But Celindaja paid no heed to all that cavalcade; Her lips were parched, her throat was dry, her heart was sore dismayed.

He was distinctly dismayed when a dozen or more of the dark-faced watchers wandered slowly off after Mr. Saunders.

The investigators were frankly dismayed at the extent and complexity of the situation.

She knew, inwardly dismayed, that her eyes were wide, her color high, and her whole expression one of childish expectancy.

Like herself he had been momentarily dismayed it might be, but he had taken his place among her friends, not even asking to be foremost, and remembering this, she resolutely expelled any lingering doubt of him.

Polly at first was dismayed.

But the severity of his father did not dismay the young rancher.

" "At the time," Esmo began, "when material science had gained a decided ascendant, and enforced the recognition of its methods as the only ones whereby certain knowledge and legitimate belief could be attained, those who clung most earnestly to convictions not acquired or favoured by scientific logic were sorely dismayed.

But do not let us get unreasonably dismayed, even about these appalling figures.

She was so utterly dismayed that he began to look stern in anticipation of an appeal to him to avert this; an appeal which he had often had to refuse without ever having succeeded in persuading a woman that it was futile, or convincing her that it was immoral.

Thereafter at other windows he wilfully dismayed his brother by pretending to consider the purchase of objects in no sense desirable to any one, such as boots, parasols, manicure sets, groceries, hardware.

But, while Will and Percy held the gunwale of their boat close to that of the half-sunken one, the girls carefully crawled out and soon, rather wet, considerably dismayed, but, withal, calmer than might have been expected, the quartette was safe in the larger craft.

She would not see, but it was plain that she was cruelly dismayed, that it cost her an effort to rise to the topping bid: "Thirty-five hundred guineas!"

They were doubly dismayed now, because they not only had lost their leader, but were themselves lost in some part of the country where they knew neither the landmarks nor the points of the compass.

I was externally indifferent and internally dismayed.

Be strong and of a good courage; neither be thou dismayed.'

Within a fortnight that little coffee-room of theirs had been crowded with English soldiers in retreat; then with Germansstern, on edge, sure of being in Paris in a few days; then with the same Germans falling back, a trifle dismayed but in good order, and then the pursuing French.

The finest outer integument had never been worn from his nerves, so that nothing of the pandemonium distressed; but what his oriental training called the illusion of it allreally dismayed.

The emperor, who had no knowledge of affairs, and to whom Yen-ta had been represented as a petty bandit, was utterly dismayed and ready to do whatever Yen-ta asked; in the end he was dissuaded from this, and an agreement was arrived at with Yen-ta for state-controlled markets to be set up along the frontier, where the Mongols could dispose of their goods against Chinese goods on very favourable terms.