Aged and often very ill and suffering, longing for quiet and literature, he braced his frail body and unhappy soul to the fret and weariness and disillusioning of politics.
The shame of Custozza and Lissa lay heavy on the nation, and the disillusioning had shaken faith in men and institutions.
At the same time, outside Italy they were to depreciate the Pope with equal vehemency, that when the inevitable disillusioning in Pius came, they could put in a claim to foresight.
This effort to open Rochester University to women, on top of a very full and worrisome year, was so taxing and so disillusioning that she became seriously ill.
The halo of romance that once wreathed his classic brow had faded with the painful disillusioning which followed a thrashing his wife had given him.
There is no more disillusioning place in the world to land in by daytime.
It was the tolerant Gabriella who spoke--the Gabriella of disillusioning experience and a clear vision of life--not the impassioned idealist of the 'nineties.
One blissful month ago she and George had been married, and now, on the reluctant return from a camp in the Adirondacks, they were confronting the disillusioning actuality of the New York streets at eight o'clock in the morning.
Flushed and smiling, with her red mouth gurgling delightedly, and a white wool lamb clasped in her arms, the adorable child was certainly worth any seesaw of destiny, any disillusioning experience of marriage.
That he should joke about his broken promise before Florrie amazed Gabriella even after her disillusioning experience with him.
After so much and such disillusioning experience with it, he still had a romantic feeling about the human body; a sense that finer things dwelt in it than could be explained by anatomy.
There were other clothes in her trunk that she needed very much, and she seemed no nearer a place to stay than when she arrived in the rain, on that first disillusioning morning.
Illusion; but, in all things I shall prevent you, Chrysis, from disillusioning me.
Now, it would seem on the contrary that they devote all their efforts to disillusioning us.
She was like no phase of the many phases in which he had known her; she was a Rachael who had never known the sordid, the disillusioning side of life.
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