1 He hoped that with intelligent assistance I should meet with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XXIV 2 The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 3 But that did not discourage me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM 4 Some people contended that the reason Mademoiselle Reisz always chose apartments up under the roof was to discourage the approach of beggars, peddlars and callers.
5 Mr. Pontellier himself had no particular leaning toward horseracing, and was even rather inclined to discourage it as a pastime, especially when he considered the fate of that blue-grass farm in Kentucky.
6 I wouldn't discourage either of you," said St. Clare, "but I rather think, Tom, you'd better get me to write your letter for you.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 7 Perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very often.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 26 8 They discourage one with existence.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 9 On the other hand, if the rent was too high, or if the land deteriorated, the result was to discourage and check the efforts of the black peasantry.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 10 Every evening when he called at her house, weary and discouraged, she was tireless in her tactful, helpful suggestions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLI 11 There was that about his grim one-eyed face which discouraged curiosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 12 They seemed to have no pasts or futures, and they politely discouraged Scarlett when, to make conversation, she asked what or where they were before they came to New Orleans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLVIII 13 And when Ashley came home, sick, discouraged, without a home, without a cent in his pockets, she took him in like a sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIX 14 He was fat and lazy and discouraged, and bad luck had become a habit with him.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV 15 When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV