21 Metaphors for disappointments

But to Marie Antoinette any disappointment of that kind was a very trifling matter.

Many disappointments have come his way, more from his own mounted troops than from any others; but we have felt that his tactics and strategy were never wrong.

I will not say that Johnny's disappointment was not some consolation to Dotty, who lay on the sofa in the parlor with her eyes bandaged, while the wedding ceremony was performed.

His disappointment finally became the topic of general conversation.

The only disappointment here, as far as I can make out, is the very few head of black-game.

The first pleasant disappointment which came to Tom, after reaching the fine residence and receiving the cordial welcome of the family, was the discovery that G. Field Catherwood was not present, and would not form one of the little party.

The greatest disappointment of the whole affair is Jack's, who wonders why it is that he and his father have no more afternoon acrobatics such as they had in the play-room that day, but until he is a good many years older his father cannot tell him, for the boy could not in the present stage of his intellectual development understand him if he tried.

The one great disappointment of Harrison Cressy's career was the fact that he had no son, or had had one for such a brief space of hours that he scarcely counted except as a pathetic might-have-been And even as Phil had said, so he would have wanted his son to behave.

Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning admission money is worse.

" "Gertrude, we can now retire to our cabin," observed Mrs Wyllys, with an air of cold displeasure, in which disappointment was a good deal mingled with resentment at the trifling of which she believed herself the subject.

This disappointment was a severe trial of their patience; but they consoled themselves with reflecting that "good in some shape might arise out of the seeming evil.

She used to say, "Expecting disappointments is the only form of hope with which I am familiar."

Blank disappointment was the result.

Disappointments of that sort were 'the fortunes of war' or 'all for the best' to him.

We shall see that he was not successful in business; and it may be that the disappointments he experienced in this way were in some sort an answer to these ardent prayers to be kept from the spirit of the world.

Disappointment was not their only feeling: they were not without fear.

Disappointment became downright wrath when he heard that his son's prospective bride had been forthwith married to another boy.

Her heart is young; and disappointment is the sorrow of the young.

Yet some great disappointment must have been his lot, for a lampoon which he wrote a short time afterwards is filled with the bitterest satire upon the prince whose praises he had sung so beautifully.

From the more luxuriant and verdant appearance of the trees and grass than the country hereabout assumed last year, when the water was abundant, we had felt assured of finding it and therefore our disappointment was the greater.

" "The disappointment of the King," John Copeland considered, "is a smaller evil than allowing all of us to be butchered.

21 Metaphors for  disappointments