1216 examples of depression in sentences

Nevertheless, I rested my hand a moment upon his head, and then glided it in a semi-professional manner along the line of dorsal elevation, until I came to a deep depression in his backbone, which corresponded exactly with the convexity of the bottle.

There is a considerable depression in the bed of the stream at one point, and the water runs over the rocks quite rapidly, carrying with it such leaves, twigs, steamboats or other objects that may be floating upon its surface.

She was very erratic, and before she left the room she had quite got over her depression.

I thought my news would make her happy, and her depression surprised me.

Something, indeed, had happened to mar their happiness, and the cause of their depression was as follows: Soon after breakfast, when the contents of the post-bag had been distributed as usual, Mugford accosted his two chums, who were strolling up and down the quadrangle.

" Joanna came in to announce the arrival of a visitor whom Evadne had already learned to dread on account of her continual depression.

It was not his fault, he arguedhe had meant to do rightbut gilt-edged securities were as waste, paper in the unprecedented monetary depression which was sweeping stronger men than himself to the verge of ruin.

Their eyes are fixed on the brow of the hill, separated from them by a narrow depression.

The low roof of the farm-house can be seen far back even from the depression, where the lines of blue are now resting a brief, deadly half-hour.

I took deep breaths of it, and the feeling of fatigue and depression which had weighed upon me gradually vanished.

I don't want those drops to get away; I want them to roll into this depression, and I shall very carefully bottle them.

" These quotations are but samples of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of similar statements, showing the immediate connection between privations, exposures, and hardships, and depression of life and abundant disease.

The exploitation of those gigantic forests from which millions of trunks were floated down to the sea annually had now been suspended, the great landowners were deserting the country, and there was silence and depression everywhere.

I could understand his depression, now that he had come back to it.

The singers of his court found in him a brother singer, gathering the old songs of his people to teach them to his children, breaking his renderings from the Latin with simple verse, solacing himself in hours of depression with the music of the Psalms.

I impute it to moral influences, since the chief cause of death is low vitality, marked nervous depression and want of animal spirits, such as the total absence of personal tenderness and sympathy must produce in children.

The stage of depression may go as far as a melancholia, the stage of stimulation as far as mania.

Depression and even melancholia are associated with the fear of not being able to accomplish good work hitherto easy and enjoyed.

Commonly also satirical taunts do owe their seeming piquancy, not to the speaker or his words, but to the subject, and the hearers; the matter conspiring with the bad nature or the vanity of men who love to laugh at any rate, and to be pleased at the expense of other men's repute; conceiting themselves extolled by the depression of their neighbour, and hoping to gain by his loss.

We thought it would not do to pass through the country in this state of depression, without trying to remove the cause.

While Ida was brushing her hair and fighting against the natural fit of depression caused by her introduction to this cheerful household, there came a knock at the door, and she admitted Mrs. Heron.

Up to this moment she had been buoyed up by excitement and the joy and pleasure of her return to the old house; but suddenly there fell a cloud-like depression upon her; she was conscious of an aching void, a lack of something which robbed her heart of all its joy.

If anything her depression grew more perversely morbid the more she was catered to, courted, flattered, and cajoled.

She was sick with trouble and depression, and Avery could find no means of comforting her.

In this state of misery and depression, a new hero arose, in 1361, to vindicate and re-establish the fame and empire of the Moguls.

1216 examples of  depression  in sentences