1769 examples of dismaying in sentences

" Pausing not to see whether the equally overwhelmed old lawyer followed him, the horribly astounded Gospeler burst precipitately from the house in wild dismay, and was presently hurrying past the pauper burial-ground.

The boys were hastily putting on their clothes, when Mugford, who had just thrown aside a dirty collar, gave vent to an exclamation of dismay, which attracted the attention of his two companions.

Needless to say Henshaw soon found out our retreat, and to my dismay appeared there.

To my intense annoyance and dismay I saw him come into the ballroom with all the hateful assurance that was so familiar to me.

" "Professor Trenton coming here in August!" cried Mrs. Everidge in dismay.

The culprit sprang up speechless with dismay, enraged at the loss of the food he was hungry forenraged at "the fool fry-pan"enraged at the fool Colonel for balancing it so badly.

Such a force as this new one of Carleton's was expected to dismay the rebel colonies.

Also like his brother he was inclined to reduce his duty dances to a minimum, much to Lady Dorchester's dismay.

" "Well, I should say so!" cried Chet, to whom the description of the queer old house, while dismaying his sister, had appealed immensely.

But here she stopped in great dismay, for it seemed that she had thus answered her own longing and prayer.

It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing anything here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind.

F. This youth and Richard think me easily won; But Marian rather will embrace The bony carcase of dismaying death, Than prove unchaste to noble Fauconbridge.

During the action Toonahowi, the nephew of Tomo Chichi, who had command of one hundred Indians, was shot through the right arm by Captain Mageleto, which, so far from dismaying the young warrior, only fired his revenge.

Two days later there occurred an irruption of dismaying young men with casual squares of paper in their pockets, upon which they scratched brief notes.

From the fields, as we whirled into and out of layers of air, sharply, as one does in a motor, came now the odor of ripe straw, now a whiff of coffee from a "goulash cannon," steaming away behind its troop like the calliope in the old-fashioned circus, and now and then, from some thicket or across a clover field, the sharp, dismaying smell of rotting flesh.

Just as he had finished making it and had pushed one end of the wire through, the telephone bell rang, and Jane in dismay sprang to answer it.

The next evening David brought the dismaying word that the president of the Paper Company had gone to Atlantic City for several weeks.

Even London was in dismay.

At the first Battle of Philippi, the young Octavius came near being killed or captured, in consequence of the success of Brutus's attack, which had the effect of throwing his men into utter confusion, so that they fled in dismay.

If this sudden revolution took all Italy by surprise, we can understand the dismay of Louis XII., who found that he had all his work to do over again.

In the fort all was terror and dismay, though the Governor manfully did his duty.

The sounds he made in which he greeted any one he liked, or in anger, were terrible, dismaying.

They heaped the bright fire higher; poured dark wine; And in long revelry dazed the questioning eye; Curtained three-fold the heart-dismaying shine Of midnight streaming by.

Sin loses half its dismaying power, and evil is stripped of its terrors, if one recognizes how far ideal motives enter with controlling influence into personal life, and to what a degree ideal destinies are already incarnate in the spirit of great nations.

The motion was sickly and dismaying, like the throes of one who is dying.

1769 examples of  dismaying  in sentences