To my consternation and keen disheartenment he assumed my guilt from the moment the cell door was locked upon him and he had seated himself upon the iron-framed cot to nurse a knee in the locked fingers of his bony hands.
It was in this deepest abyss in the valley of disheartenment that I met a former prison-mate named Kellow; a forger whose time of release from the penitentiary coincided nearly with my own.
But he was still too much the successful detective to allow his disheartenment to be seen by his admiring subordinate.
My performance was a failure, and to complete my disheartenment I reached the station about five minutes after the last eastern train had pulled out.
It was in this period of doubt and disheartenment that I turned to my little daughter with gratitude and a deep sense of the mystery of her coming.
It would be difficult to imagine a more amazing translation--and yet, now that she was back in the midst of it, she gave no sign of the disheartenment she must have felt.
Sick people ofttimes fall into a mood of disheartenment and self-pity which seriously retards their recovery.
Elijah, for example, in a season of disheartenment and despondency, gave it as part of the exceptional burden of his life that he was the only one in the field for God.
