58 examples of downhearted in sentences

Being aware that Rose and myself felt rather downhearted over our deserted village, the Doctor one day said that, as he had made the proprietors of Rome "howl," he would give us two lots each in Hays, and did so.

"The wounded men no longer were downhearted, but eager to rejoin the fray.

Lanyard secured the rejected berth and went about his business profoundly mystified, but not downhearted.

The storm had passed off, an ardent noonday sun was collaborating with a coquettish breeze to make gay the window awnings of the chamber where Lanyard, in borrowed pyjamas and dressing-gown of silk, lay luxuriously bedded, listening to the purr of wide-awake Paris and, with an excellent cigar to chew on, ruminating upon the problematic issue of his latest turn of fortune, and not in the least downhearted about it.

And I went to this on days when I was downhearted.

Besides, it ain't nothing to be downhearted about.

'Sometimes,' he said, 'you get downhearted, full of sorrow and fear, and you say, "I shall never hold on to the end."

Hence let us not feel downhearted in the belief that the compulsory collection of money appertains only to monarchy, and let us not turn away from the system for that reason, but conduct our deliberations with a full knowledge of the fact that in any case it is necessary for us to obtain funds, whatsoever form of government we may adopt.

When our fighting men refuse to be downhearted in the direst peril, we at home should follow their high example, note where we can the humours of the fray, and "bear in silence though our hearts may bleed.

Trench warfare is in full and deadly swing, but "Thomas of the light heart" refuses to be downhearted: He takes to fighting as a game, He does no talking through his hat Of holy missions: all the same He has his faithbe sure of that: He'll not disgrace his sporting breed Nor play what isn't cricket.

In England, once but no longer merry though not downhearted, in this once merry month of May, the question of Food and Food Production now dominates all others.

So she sat there, with her head on the arm of the chair, rather tired with the cry, rather downhearted for want of the supper she hadn't eaten, and making pictures in the fire, when all of a sudden it came into her head to wonder what they were doing at Coventry.

She told me that her uncle had not been dead many weeks, and I thought at first that this was the only grief she had on her mind; but after some time, when I found her very low and downhearted, and had won upon her to trust me almost as if I had been an old friend, she owned to me that she had behaved very badly to a gentleman she had been engaged to, and that the thought of her wickedness to him preyed upon her mind.

I know how many lonely days you've spent, so downhearted that you could scarcely speak or look up from your book, and that only an excuse for fretting.

"But it does concern me to see you downhearted, father," she answered gently.

You've seen me downhearted and out of sorts for this last half-year; but I don't suppose you've troubled yourself much about it, except to worry me with silly questions sometimes, when I've not been in the humour to be talked to.

" "Well, anyway, we all line up in a sorta circle and every one looks pretty downhearted and the three gobs gets perfectly sober, which was a relief.

Most of the camaradas were downhearted, naturally enough, and occasionally asked one of us if we really believed that we should ever get out alive; and we had to cheer them up as best we could.

He exhorts the Christians who are discouraged and downhearted to hold up their heads and to be brave.

"Don't be downhearted about it, captain," said Willet.

He would not get downhearted.

They're downhearted!" said one of the group.

Besides, what we did to the supposed wireless station ought to keep any general from being downhearted.

He grew rather downhearted as he trudged along, thinking.

We all felt pretty much downhearted.

58 examples of  downhearted  in sentences