It would have dispirited the troops to have moved them forward at such a time and rendered more difficult the advance of the baggage.
Shall I compare with it the disaster of the Carthaginians, sustained in a naval battle at the islands Aegates, dispirited by which they gave up Sicily and Sardinia, and thenceforth submitted to become tributary and stipendiary?
The consuls indulged the ardour of the legions, well knowing that the raw troops of the enemy, mixed with veterans dispirited by defeat, would be incapable even of attempting a contest.
Yet the one consul being dispiritedby the battle of the cavalry and his own wound, wished operations to be deferred: the other having his spirits unsubdued, and being therefore the more impetuous, admitted no delay.
By these successive blows the Cherokee were so worn out and dispirited that they were forced to sue for peace, and in midsummer of 1781 a treaty of peace--doubtful though it might be--was negotiated at the Long island of the Holston.
The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
Old men and dull dispirited young ones who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life and health.
All the boats assembling together, we returned considerably crestfallen and dispirited to our tents.
I want to be at 'Tony,' but I am so very low and dispirited I shall make a mess of whatever I touch, and so it is better to abstain.
I have no good news to send of my poor wife, and I am very low and dispirited in consequence.
My men were thoroughly dispirited by the events of Jaffa, and to tell you the truth, I myself absolutely despaired of resistance, and should have left before the French arrived had not your ships come into the bay.
The interminable extent of sand utterly dispirited them, and they came to believe that all that they had heard of Egypt was false, and that they had been deliberately sent there by the directory to die.
There is no doubt, too, that the news that our fleet has been completely destroyed has dispirited the soldiers, who feel that for the present, an any rate, they are completely cut off from France.
A poor dispirited Sinner lies trembling under the Apprehensions of the State he is entring on; and is asked by a grave Attendant how his Holiness does?
The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo, has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair.
Far from being dispirited by this reverse of fortune, that body redoubled its exertions to hasten reinforcements to the army in Canada, and urged the several conventions to collect for its use all the specie they could obtain.
They were dispirited by defeat, without tents, badly armed, and had lost great part of their stores and baggage.
Before he resorted to this dreadful alternative, which his chivalrous heart taught him could result only in the slaughter of men so famished, dispirited and broken, he once more sought an interview with the Emperor.
Blucher had no resource but to throw himself and his diminished and dispirited army into Lubeck.
On the morning of the 17th the dispirited Prince of Moskowa took no steps to find out what his enemy was doing, although he received orders from the Emperor at ten o'clock to occupy Quatre Bras if there was only a rear guard there.
The passes of the Apennines had to be held and Genoa covered with a handful of men dispirited by defeat and half mutinous from want of necessary food.
That heartless and dispirited people, whom Lord Somers had represented about two years before as dead in energy and operation, continued that war to which it was supposed they were unequal in mind, and in means, for nearly thirteen years.
But to his altered eyes the track was no longer a link in the world's girdle; it was only a thin line of dirt and wood and steel, on which a thousand dispirited men had been toiling.
The whole body of Marquesan poetry and music was being suffered to die out with a single dispirited generation.
With a people incurably idle, dispirited by what can only be called endemic pestilence, and inflamed with ill- feeling against their new masters, crime and convict labour are a godsend to the Government.
It was upon one of these occasions that poor Albert was more than usually dispirited and weary, that his father said kindly to him,— “Albert, it does appear to me that we can have no further scruple how we commit this man Gray.
First, we will turn to Albert Seyton, who, with his father, returned from the office of Sir Francis Hartleton, rather dispirited than otherwise at the result of the interview with him.
The warning of Orange seemed to come from a sad and dispirited heart; but for Egmont the world still smiled.
The officers and men were dispirited and crestfallen, and bitterly blamed Gen.
The Fenians were utterly dispirited and completely demoralized, and when their commanders (Gen.
Thus was the German emperourdispirited and weakened; thus were we deprived at once of our allies and our reputation.
He was lame; and as he feigned to be busy in arranging the table, glanced at the letters with a look so keen, and yet so dispirited and hopeless, that Nicholas could hardly bear to watch him.
Yet it was in no dispirited tone that she asked after the respectable poor--there surely must be some employed in small trades, or about the warehouses.
We cannot but be disappointed, though I understand your feeling for Wrapworth, and we are sorry for thedispirited tone about the letter.
That people, who disposed of the highest offices in the government, the command of armies, provinces and kingdoms, were sunk into a herd of dispirited slaves.
The different regiments retired sullenly to their respective quarters, and General Porter, with hisdispirited New York volunteers, marched in disgust to Buffalo.
Disheartened, dispirited now, we waited for the end.
Then, rolling my eyes over my dispirited remnant, I cried-- "Who is of the base blood of slaves to talk of yielding?
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