1 My clothes were rather a disappointment, of course.
2 These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment.
3 I was disappointed to find that the day was a holiday; no children were there, and Biddy's house was closed.
4 I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
5 I went on with my explanation, and told her how I had hoped to complete the transaction out of my means, but how in this I was disappointed.
6 Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.
7 Dispirited and anxious, long hoping that to-morrow or next week would clear my way, and long disappointed, I sadly missed the cheerful face and ready response of my friend.
8 All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.
9 For the present, under the circumstances, we deemed it prudent to make rather light of the matter to Trabb's boy; who, I am convinced, would have been much affected by disappointment, if he had known that his intervention saved me from the limekiln.
10 When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured, and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.