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  • Once settled, he realized they were the Keepers, and to his chagrin that meant Gaily was among them.†   (source)
  • She was only twenty-seven years old, and despite having two sons, Tony, who was eleven, and Wes, she was still young enough to enjoy partying, dancing, and being noticed by men—and noticing them back—much to the chagrin of her family and friends who ended up watching the boys so many nights.†   (source)
  • And by this token, not much of a money-making venture, for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims, much to Father's chagrin.†   (source)
  • Seventeen years ago she was chagrined when I started dating Ted.†   (source)
  • Much to my chagrin, that is an incontestable fact.†   (source)
  • Alas, my lord father would no doubt be most chagrined if his son of Lannister went to his fate like a load of turnips.†   (source)
  • Her smile was full of chagrin.†   (source)
  • With chagrin, I realized the probable cause — no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was.†   (source)
  • There was some self-pity creeping in, and not a little chagrin at being stupid enough to just let them run when I didn't know the country.†   (source)
  • To the buyer's chagrin, Holmes promptly opened a new drugstore just across the street, in his own corner shop.†   (source)
  • " When I didn't say anything, he added, "Astonished, chagrined, and saddened.†   (source)
  • But she is chagrined to learn that the dog tags, after all this time, did not have any magical effect on the bad guys.†   (source)
  • She would be in trouble not because she had taken him to her house, especially if it was closer than Sidewinder (and so Paul believed it to be); for that they would probably give her a medal and a lifetime membership in the Misery Chastain Fan Club (to Paul's endless chagrin there actually was such a thing).†   (source)
  • The butler looked chagrined and let her in.†   (source)
  • When he finally crawled off the sofa, he was somewhat chagrined to see that the ice follies had fizzled out so quickly but delighted to see Nan and the kids when they showed up less than an hour later.†   (source)
  • He glanced up at me and gave a chagrined smile.†   (source)
  • Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want.†   (source)
  • Paul stepped back, chagrined.†   (source)
  • She would go on like that for hours, connecting one offense to another until all of the things that chagrined her were spewed out.†   (source)
  • Tearing the last bit of flesh off a thin leg bone, he heaved a sigh of contentment and then hesitated, chagrined to realize that, in spite of himself, he had enjoyed the meal.†   (source)
  • Once Dick located a cache of wine and whiskey bottles at the bottom of a ditch, and was chagrined to learn that his discovery was valueless.†   (source)
  • Now Alex flushed with chagrin: at least she had a life to be changed.†   (source)
  • To my chagrin, Ameh Bozorg followed us outside.†   (source)
  • After Johnnie was gone, Buckheath chewed for some time the bitter cud of chagrin.†   (source)
  • The unlikeliness of Harris's bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin.†   (source)
  • I retired chagrined from the field of contest.†   (source)
  • Somewhat to Nancy's chagrin, Greer liked to make his own coffee with a West Bend drip machine on the credenza behind his desk, where he could just turn around to reach it.†   (source)
  • Zethes looked chagrined.†   (source)
  • He was mildly chagrined that Call had left before he could borrow the money--extracting money from Augustus had always been a long and wearisome business.†   (source)
  • Miles talked her into going to Bloomingdale's to help him buy a gift for his mother because she'd be thrilled and slightly shamed, his mother would, wrapped in happy chagrin, outside Toledo, to own a thing from Bloomingdale's.†   (source)
  • I am deeply chagrined that any editor would accept a story without verification in which such obviously erroneous information is contained…… If the man who wrote that story had any sense, he would know you couldn't 'boat' a race run in that fast time.†   (source)
  • But much to my chagrin, Drew is actually one of the few things in my day that I don't completely dread, because at least with him, I feel a certain sense of control.†   (source)
  • A bit farther on to the left, and much to Jack's chagrin, Aven had fallen asleep with her head nestled in the crook of Bug's arm, while in between, he and Charles were clustered with the Steward of Paralon, who was watching them from half-closed eyes.†   (source)
  • To my chagrin, Raleigh wandered up.†   (source)
  • He was dashing and dejected, poised and chagrined.†   (source)
  • "Interesting," I muttered, chagrined that I secretly watched Gossip Girl on a regular basis.†   (source)
  • To her chagrin, she was quoted verbatim (but fortunately as an "anonymous observer") in every foreign paper.†   (source)
  • The very young lieutenant's face heated with anger and chagrin, the shine of her first adult romance suddenly gone, the whole thing turned sordid and calculating.†   (source)
  • … No, honestly, I'm not chagrined, not disappointed-just curious.†   (source)
  • Kennedy, much to the chagrin of his Secret Service bodyguards, put his life at risk by eagerly wading into the crowd.†   (source)
  • The guests chuckle at this, but Mrs. Wharton is chagrined.†   (source)
  • I felt chagrined at the wasted effort.†   (source)
