1 For which reason, and because they thought that to such persons the mere ignominy of defeat was in itself punishment enough, they would not dishearten their generals by inflicting on them any heavier penalty.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI. 2 She was chilled and disheartened and desperate.
3 But the snow and the bitter weather had disheartened them all.
4 His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he has sunk back, disheartened, into the sea.
5 She seemed disheartened, and had nothing to say.
6 The men were disheartened and began to mutter.
7 He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him.
8 Promises were still more liberally distributed than money by this active agent; and, in fine, nothing was left undone that could determine the wavering, or animate the disheartened.
9 She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions.
10 He could hardly ever get out, poor man, to enjoy anything, and that disheartened me from doing several things that Sir Thomas and I used to talk of.
11 I came away baffled and disheartened.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 12 But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing.
13 Stephen, disheartened suddenly by the dean's firm, dry tone, was silent; and through the silence a distant noise of many boots and confused voices came up the staircase.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 Smoked foundations and the lonesone blackened chimneys, now known as "Sherman's Sentinels," appeared with disheartening frequency.
15 For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.