Time was when evil-doers had undertaken to escape up-river, or to lose themselves in the hills to the northward, but this was a desperate adventure at best and had issued in such uniform disaster as to discourage its practice.
In many places the granite fragments which still encumber them lie piled one above another in such titanic chaos as to discourage man's puny efforts to climb over them.
No difficulties or calamities could discourage them.
The blow which the Romans had received in Africa did not discourage them.
I don't want to discourage you, daughter," her father went on.
We not only want to drive 'em back, but we want to discourage 'em from coming over again.
However, this was no time to discourage impetuous youth.
In like manner, his religious teachings were characterized by an ideality so high as quite to discourage ordinary virtue.
It can not be done" is their motto, and by it they constantly discourage the hopeful and extract all enthusiasm from new workers.
In this man can assist by stimulating her spirit of independence, or he can discourageit by a contrary course, but the final result lies with woman herself.
The association does not discourage attempts in various States to secure from their respective Legislatures the submission of an amendment to the voters which shall strike out this word "male" from their own constitutions.
None of these so-called defeats ought to discourage us in the slightest degree.
When you will not learn, or will not amend, you discourage your instructor and reprover.
Let it not be so seldom (if necessary) as to leave them fearless, and so make it uneffectual; and let it not be so frequent as to discourage them, or breed in them a hatred of their parents.
Discourage not each other from instruction or reproof by taking it ill, or by churlish reflections, or by obstinate unreformedness.
He thought that this declaration from the House of Representatives would tend to discourage Democratic societies, by uniting all men of sense against them.
It would be to make peace with sedition, in a way that might tend to encourage rather than, to discourage it in future.
Every effort ought to be used to discountenance what has contributed to foment it; and thus discourage a repetition of like attempts.
I presume a principal reason why a high tax on spirits was admitted, was in order to discourage the use of it among ourselves.
Perhaps it will be as well, if you discourage his coming here so very often.
There is some sense in what he says about the girls however; and if he is disposed to make them any amends, I shall not be the person to discourage him.
They discourage the idea of a loan from them, or even from France.
I made no reply to this, for I did not desire to discourage their stopping payment, which I considered as cutting the throat of the public credit, and a means of adding fresh exasperation against them with the neighboring nations.
Her numbers, too, instead of increasing from increased subsistence, are continually diminishing from growing luxury, and the increasing difficulties of maintaining families, which of course discourage early marriages.
This being the case, we can hardly say anything todiscourage those who gather sea-side objects merely for the purpose of making a collection of pretty and interesting things to be observed and admired.
We do not wish to discourage anyone who has the slightest desire to start a marine aquarium.
Their object appeared to be threefold, apart from the ultimate aim to discourage the Americans and convince the German people that the United States was a poor antagonist.
I am thankful the Wisconsin Library Commission has taken up this work systematically and is doing all it can to discourage such foolish waste of money.
One does not wonder that the department-store proprietors discourage the C.
For, discourage it as they may and do, the department-store owners of New York never have been able to wean milady from the joys of this method of shopping.
In a recent suit it has been claimed that these instruments discourage education in music.
That it will discourage invention, but I would like to take up this bill first; I would like to take it a little out of set up in my preamble.
These reverses of fortune were not sufficient to discourage the ardour of the inhabitants of Buenos Aires.
True to her policy to discourage any attempt at authority on the part of the colonists, Spain had continued strenuously to refuse to appoint any but Spaniards to the highest posts.
It was the invariable policy of the Roman ecclesiastics to discourage the use of the Runic characters, because they were of pagan origin, and had been much connected with idolatrous superstitions.
He thought once of prompting a petition to the legislature, to discourage all such importations in future.
They, who were to settle there, were to have no concern in the Slave Trade, but to discourage it as much as possible.
His parents, however, were desirous of seeing him rich rather than famous, and did all in their power to discourage him from making choice of a vocation which they considered but little better than vagabondage.
When he took the matter in hand there was much to discourage any one not possessed of the traits of constancy of purpose and perseverance peculiar to Mr. Longworth.
I make it a point to discourage all who come to me from entering the business, and am only conquered when I feel sure that, if I decline, they will be driven to other studios.
Let nothing discourage you in your quest for knowledge.
But as I did not discourage the idea the invitation was sent, and before night Avis was with us, filling the house with melody.
We rejoiced in our hearts to find that their advanced civilization left abundant room for the development of the tender passion, and that it also seemed not to discourage a plain and sensible exhibition of it.
Pen, and I confess the very thoughts of what our goods will come to when we have them do discourage me in going any further in the adventure.
A man who goes prospecting around the Kansas prairies doesn't discourage the poor cuss he pities; he tries to encourage the wretch to hold on to land he wouldn't have himself.
Don't try to discourage me, Thaine," she looked up with shining eyes.
No amount of liberality of sentiment can ever induce a thoughtful man to discourage the formation of opinion on all matters of importance.
Nevertheless, this did not in the least discourage me, but my assurance, that God in His own time and in His own way would give the means, increased more and more.
Such seasons try my faith and patience; but, by the grace of God, they do not discourage me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discourage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
