They loved their father as daughters can, and when they saw their pretended dejection harassing him seriously they restrained their complaints, displayed more than ordinary tenderness, and heroically and ostentatiously concluded there was no place like Belles Demoiselles.

These reflections made me so sad, that, when I reached the store, the book-keeper noticed my dejection, and told me, by way of cheering me, that he had another order for a hundred dollars' worth of goods, &c.; but this did not relieve me.

As if exhausted by the tortures of fatigue and starvation she lay back in an attitude of utter abandonment to her fate, and only the gleam of her eyes and the smile on her lips belied the dejection of her pose.

BLOOMFLELD, ROBERT, an English poet, born in Suffolk, by trade a shoemaker; author of the "Farmer's Boy," a highly popular production, translated into French and Italian; spent his last days in ill-health struggling with poverty, which brought on dejection of mind (1766-1823).

Though half dead when, he gave over the certificate to the seven presumptive heirs he said in his old tone of voice that he did not wish this token of his decease to cause dejection to mature men whom he would much rather think of as laughing than as weeping heirs.

To a Friend I love to watch thy youthful eye, That speaks thy fond affection; I love to hear thy tender sigh, It charms my deep dejection.

Nor do I say that you should not grieve: I do not condemn dejection, but the intensity of it.

It was scarcely necessary for me to deduce my own youthful dejection from the general influence of my time, and from the reading of a few English authors.

He made no attempt to disguise his dejection.

Altogether, he displayed neither dejection nor terror, but with an unbending spirit, as if no serious evil had befallen them, he both planned and executed all measures of immediate benefit.

The embarrassed condition in which he found his affairs sufficiently explains the dejection and uneasiness with which he was afflicted during the latter part of his residence in Greece; and yet it was not such as ought to have affected him so deeply, nor have I ever been able to comprehend wherefore so much stress has been laid on his supposed friendlessness.

His attitude expressed dejection.

In what dejection you have fallen!

The number of my friends was never great, but they have been such as would not suffer me to think that I was writing in vain, and I did not feel much dejection from the want of popularity.

I found the most abject dejection under a pretended fortitude.

They happened to be alone that afternoon in his great bare studio, where no soft background or dim lights conspired to hide her dejection.

The only observer felt a deep conviction that the children would never see that snake, and slight and ridiculous as the incident was, Swan's last speech sunk deeply into Valentine's heart, and served to increase his dejection.

Why thus treat with so much harshness Those who mourn thy deep dejection? ESCARPIN.

He could not help observing an uncommon dejection and anxiety in my countenance, and affectionately enquired into the reason.

My uncle pitied my dejection, and bid me prepare myself against next year, for no land-lubber should touch his money.

It was easy to read my dejection in my countenance.

My poor mother continued very ill for many weeks: no medicine would remove the extreme dejection of spirits she laboured under.

Everybody I see takes notice of my looking pale and ill, and all my good friends tease me about my gravity, and, indeed, dejection.

But he, in the meanwhile, had thrown off his dejection.

By depression of spirits I understand a dejection without any cause that could be stated, or from causes which in a healthy mind would produce no such degree of dejection.