Tradition whispers that these long years of single life were the result of a disappointing love affair with Jane Carleton, a pretty cousin, when both he and she were young.

I may say here, though it will probably be disappointing to those who form a sentimental idea of the capabilities of children, that it did not occur to me either, in these early days, to make any inquiry about my mother.

"And isn't it disappointing?

She might be a disappointing character, but he knew well that she was full of love; he remembered her eyes when, nearly a year ago, up in the mist and sweetness of April on the Unakas, she had told him of the baby sister and the other little ones.

The President's visit to the United States had been disappointing to the friends of a League in that he had failed to rally to the support of the Covenant an overwhelming popular sentiment in its favor which the opposition in the Senate could not resist.

"The price he asked is no doubt a bit above its proper value; but it's accommodation land, and it would be disappointing if it slipped through our fingers.

But time pressed; and, indeed, collecting plants in the wet season is a difficult and disappointing work.

The result was disappointing, and the chief impression left with Cook seems to have been that over their clothing of native cloth, those present wore old and ragged mats; those of the king being the raggedest, and "might have served his great-grandfather on some such like occasion.

This was most disappointing to Mary, who expected her lover to agree with her upon every point; and if he had been at Fellside the difference of opinion might have given rise to their first quarrel.

The reception of the story at first was disappointing, and we find the authoress telling her publisher that "she does not want to see any newspaper articles."

Now the disappointing thing about our trip was that we didn't encounter any Uhlans.

Nothing accomplished, the commission returned and made its disappointing report.

"How disappointing!" "Not from my point of view," he said.

"Why do you say that?" "Because lions always are disappointing when they're hunted down.

It is easy to understand why the enemy nations find England so disappointing and unsatisfying to be at war with.

A disappointing day: the weather had cleared, the night was fine though cold, temperature well below zero with a keen S.W. breeze.

It is disappointing to find the ice so reluctant to hold; at the same time one supposes that the cooling of the water is proceeding and therefore that each day makes it easier for the ice to formthe sun seems to have lost all power, but I imagine its rays still tend to warm the surface water about the noon hours.

The Queen Elizabeth was disappointing so far as wounds went.

This museum was intended to elevate the intelligence of her people, but the result was quite disappointing to the Queen.

Altho they from the first did much to make the accounts of the railroads intelligible, something to make the local rates reasonable and subject to rule, and much to educate public sentiment, on the whole their results have been disappointing.

For the many contestants who set out to conquer the world the experience has been disappointing and on the whole disastrous.

“I fear it’s going to be disappointing.

I gave him enough trouble in his life without disappointing him in his grave.

Just as they were starting, Frau Steinhart whispered to Robert Allitsen: "It is a little disappointing to me, Herr Allitsen.

The genius at school is usually a disappointing figure, for, as a rule, one must be commonplace to be a successful boy.