The other day, speaking superficially and uncharitably, I said of a woman, whom I knew but slightly, "She disappoints me utterly.

But still the hurt he yet received was slight; For, whilst the champion with redoubled might Strikes home the javelin, his retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Of his Odes, that to Fancy, written when he was very young, is one that least disappoints us by a want of poetic feeling.

You may read in a newspaper of a brilliant speech made before the Chamber of Commerce by a leading business man, which will serve as an illustration to support your affirmative position; or you may attend a banquet where a prominent business man disappoints his audience with a wretched speech.

who rather disappoints me.

How she often disappoints Whom she sacredly anoints, With what wisdom she will hide him, Never minding what betide him Though his genius sob with slighting and his pride may not forget!

Hallam, placid, kindly, gentlethe prince of book-wormsmoved quickly through the rooms, pausing to raise a glance to the ceilingcopied from one of the side aisles of Henry VII.'s Chapelbut the fretwork is gilt, and there is petitesse about the Gothic which disappoints all good judges.

" "Dear mother, you know what is best for me; but often, when I am interested in what is said, and ask questions, people tell me I will understand it when I am a little older; and when I sit down by myself, and they think I have forgotten all about it, I find myself wishing I was "a little older," for it disappoints me so much to leave a story not finished.

The thing that disappoints and drives us to despair is that we cling to what we had at the beginning; and when we no longer trust that, we feel that all is lost.

Time must test this, and time sometimes agreeably disappoints us. 29th.

Becky never disappoints us; she never even makes us tremble.

The man who makes an appointment with his stomach and does not keep it disappoints his best friend.

As she gratifies or disappoints his high-wrought expectations in her speed or in the fight, mid shoals and hurricanes, a character for good or luckless qualities is earned, which are as often in reality due to the skill or ignorance of those who guide her, as to any inherent properties of the fabric.

He disappoints and is weak, and he has no power to create the highest kind of leadership.

Pleasure, when it is a Man's chief Purpose, disappoints it self; and the constant Application to it palls the Faculty of enjoying it, tho' it leaves the Sense of our Inability for that we wish, with a Disrelish of every thing else.

I grew giddy, and all things moved about me from the Distemper of my own Head; for the best of Women was breathless, and gone for ever. 'Now the Doctrine I would, methinks, have you raise from this Account I have given you is, That there is a certain Equanimity in those who are good and just, which runs into their very Sorrow, and disappoints the Force of it.

That those who profess to advance learning sometimes obstruct it, cannot be denied; the continual multiplication of books not only distracts choice, but disappoints inquiry.

A man may do anything that he knows he can do; failure never disappoints him who expects it.

Rome disappoints me much,St. Peter's, perhaps, in especial; Only the Arch of Titus and view from the Lateran please me: This, however, perhaps, is the weather, which truly is horrid.

Rome disappoints me much; I hardly as yet understand, but Rubbishy seems the word that most exactly would suit it.

Rome disappoints me still; but I shrink and adapt myself to it.

It disappoints me.

" "Disappoints you!"

But it disappoints me to feel obliged to follow the multitude like a flock of sheep and to take the dust of those feeble-minded tourists who have preceded me and set the pace.

Like many another hope That disappoints us.