All 8 Uses of
dismay
in
The Two Towers
- 'Your news is all of woe!' cried Eomer in dismay.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- Boromir had blown his great horn till the woods rang, and at first the Orcs had been dismayed and had drawn back; but when no answer but the echoes came, they had attacked more fierce than ever.†
Chpt 3.3
- Dismayed the rammers let fall the trees and turned to fight; but the wall of their shields was broken as by a lightning-stroke, and they were swept away, hewn down, or cast over the Rock into the stony stream below.†
Chpt 3.7
- There to his dismay he learned that Eomer had not reached the Hornburg.†
Chpt 3.7
- The Orcs upon the Rock, hearing the rumour of dismay, wavered and looked back.†
Chpt 3.7
- 'Stew the rabbits!' squealed Gollum in dismay.†
Chpt 4.4
- There was no longer any answer to that command in his own will, dismayed by terror though it was, and he felt only the beating upon him of a great power from outside.†
Chpt 4.8
- Turning his eyes away from the shadow behind and the deep gloom beneath the cliff upon his left, he looked ahead, and he saw two things that increased his dismay.†
Chpt 4.9
Definition:
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(dismay) to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising