This intelligence dismayed my people, who refused to proceed in the enterprize, and demanded to go back to Marseilles for another ship and more men.

Two days later there occurred an irruption of dismaying young men with casual squares of paper in their pockets, upon which they scratched brief notes.

The Romans, observing to each other with exultation that this was the shout of their countrymen, and that aid was at hand, took the initiative, and from their watch-guards and outposts dismayed the enemy.

The large numbers of the Franks who covered the ground for some distance dismayed the Britons, and many of them fled, seeking where they might hide themselves.

At the same time the empire was exposed to the incursions of the Magyars or Hungarians, whose wholesale depredations and cruelties so dismayed the child-king that he concluded a treaty of peace with the invaders and consented to pay them a ten-years' tribute.

This boasting did not in the least dismay the Cid, who fought so bravely that he defeated Martin Gonzalez, and won such plaudits that the jealousy of the Castilian knights was further excited.

Such a force as this new one of Carleton's was expected to dismay the rebel colonies.

Vexed by the darkness, from the piny gulf Ascending, nearer howls the famished wolf, [s9] While thro' the stillness scatters wild dismay Her babe's small cry, that leads him to his prey.

F. This youth and Richard think me easily won; But Marian rather will embrace The bony carcase of dismaying death, Than prove unchaste to noble Fauconbridge.

So many purchases were made that afternoon, that the young storekeepers perceived with dismay the very visible decrease in their supplies.

This last suit formed no exception to the others, and Charlie surveyed with dismay its ample dimensions as it hung from the back of the chair.

But the tragic risk was one to dismay experiment.

But now the agitations of the Amis des Noirs at Paris dismayed all the white islanders, while on the other hand the National Assembly's "Declaration of the Rights of Man," together with its decrees granting political equality in somewhat ambiguous form to free persons of color, prompted risings in 1791 among the colored freemen in the northern part of the colony and among the slaves in the center and south.

Barbara, Roger, Algy, a hundred confused ideas of pain and dismay jostle each other in my head.

Scarcely had the letter laid an instant on the white leather than Frau Gensfleisch, turning round, saw with dismay the mischief that was done;a

* "'In those straits is desolation, And darkness and dismay Venice, no more a nation, Has owned the stranger's sway.'

To overwhelm with defeat and dismay the party to which his enemy belonged, was not enoughany common man could invent so plain a course as that.

his horse suddenly fails in his speed, and as she anxiously turns her head she perceives with dismay the hapless position of her lover; each of the more fortunate leaders, eager with anticipated triumph, bending his head on his horse's mane, shouts at the top of his voice, "I come, my Peri; I'm your lover."

With what dismay one reads of the wonderful fellows in fashionable novels, who can easily dash off a brilliant essay in a single night!

Mrs. Waters stood watching until his steps died away in the distance, and then, returning to the garden, took up the spade and stood regarding with some dismay the mountainous result of his industry.

That alarm dismayed the Romans, and the wound of the consul, and the danger to his life, warded off by the interposition of his son, then just arriving at the age of puberty, augmented their fears.

They saw with dismay the spreading settlements of the whites.

" "Well, I should say so!" cried Chet, to whom the description of the queer old house, while dismaying his sister, had appealed immensely.

Charles, who, attended by his troop of pensioners, watched the fortune of the field, beheld with dismay the slaughter of his guards; [Footnote 1: The standard was nevertheless recovered by the daring or the address of a Captain Smith, whom the king made a banneret in the field.

" "My dear, it will take you hours to read through all this," said Avery, surveying with dismay the task which the Vicar had set his small daughter.