Especially the most pressing among all their wishesthe relief of Potidaeawas in no way advanced; for the Athenians had not found it necessary to relax the blockade of that city, The result of the first year's operations had thus been to disappoint the hopes of the Corinthians and the other ardent instigators of war, while it justified the anticipations both of Pericles and of Archidamus.

" "Well, I hate to disappoint you," replied Graham, waving the bundle of letters, photographs, and drawings in his hand.

" "And I hate to disappoint YOU," answered Telly, quite tartly, "but you might wish to look behind you.

" "Accursed be the tongue which tells me so," said the trembling Macbeth, who felt his last hold of confidence give way; "and let never man in future believe the lying equivocations of witches and juggling spirits, who deceive us in words which have double senses, and while they keep their promise literally, disappoint our hopes with a different meaning.

It is here that the clever nurse appears,she will not bring in the peccant article; but, not to disappoint the patient, she will whip up something else in a few minutes.

"To tell the truth, I didn't want to disappoint either of you boys this afternoon, but I didn't believe the wind was quiet enough for boating on the river.

He knew the importance of his own writings to mankind, and lest he might by a roughness and barbarity of style, too frequent among men of great learning, disappoint his own intentions, and make his labours less useful, he did not neglect the politer arts of eloquence and poetry.

"Sorry to disappoint you, Dago.

It would be my business to disappoint him; and I assumed an air of confidence that soon shook off my companion.

But it seemed that the patient was fated to disappoint the predictions of his friend as well as those of the surgeons at Mercy Hospital.

If she gets to know you and sets her heart on having you, and then you go and disappoint herI shall be the sufferer," explained Fielding, with another cut at the grass in front of him.

Even such a familiarity, worthy of Jonathan, our national hero, in a prince's palace, or "stumping" as he boasts to have done, "up the Vatican stairs, into the Pope's presence, in my old boots," I felt here; it looks really well enough, I felt, and was inclined, as you suggested, to give my approbation as to the one object in the world that would not disappoint.

The beauty of the island, though seen under the most unfavorable circumstances, did not disappoint my expectations.

The interior of the building does not disappoint the promise of the outside.

Francesco, though unwilling to part with his painter in ordinary, thought it unadvisable to disappoint the Pope.

The question for you, my dear Lord, isWill you disappoint them?"

They disappoint as they are, for the satire is too apparent, and we do not see these characters in action, where their follies would obtain for them a more living interest.

CONN They're decent enough fellows, as I said, and I'll be sorry to disappoint them.

I know that your offer is kindly, that it comes from a generous soul, but however much it may disappoint you I must decline it.

It won't do to disappoint the children.

He had taken his case to God, he had trusted all to Him, and Nehemiah did not want a Providence to watch; the God in whom he had put his confidence did not disappoint him. 'Let me go that I may rebuild Jerusalem,' says the cup-bearer; and the great Persian king does not refuse his request, but (prompted, it may be, by the queen who was sitting by him) he asks: 'For how long shall thy journey be?

I suppose you’d like to have me fight the will; but I’m going to disappoint you.”

Assumptions as to what I should do under given conditions had always irritated me, and accounted, in a large measure, for my proneness to surprise and disappoint people.

" "I would not have bought it, Mademoiselle, if I had known that I should disappoint aa lady by doing so," I was on the point of saying, "if I had known that I should disappoint you by so doing," but hesitated, and checked myself in time.

" "I would not have bought it, Mademoiselle, if I had known that I should disappoint aa lady by doing so," I was on the point of saying, "if I had known that I should disappoint you by so doing," but hesitated, and checked myself in time.