He remembered his own delight three months before, even with the haunting thoughts of his mother's reproaches to dampen his ardor, and he was soon dazzling the neophyte with the wonders that were just about to begin.

Wet (verb), moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate, drench Whim, caprice, vagary, fancy, freak, whimsey, crotchet.

She decided not to dampen the children's good spirits that evening with the discouraging news in the letter.

One of these, as if to dampen such great enthusiasm a little, asked him where he had studied the first years of Latin.

If she had found him drooping, despairing, utterly cast down,no hinderance then to a full utterance of the heroic purpose which death alone could dampen or defeat!

His guests were evidently accustomed to his rather non-participating attitude, for it did not seem in any degree to dampen their spirits.

He felt the slow dampening of his own joy, the deadening clutch of yesterday at his heart.

I understand considerate and generous youth, your wish to dampen hopes that may possibly be yet thwarted, but I have too long, and too often, trusted this dangerous element, not to know that he who has the wind can speak, or not, as he pleases.

He will cheerfully put his hand down into his pocket and pay the bill for some impractical scheme, rather than dampen the ardor of an enthusiastic worker.

But to set out for a foreign land with no backing whatever in the hope of accomplishing that which no American salesman had ever been able to accomplish, and to finance the undertaking out of his own pocket on a sum less than he would have expected for cigarette moneywell, it was an enterprise to test a fellow's courage and to dampen the most youthful optimism.

However, I had the authority to go to press with quotes throwing into question the viability of luxury tourism in a land where the season lasts little over four months slightly dampening the gushing tone of the article.

The postilion covered the worn-out lace of his shabby livery with a heavy cloak, which he flung over his shoulder to keep out the dampening air, gave a series of wild flourishes with his whip, broke into guttural explosions of voice to urge along his horses, and on we went full-gallop.

We agreed that it would be amusing to go up with the children, stay a little while to be sure that they could adapt themselves, and then leave; for if there is anything dampening to the ardour of children at play it is a group of elders with minds divided between admiration and correction, punctuating unwise remarks upon beauty and cleverness with "Maud, you are overheated."

For Suskind would probably weep, and exact promises of eternal fidelity, and otherwise dampen the ardor with which I look toward to-morrow and the winning of the wealthy Count of Arnaye's lovely daughter.

No one appreciated them, but, far from dampening her enthusiasm, it afforded her a sort of bitter joy, that considerably increased her already large number of available themes.

But we never permitted any question of priority to dampen our interest in the thing.

" In the next paragraph he admits, however, that "no doubt the way in which we think about our emotions reacts on the emotions themselves, dampening or inflaming them, as the case may be;" and in this admission he really concedes the whole matter.

Now the ideas which the Greeks had about their women could not but dampen any elevated feelings of love that might otherwise have sprung up in them.

" This view of the matter was rather dampening to Aunt Barbara's zeal; but trusting that Providence would interfere in her behalf, she still insisted that she should go, and again expressed a wish that Sophia would go with her.

It took considerable time to remove the tent from its position, for much care was necessary to prevent its dampening the tent furniture beneath.

This solution of the difficulty lifted a dampening burden from Rod's heart, and when the little party began its descent into the wilderness regions under the mountain the city lad carried the rifle, for Wabi insisted that he have the first "turn.

I did not like telling the whole truth about it for fear it might dampen their spirits, but being pressed for an opinion I told them in plain words that it would at least be another month before their journey would be ended.

That was not the way to get work out of a subordinatethis patronizing of possible energy and enthusiasm, this cold dampening of ardor, as though ardor in itself were a reproach and zeal required reproof.

But we were so delighted with our new accommodations in prospect that we left the hotel in a state of exhilaration that nothing could dampen.

One uncongenial person in the partyone man who sneers at sentiment, one woman whose point of view is materialcan ruin the loveliest journey and dampen one's heavenliest enthusiasm.