I was dismayed at first with the number of letters received from all over France asking my intercession with the minister on every possible subject from a "monument historique" to be restored, to a pension given to an old schoolmaster no longer able to work, with a large family to support.

We pass over the dismay of the banqueters, the arrest and confession of Helladia, the general amazement at the revelation of her sex, the frantic grief of the Emperor.

I forgot you don't knowof course you don't," broke in Johnnie with a sudden dismay in her voice.

When I went out in the afternoon for my usual stroll,or rather when I returned from that stroll,I saw once more before me the woman with her baby, whose story had filled me with dismay on the previous evening.

Fierce and swift leapt Beltane to smite againcame a shock of clashing steel, a flurry of stroke and counter-stroke, and thereafter, a hoarse shout of dismay from Roger: for Beltane stood as one dazed, staring upon his empty right hand what time the knight boomed derisive laughter through his vizor.

I need not say how many marvels of no common character I have seen on Earth; how many visions that, if I told them, none who have not shared them would believe; wonders that the few who have seen them can never forget, nordespite all experience and all theoretical explanationrecall without renewing the thrill of awe-stricken dismay with which the sight was first beheld.

The magnitude of these tasks had struck dismay to Avery's heart.

The Saxons were dismayed beyond measure, and without stay or delay fled from their foe.

In a better educated state of society, these events, so sudden and so important, must have been attributed to proximate and obvious causesthe combinations of operations over which Ivan had no control, and the dismay into which the Tartars were surprised, followed up quickly by overwhelming masses who possessed the superiority in numbers and in plan.

" Thus having ended all her piteous plaint, 470 With dolefull shrikes shee vanished away, That I, through inward sorrowe wexen faint, And all astonished with deepe dismay For her departure, had no word to say; But sate long time in sencelesse sad affright, 475 Looking still, if I might of her have sight.

Their baggage and stores were all seized, and the troops themselves fled in dismay by all the roads which led back to the Rhine; and there those who succeeded in escaping death from the Romans, who pursued them all the way, embarked in boats and upon rafts, and returned to their homes.

Terror drove the Romans in dismay through the entire camp; and matters would have come to extremities had not the lieutenants, hastily seizing the body of the consul opened a passage for the enemy at one gate.

slunk dismayed under the carthis ears down, and as much as he had of tail down, too.

Their yells were an inspiration to their white comrades and spread dismay among the Spaniards.

The Russian policies were not dismayed over this failure.

" The friars exchanged glances of astonishment and dismay as a dish of fruit and of white bread were brought forward by two of the ducal guards, on a costly salver wrought with the arms of Venice.

But her heart had given a little throb of dismay within her.

That those proceedings should have aroused some slight excitement and dismay amongst the dispossessed owners was not, perhaps, astonishing, even to those engaged in it.

Those of the Italian sovereigns who were not willing to follow his lead of their own accord, were obliged to yield in dismay before the spirit which he had awakened in their subjects.

But this is a sketch made at a time when the Frankish race was only known among the Gauls through its marauding tribes, whose raids, from time to time, spread terror and dismay throughout the countries which they visited.

The "just a little way" of Polly's lengthened on and on until the three who were not accustomed to country fields looked in dismay toward the long line of trees which seemed so very far off.

'Our emperor,' said he to me, recently, 'goes to Malmaison much too often; the high circles of society, and the diplomatic body, are already in dismay about it; it is feared that he is there subjected to influences to which policy requires he should not be exposed.'