivation.
If it's needful that he should write seldom, he might be pleasant when he writes," she said, with a spasm of disappointment and offence choking her voice.
It would be difficult to describe thedisappointment with which Charles Wargrave looked after her, the curious revulsion of feeling that had taken place within him!
Well, then, that seems to make it harder to carry out my plan," Fred remarked, disappointment in his tone.
A grunt of disappointment went up from several interested veterans of the Banded Brothers gathered around the table, and the rabbi plunged his way into the crowd.
Throughout the discussion the Wildcat's unmounted disappointment ached until it was suddenly quieted by a detail of the forthcoming ceremonies which he did not impart to his associate.
A vulture sat blinking upon a rock close by, and the lad picked up a stone to throw at the evil-looking creature, by way of working off his disappointment and chagrin.
Mr. Frank had gained his end and without trouble: yet he felt a disappointment he could not at once explain.
He grew daily more overbearing and hard to please, and his ebullitions ofdisappointment and rage were terrible to witness.
But the long lane of disappointment had its turning at length, and he hurried home to Dick, paper in hand.
And they put their own disappointment out of sight, these kindly German folk, and tried to make her think they cared as little as if they were used to driving every day.
I saw the look of disappointment on the man's face, and something told me I ought to stop.
Though the hearers went away as full of anger as they had entered the church, and some with a dull feeling of disappointment as to what they had got there, yet no one felt anything but kindly towards the old vicar.
He had to give his ribbon to his aunt in charge for Sylvia, and that was a disappointment to his fancy, although he tried to reason himself into thinking that it was better so.
Disappointment is generally at the bottom of these changes.
Disappointment in the schools is said to have been the determining cause of this infatuated act.
But I suspect, dear Louisa, mine is the greaterdisappointment of the two.
