Every angry threat, every sullen hour, each case of insubordination, every strike, every widespread dissatisfaction, means economic waste.

And thus by the gay humour and active friendship of sir William Twyford, an affair was happily terminated, which, from the timidity and gentleness of our hero, might otherwise have lingered several months to the mutual dissatisfaction of both parties.

Her lovely features wore an expression of extreme dissatisfaction.

In all his work we have the impression of this intense loyalty to his art; we have the impression also of a profound dissatisfaction that the deed falls so far short of the splendid dream.

His message was received in America with universal dissatisfaction.

Without this, there is perpetual dissatisfaction and chronic failure.

Maggie represents the restless spirit of the nineteenth century, intense dissatisfaction with self, and a profoundly human passion for something higher and diviner.

An' he did have it, too; an' they all come, every mother's son of 'emfrom a to izzardeven to them that has expressed secret dissatisfactions; which they was all welcome, though it does seem to me thet, ef I 'd been in their places, I'd 'a' hardly had the face to come an' talk, too.

To the Fatimite caliph of that country the progress of the crusading arms had thus far brought with it but little dissatisfaction.

The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.

" "Oh, it is very true," says Manuel, "that all my life henceforward will be a wearying business because of long desires for Suskind's love and Suskind's lips and the grave beauty of her youth, and for all the high-hearted dissatisfactions of youth.

But it is extraordinary how much of that comment is made in a tone of hopeless dissatisfaction, how rarely it is associated with any will to change a state of affairs that so largely stultifies our national purpose.

But the intelligence was received in every part of the Colonies with an indignant dissatisfaction, which astonished even their own agents in England.

Each step seemed weighted with thought, or, at least, heavy with inner dissatisfaction.

When he indulges in doubt and sarcasm, and speaks contemptuously of things in general, he does it, partly, no doubt, out of actual dissatisfaction, but more perhaps than he suspects, out of a fear of being thought weak and sensitivewhich is a blind that the best men very commonly practise.

He crossed the corridor, paused irresolutely at the stairhead, then went on toward his own rooms, his head bent, his face expressing the liveliest dissatisfaction: an expression which deepened to disgust when, on opening his door, he perceived Tellier awaiting him within.

The two senior engineers were not leaving the Wekusko because of mere dissatisfaction with the work and country.

And, as it happened, the marriages had both been a subject of parental dissatisfaction.

As to René, his is the vain sentimentality parading its own impotency for higher feelings, a virtual boasting of want of soul,the sickly dissatisfaction of Werther, without his passion for an excuse.

Giving little else, however, a singular dissatisfaction obtained with the traders, and, being accompanied with a reluctance to make further advances, at last touched the gentle stoicism of the proprietors themselves.

The Government of Russia has never disputed these positions nor manifested the slightest dissatisfaction at their having been taken.

A grimy-faced janitor looked in, wearing an expression of surly dissatisfaction.

When will fathers learn that sons are more frequently like their mothers, and daughters like their fathers, than otherwise? The temporary dissatisfaction of your father is not so sad to contemplate as your own lifelong disappointment if you accede to his wishes in this matter.

" Myndert heard this declaration in visible dissatisfaction.

He must have been pleased with the exercise of his almost military command, and to witness how effectually order and industry, and excited and pleased attention, had taken the place of listless idleness and mutual dissatisfaction.