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Example sentences for "great disappointment"

  • It is a great disappointment; last night we thought ourselves out of the wood with all our troubles behind us, and to-night matters seem worse than ever.

  • He has been a great disappointment,' Cherry-Garrard wrote, 'even James Pigg has survived him.

  • My dear Mrs. Jameson, it is a great disappointment to me that I cannot welcome you to my American home, and be to you that pleasant thing, an old friend in a foreign land.

  • Katharine Sedgwick writes in great disappointment at your not being in Italy this winter, and so does her niece, my dear little Kate.

  • Yes; it would have been a great disappointment to him had you refused his invitation.

  • It would be a great disappointment to Lancy if anything should happen to prevent her going; so we must unite our efforts and carry the day, in spite of this little freak of Dexie's.

  • Went to Boston for a month, as some solace for my great disappointment.

  • Great disappointment; but it is wiser to wait, as summer is bad for a young baby to begin here.

  • It was a great disappointment to Louisa that she could not be with her sister at this time; but her health was not equal to the voyage, and she felt that May had most loving and sufficient care.

  • A great disappointment; but I've learned to wait.

  • The prince will be present, and it would be a great disappointment to the household to be deprived of the sight.

  • Should this prove to be the case, it would be a great disappointment to him, as well as to his soldiery, since it would deprive him of victory, and the men of the plunder they expected to obtain.

  • It would also be a great disappointment to Sir John and myself," observed Lady Webb.

  • He thought that he would be far from welcome, being obliged to cause her a great disappointment.

  • Running up to the loft, she exclaimed in great disappointment: "Oh grandfather, my bed is gone.

  • The calling off of the deal was a great disappointment to me at the time, and yet, as things have turned out, I am satisfied that everything happened for the best after all.

  • Our refusal to defy the law and play ball anyhow was a great disappointment both to the American contingent and to the natives, they having been looking forward to the game for weeks with most pleasant anticipations.

  • This is a great disappointment, as it was my intention to run it down, in the hope that it would take me into South Australia.

  • This was a great disappointment to me, as I should like to have seen the country myself to have connected it with my farthest north-west point on my first journey.

  • It is a great disappointment to be so near, and yet through want of water to be unable to attain the desired end.

  • A few drops of rain have fallen during the night, but this morning it seems to be breaking up again, which is a great disappointment.

  • The Tories have had a great disappointment in the Finsbury election, which they fancied Pownall was sure of carrying the first day, but Tommy Duncombe beat him hollow the second.

  • It was certainly a great triumph to the Conservative cause, and a great disappointment to the violent Whigs, and still more to the Radicals.

  • There had been some barley and wheat together, but, to my great disappointment, I found afterwards that the rats had eaten or spoiled it all.

  • And I knew that Aunt Philippa was rather ambitious for her children, and it had been a great disappointment to her that Sara had refused a young baronet.

  • I had called up at Gladwyn a few days after we had dined there, but, to my great disappointment, I did not see Miss Hamilton.

  • It would be a great disappointment if Bill did not go on.

  • In great disappointment and a little shamefacedly he made his appearance at the breakfast-table.

  • We found Ponds Bay that paradise of the old whalers so full of ice that we were unable to visit the natives, which was a great disappointment to us all.

  • The Sound being frozen over was a great disappointment to me as it prevented our going up Barrow Strait, or visiting Beechy Island, where Sir John Franklin spent his last winter.

  • This was a great disappointment to me, as I had assisted in killing every whale we had taken on board.

  • The "Ma-Robert," which had promised so well at first, now turned out a great disappointment.

  • This, though a great disappointment, was not altogether a surprise.


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