"Disappointments derange, and overcome, vulgar minds.

After looking at these originals and casts, and remembering those other Michelangelo sculptures elsewhere in Florencethe tombs of the Medici, the Brutus and the smaller Davidturn to the bronze head over the cast of Moses and reflect upon the author of it all: the profoundly sorrowful eyes behind which so much power and ambition and disappointment dwelt.

But it was not for Wallula; it was for the white girl,the Major Molly who, in breaking her promise to Wallula, had brought suffering upon her; for on Wallula's face the mother could see by this time the shadow of disappointment gathering.

While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts and gay with so many brilliant colors, and while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

Night school, also, is not an easy practice-ground for new methods, which was disappointment number two; and then came Father's illness, which has settled once and for all the question of my teaching, and has caged me up to the business of the store, whether I would or no.

The hungry family flew like vultures on their prey, and soon made my disappointment publick, by the tumult of their claims, and the splendour of their sorrow.

There is an earnestness of purpose among English women that is very encouraging under the prolonged disappointments reformers inevitably suffer.

A feeling of snugness comes over you on entering; small passages, closed doors, and an amplitude of curtainsthere are curtains at every door in the churchinduce a sensation of coziness; but when you get within, a sort of bewildering disappointment supervenes.

I must not let a first disappointment control my reason.

From that point, he went on with an account of his continued care for the child, of his incessant search for clews to the lad's identity, of his final success, of Ralph's unaccountable disappearance, and of his own regret and disappointment thereat.