1 Stephen saw it sink as he had seen many another, feeling its heaviness depress his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 2 The great silver buckle of her belt seemed to depress the centre of her body, catching the light stuff of her white blouse like a clip.
3 In a few days practically all the students and teachers had left for their homes, and this served to depress my spirits even more.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 4 I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.
5 Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself in acute depression.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 2: VIII 6 The greatest disorder and depression had been in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven miles away from the French.
7 Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.
8 Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.
9 If he did not at once give his consent to a reunion with his wife, it was only because in his state of depression he did not feel able to take any step.
10 Since the ball he had felt the approach of a fit of nervous depression and had made desperate efforts to combat it.
11 It was only at headquarters that there was depression, uneasiness, and intriguing; in the body of the army they did not ask themselves where they were going or why.
12 Rostov galloped back with the rest, aware of an unpleasant feeling of depression in his heart.
13 When Pierre and his wife had left, he grew very quiet and began to complain of depression.
14 Ever since that leave of absence had expired, more than a fortnight before, Natasha had been in a constant state of alarm, depression, and irritability.
15 The worst of it was, Clifford tended to become vague, absent, and to fall into fits of vacant depression.