You cannot know that the house is watched!" If he had expected to surprise my father, he must have felt a poignant disappointment; but perhaps he knew that surprise was a sentiment he seldom permitted.

I can make them do nothing except by thrashing them, and if you like I shall call my headman, and with our whips of rhinoceros hide we will soon make them all believe together!" Like all missionaries, Livingstone was doomed to suffer disappointments.

The Holcrofts bear their disappointment pretty well, but indeed they are sadly mortified.

The Arab delegation complains in their note lately issued expressing their disappointment at the Supreme Council's decision with regard to the Arab liberated countries, which, it declares, is contrary to the principle of self-determination.

"Never mind, honey," she said consolingly, forgetting her own disappointment in Billie's.

The review brought bitter disappointment to the regiment.

" With a voice that could not entirely conceal her disappointment, she "began about Jacob and read right on" until Mrs. Rheid's light step touched the plank at the kitchen door.

Mr. Heatherbloom experienced a keen disappointment; then felt abruptly reassured.

A man uses his best judgment when he meets disappointment.

" Gabrielle's dark eyes showed her disappointment, but she made one more effort to gain her end.

They said that Bennett had taken great pains to give me a splendid reception, that the party had waited till nine o'clock for me, and that my non-arrival caused considerable disappointment.

The time would fail me, too, did I try to explain how after He had appeared, Who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, men have still found the same disappointment in all the paths of life.

So he uses all his wits to keep from doing so, and to enable him to hide his own disappointment and make the best of life as he finds it.

But this, like all others, proved a disappointment, and he soon settled down into his waiting but necessary attitude of rest.

An enthusiasm for Italy, which survived many disappointments, dictated some of the most impressive passages of his Harold, and inspired the Lament of Tasso and the Ode on Venice.

Inquiries should be very minute, so that you may avoid disappointment and trouble, by knowing the weak points of your domestic.

He said no one knew the agonies he suffered at seeing his mother's disappointment over his apparent coldness and unresponsiveness.

"Well, if you feel that way, I don't see why you won't let me replace the statue," said Teddy, still nursing his disappointment.

All of these evils created bitter disappointment in Spain and discontent with the measures and government of Columbus himself, so that a commission of inquiry was sent to Hispaniola, headed by Aguado, who assumed arrogant authority, and made it necessary for Columbus to return to Spain without adding essentially to his discoveries.

One remembers the frequent disappointments that came to such intrepid climbers as Whymper in Ecuador, Martin Conway in Bolivia and Fitzgerald in Chile and Argentina, due to high winds, the sudden advent of terrific snowstorms and the weakness caused by soroche.

The unexpected intelligence was received by Cromwell with a coldness which betrayed his disappointment.

The day was spent idling about town waiting for Sabota to return so Skinny could get some whisky and drown his disappointment in love in intoxicated forgetfulness.

Could omens fright the resolute and wise, Well might we fear impending disappointments.

But Súdáveh still kept in view her own design, and still laboring for its success, sedulously read her own incantations to prevent disappointment, at any rate to punish the uncomplying youth if she failed.

I may mourn this disappointment, and foolishly wish, perhaps, it might have been otherwise; but ours is not a house of which the maidens die for their inclinations in favor of any youths, however deserving!"