Here, therefore, we have a massive series of causes and effects, all connected with the great emergence of the land, which throw a broad light on the change in the face of the earth.
We shall find it useful sometimes at least in confirming our conclusions as to the ancestry of a particular group.
Still, as the winter wore on, news from the armies became gloomier and gloomier, and each successive bulletin bore more dispiriting accounts of discontent and privation, sickness and death.
The results of the battle of Shiloh--while they gave fresh cause for national pride--were dispiritingand saddening.
Whatever may have been the causes of this first failure, and to whomsoever its responsibility may attach, it is certain that its results were of a very dispiriting and deteriorating character.
The most dispiriting intelligence was coming in from Afghanistan.
There must be a very dispiriting influence prevailing here; the keeper refused to take any money, the solitary Italian we have seen so affected.
In the last dispiriting days of 1775, when the terms of his men had expired, he offered to give them his month's pay if they would remain a month longer.
I wasted so much time praying that the roof would fall in on these dispiriting flunkies that I had but little left to bestow upon palace and pictures.
After dinner, potter on the Boulevards under the dispiriting gloom of petroleum; go home and read a book.
It was so utterly dispiriting to see men positively turning away from the means of obtaining good crops, and then crying out that they were ruined.
But the most dispiriting part of the commencement was the length of time to wait before a crop came.
His messenger had just returned from Carrig-na-curra with very dispiriting tidings of Herbert O'Donoghue.
The whole thing was so amazing, and so utterly bewildering, that at times he felt, as he paced that narrow, dispiriting cell, that he must go mad.
Through the little window the grey, dispiriting light grew brighter as the dawn spread.
He made no reply, and I too was silent, for the talk had taken a dispiriting turn, yet I knew not how to give it a more agreeable character.
The dread of some impending calamity was so strong and dispiriting that I tried to drive it away by inviting a real sorrow-- tried to dispel the conception of a terrible future by substituting the memory of a painful past.
The spectacle of a pair of lovers equally pale and proud alighting at her door was rather dispiriting to Lady Sarah Maitland, but she did not lose heart.
Twilight had come on with its dispiriting shadows, and Boone lighted a lamp, and since the night was cool he had also kindled a few logs on the hearth.
The rain poured down as rain never pours in England; and under these very dispiriting circumstances I began my travels over the North American continent.
If the place was bleak and dreary in the daytime, what words will describe itsdispiriting influence at night?
As he surveyed the dispiriting prospect from his office window, on that late February afternoon, he was near to resigning his position, and with it all further pretension to political prominence.
Exhausted at last, and seeing no end to the puzzle, oppressed more and more by a certain dispiriting influence that seemed to ooze from these walls, I sat down upon a stone and began to weep.
The monuments of the middle ages have a melancholy, but not a dispiriting look; we feel, on looking at them, the vigour and sincerity of the sentiment that inspired their builders.
A dispiritinglassitude does indeed seize and oppress our hearts at the very sight of these disagreeable-looking houses; the most cheerful are the hospitals.
Altogether a dismal and dispiriting day, several members of my history class evincing great stupidity during the lesson periods.
The discomfort of not being warm enough and the dispiritingeffect of the grim sky and gloomy interior of the amphitheater was manifest in a sort of general impression of melancholy and apprehension.
Of the dreary and tedious winter between, which was intenselydispiriting and appeared interminable, the less I say the better.
Solitude was bad enough, and doubly dispiriting after the society of so lively a companion, but the sense of having been deceived with her eyes open was worse than all.
Hence, when we had rested two days to recruit in the sunlight after the dispiriting gloom of the primeval forest, we held on our way, passing many native villages, the inhabitants of each showing marked friendliness towards our Dagombas.
In the dull dispiritinggloom I sat hour after hour on the stone bench encrusted with the dirt of years, calmly reflecting upon the bright, happy life I had been, alas!
It was truly a toilsome, dispiriting march, as in single file we pushed our way forward into the interior, and I confess I soon began to tire of the monotony of the terrible gloom.
Still, I was determined to hold out until the last, although not a single ray of hope glimmered through the dispiriting gloom.
But its sight told me nothing, for it was the reflected image of a scene I had never before gazed upon, a scene so unutterably dismal and dispiriting that I doubted whether any clue could there be found.
Thus through many dreary hours we pressed forward in the dull, dispiriting gloom.
Yes, it is a comfort to me, in the midst of so many dispiriting European signs, that France has come so far through her struggle.
The gray skies and recurring rain are peculiarly dispiriting to me, and one seems to feel their influence all the more for the wide, beautiful view of field and hill which they sadden and half conceal.