  • But a second later, as we enter the city of Sarlat, I forget my chagrin at the sight of all the red geraniums spilling down from window boxes above my head; the narrow cobblestoned streets; the villagers, hurrying along to the open-air market with their baskets filled with baguettes and vegetables.†   (source)
  • Dr. Mansour, however, heard Hisham out with head bowed, refused his arguments with one short sentence, then drove him with another to a further attempt to convince him, and so on, until Dr. Mansour had had his fill of Hisham's chagrin and despair and stood up, bringing the meeting to a close by saying, in a soft well-mannered voice, "I hope to hear of your resignation in the near future.†   (source)
  • When all was in order, I focused the telescope; but to my chagrin I could see no wolves.†   (source)
  • Ralph swallowed, chagrined.†   (source)
  • Coming home with such rich cargo, he was chagrined.†   (source)
  • The white man who had asked the question slapped his forehead in real chagrin.†   (source)
  • I can almost feel your chagrin as you read this, and see that "but I don't know a damn thing about raising peanuts" look in your eye.†   (source)
  • When no one checked out a book in three years, officials were noticeably chagrined.†   (source)
  • Long afterward Blaine was to admit: "In the exaggerated denunciation caused by the anger and chagrin of the moment, great injustice was done to statesmen of spotless character.†   (source)
  • (Chagrined) So you give it away, of course.†   (source)
  • He spent great energy and achieved, to our chagrin, no small amount of success in keeping us away from the people who surrounded us, people who had all-night rent parties to which we listened when we should have been sleeping, people who cursed and drank and flashed razor blades on Lenox Avenue.†   (source)
  • Chaotic response of anger, chagrin, fear of lost reputation, self-deprecation, shame— "Sign off, Gus.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Dick, his face screwed up in chagrin, "it is too late in any case."†   (source)
  • "I am chagrined," he said with dignity, "that I have not controlled my own household."   (source)
    chagrined = embarrassed and disappointed
  • The chagrin in her tone was not because I was upset, but because she did not like being wrong.   (source)
    chagrin = ill feeling of embarrassment
  •   "Don't the servants do that?" she inquired.
      "We have no servants," said her aunt quietly.
      Surprise and chagrin left Kit speechless.   (source)
    chagrin = embarrassment
  • Kit hesitated, chagrined.   (source)
    chagrined = disappointed
  • The blood rushed into my face, fueled by irritation and chagrin.†   (source)
  • Eventually, much to Ruth's chagrin, he agreed with her logic.†   (source)
  • He laughs, the chagrined laugh that even now I find appealing.†   (source)
  • Marillion gaped at her, confusion giving way to chagrin as Catelyn rose slowly to her feet.†   (source)
  • His expression shifted instantly to chagrin.†   (source)
  • Her mother had said those things, Ruth recalled with chagrin.†   (source)
  • My face went from white to scarlet in a sudden blaze of chagrin.†   (source)
  • As soon as the words were out, I flushed with chagrin.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry," she said in a chagrined voice.†   (source)
  • Chagrin washed through me, and I waited for the heat to burn in my cheeks and give me away.†   (source)
  • But she isn't even aware of the chagrin this could cause.†   (source)
  • "My lady," he said, chagrined that he had not heard her enter.†   (source)
  • I stared up at her, frightened, but she only seemed chagrined.†   (source)
  • Chagrined, she looked first for an eraser, then for other signs — as Grover no doubt intended.†   (source)
  • With a sense of surprise Stoddard saw in his face only dismay and chagrin.†   (source)
  • I tried to concentrate on the relief of this fact rather than the chagrin, but it wasn't easy.†   (source)
  • Because that ugly face was torn with confusion and surprise and chagrin.†   (source)
  • My face twisted into an expression somewhere between chagrin and horror.†   (source)
  • The old man chuckled heartily at Nately's look of chagrin.†   (source)
  • " "Why, damn," Jake said, plainly chagrined.†   (source)
  • To my chagrin, Moody accompanied me to Chamsey's house.†   (source)
  • Felicity blurts out, much to my chagrin.†   (source)
  • Chagrined, Eragon turned to Arya, intending to apologize.†   (source)
  • I couldn't do this for them,Melanie said, suddenly chagrined.†   (source)
  • Caius scowled, looking as chagrined as if Aro's gentle questions had been blows.†   (source)
  • 'Not those letters,' Corporal Whitcomb corrected, plainly enjoying the chaplain's chagrin.†   (source)
  • I gritted my teeth for a second, chagrined that he had made the connection so easily.†   (source)
  • To my shame and chagrin I felt my knees buckle and I nearly fell, but Larry grabbed and held me.†   (source)
  • He was chagrined when next morning Attean came walking out of the woods and surprised him at his practice.†   (source)
  • He was still feeling a little chagrined, like it was his fault that they'd yet to try anything, but he didn't offer any ideas.†   (source)
  • Paul, less conditioned to emergency response than his mother, felt chagrin that he had stiffened and tried to withdraw, that he had clouded his abilities by a momentary panic.†   (source)
  • Mack nodded, relieved and a little chagrined that he had again allowed himself to lose his composure.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday, August 12, just four days after he and Codman arrived in Chicago, Olmsted filed a report with the exposition directors, who then to his chagrin made the report public.†   (source)
