"Ah! if in the freshness of her beauty, before the pollution of marriage and the disillusions of adultery, she could have anchored her life upon some great, strong heart, then virtue, tenderness, voluptuousness, and duty blending, she would never have fallen from so high a happiness.

It was as if there was more desolation and disillusion in that gaze than I had previously imagined the whole earth to contain.

In Medina he was disillusioned by finding neither Jews nor Christians prepared to acknowledge an Arabian prophet, not even for the Arabs only; so he was led to distinguish between the true contents of the Bible and that which had been made of it by the falsification of later Jews and Christians.

In the "Napoleon," what disillusion with the toys of the world in which he had reigned!

The present weariness and lassitude of human spirit and the disappointment and disillusion as to the aftermath of the harvest of blood, may have aggravated, but they could not cause the symptoms of which I speak; for the very obvious reason that all these symptoms were in existence and apparent to a few discerning men for decades before the war.

Disillusioned at last, robbed of his lifelong optimism, shorn of his ideals, even his lovefor he began to despise this beautiful, misguided womanHaines sat broken in spirit, thinking how quickly the brightness of life fades to blackness.

It brought disappointment and disillusion to his troops, who had been urged on to their disastrous massed attacks by flamboyant promises of success.