Her school-days had been more than usually pleasant and rewarding, in spite of the sorrows and disappointments and unsolvable puzzles which are sure to trouble thoughtful girls of her age.
These disappointments decided Bussy to remain at the Island until joined by the expected ships from the Cape, and Suffren at this critical moment did not know what the state of things there was.
More and more gloomy times were in store for him; mishaps and disappointments multiplied.
He bore his honors and disappointments in humility and poverty.
Life was a series of hopes held out and baffled desires, of unjust disappointments and aspirations unreasonably neglected.
She danced their middle age of growing families and all their renewed hopes and disappointments and contentments.
His nature was hardened, and not chastened, by the trials and disappointments which had befallen him.
But our disappointments are as carefully planned for us as our sorrows, so I have not a word to say.
In her case the experience was so full of delight, that it seemed almost to compensate for the cares and disappointments of the whole previous year.
All these trials and disappointments are so purely Providential that it frightens me to think I may have much secret discontent about them, or may like to plan for myself in ways different from God's plans.
I feel as if I should fly, when I think of it--for she is not strong or well and her life here in Switzerland has been a series of disappointments and anxieties.
The reasons of failure were poverty, diversity of habits and dispositions, and disappointments through failure of harvest.
It will show the errors of enthusiasts, and the triumphs of the cool-thinking; the disappointments of the sanguine, and the dear-bought experience of many social adventurers.
But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
By dint of telling her friends so, she had at last persuaded herself that she had been in the secret all along; and, if she felt any other mortifications and disappointments connected with her son's marriage, she kept them to herself.
If it pleased this widowed mother to soften her disappointments about Algy's career and Algy's wife (it began to be considered in Whitford that both would prove to be failures!
The struggle in which her cheerful nature extorted happiness from unwilling fortune, gives a dramatic interest to her youthful experiences, as her literary disappointments and successes do to the years of her maturity.
This last piece of carelessness was the means of inflicting an additional disappointment on one who had already in her short life known troubles and disappointments more than enough.
Sir, "The letter with which you honored me, dated 23d of June, has given me the assurance, which was needed to console me for the disappointments that have detained me here.
What difficulties and disappointments were before them God only knew.
This concession of the Federal Government was the first of numerous disappointments in store for the Southern people, in the hope, so universally indulged, of foreign intervention.
He believed it was to be, and this was his principal object in remaining in a city where he had already suffered the delays and disappointments that make the heart sick and wear out the body.
In a year he married, and notwithstandingdisappointments and discouragements, was the same bright cheerful Warry to the end of his short life.
Of the causes she had no definite information; but it was not difficult to infer that they involved serious disappointments in regard to the brilliant schemes which had so captivated his imagination.
Strange that we gain so little of true wisdom amid the sharp disappointments that meet us at almost every turn!
And the reason of our many and sad disappointments lies in the fact, that we seek only the gratification of natural life, in which are the very elements of dissatisfaction.
If these disappointments had thrown him back upon his home, better satisfied with the real good in possession, she would not very much have regretted them.
Elyot had suffered some disappointments as a courtier in the days of Wolsey, who lavished the royal favours on churchmen.
How many Disappointments have, in their Consequences, saved a man from Ruin?
Fortune will give us Disappointments enough, and Nature is attended with Infirmities enough, without our adding to the unhappy Side of our Account by our Spleen or ill Humour.
Whatever Crosses and Disappointments a good Man suffers in the Body of the Tragedy, they will make but small Impression on our Minds, when we know that in the last Act he is to arrive at the End of his Wishes and Desires.
A Roman could not but rejoice in the Escapes, Successes and Victories of Æneas, and be grieved at any Defeats, Misfortunes or Disappointmentsthat befel him; as a Greek must have had the same Regard for Achilles.
An elegant table has not spoiled my relish for sobriety; nor gaiety for study; and frequent disappointments have taught me that nothing need be despaired of, as well as that nothing can be depended on.
The little worries and disappointments will cease to trouble us.
The fighter, for whatever cause, can bear the blows that come as a part of the battle; if a man has put his heart into living by his ideal, he is immune from the disappointments and irritations that beset man upon a lower level.
Nay more, with a full comprehension of, and insight into, these passions we can foresee the sufferings and disappointmentswhich he is fated to endure.
Of course, in these other and minor writers that the Cabinet has to give, all these disappointments do not always occur, and the crop is mixed.
There is an earnestness of purpose among English women that is very encouraging under the prolonged disappointments reformers inevitably suffer.
But the majority still remain, and are earnest in their labors with the hope for a better day, undampened by the delays and disappointments which attend every step in progress.
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