  • I felt his eyes on my face but I couldn't look at him yet, afraid he might read the chagrin in my eyes.†   (source)
  • Mack could feel his deep anger emerging again, pushing out the questions in front of it, and he was a little chagrined at his own lack of self-control.†   (source)
  • I hid my chagrin.†   (source)
  • Despite her relief that he seemed to have seen the light—finally—and her chagrin that he needed to be pretty much smacked on the head with the obvious, at least he was on her side now.†   (source)
  • Vic had invented it one day on his lunch hour, and to Donna's mixed relief and chagrin, it worked when her own efforts to use psychology, Parent Effectiveness Training, and, finally, blunt discipline had failed.†   (source)
  • "I was so looking forward to my next visit," he said with mock chagrin, and, chuckling, people returned to their conversations.†   (source)
  • And much to m),ever-loving chagrin.†   (source)
  • "Ah!" she exclaimed, as if hurt, then turned to look up at the man, doing her best to appear chagrined.†   (source)
  • Longstreet's longtime friendship with Grant figured prominently in his embrace of pro-Union Reconstruction efforts, much to the chagrin of diehard rebels, who soon began an active series of revisionist attacks on the great southern general, attempting somewhat successfully to impugn his reputation as a leader and paint him as a coward.†   (source)
  • Which made sense, Jeremy noted with chagrin: the editor was a vegetarian, and his wife was both gorgeous and about as bright as an Alaskan winter sky.†   (source)
  • Chagrined, she crossed her arms and felt something akin to a knife blade plunging into her back and shoulders while Travis readied the stethoscope.†   (source)
  • To say I was chagrined to discover I was not alone would be an understatement; for sitting directly behind me, and not twenty yards away, were the missing wolves.†   (source)
  • I didn't even have the strength to feel chagrin at embarrassing my queen and staunchest defender once again by providing a spectacle for the entire court of Eddis.†   (source)
  • From what he heard, Roran had concluded Edric was a competent commander-Nasuada never would have put him in charge of such an important mission otherwise-but he had an abrasive personality, and he disciplined his warriors for even the slightest deviation from established practice, as Roran had learned to his chagrin upon three separate occasions during his first day with Edric's company.†   (source)
  • To her parents' chagrin, my mother became a Carmelite nun, abandoning the ancient Syrian Christian tradition of St. Thomas to embrace (in her parents' view) this Johnny-come-lately, pope-worshipping sect.†   (source)
  • …while")' The prosecution's most damaging witness proved to be Alvin Dewey; his testimony, the first public rendering of the events detailed in Perry Smith's confession, earned large headlines (UNVEIL MUTE MURDER HORROR-COLD, CHILLING FACTS TOLD), and shocked his listeners-none more so than Richard Hickock, who came to a startled and chagrined attention when, in the course of Dewey's commentary, the agent said, "There is one incident Smith related to me that I haven't as yet mentioned.†   (source)
  • And how chagrined to discover, squinting at his schedule in the breezeway, that for his next class he had that same room again.†   (source)
  • The amende was so sweetly made that even Lydia Sessions, still exceedingly employed at being pictorially chagrined over the depravity of her neophyte, could but be appeased.†   (source)
  • Felicity is pushing through the crowd, her chagrined chaperone struggling to keep up as the dowagers look on, disapprovingly.†   (source)
  • Edward stopped a few steps away from Aro, and I realized with some chagrin that though I certainly could, I should not prevent this exchange from happening.†   (source)
  • The chaplain was shocked by his bellicose words and tone and, to his own amazement and mystification, deeply chagrined that they were turning him loose.†   (source)
  • Chagrin tightened his lips.†   (source)
  • I could do chagrin.†   (source)
  • Chagrin.†   (source)
  • Surprised and chagrined.†   (source)
  • I impressed no one with the performance and discovered to my unconcealed chagrin that I had played the Emperor Waltz instead.†   (source)
  • After the first day of extravagant spending, the kids took inventory of their finances and discovered to their chagrin that the trinkets for which they had bartered so generously that day were priced like crown jewels.†   (source)
  • I feel her turn rigid and hear her gasp at the horrid verb; she pulls away from me, and something about her prissy chagrin enrages me more.†   (source)
  • With no chagrin, no shock, not even with revelation, the thought flew through her mind like a sparrow: They're all from dead Jews.†   (source)
  • To Sophie's chagrin, she felt the thin outer layer of her cool facade begin to shiver and crack, and her composure faltered; she was aware of a quirky quaver in her voice.†   (source)
  • Most of what he was saying—especially about my "responsibility"—was lopsided, irrational, smug and horrendously wrong, yet to my nearly total chagrin at that point, I found that I could not answer.†   (source)
  • Of the tumult of black emotions that sweeps through one after a robbery—chagrin, despair, rage, hatred of the human race—the one that usually comes last is also one of the most poisonous: suspicion.†   (source)
  • I felt stricken by an emotion that was very nearly grief, and I could not have been victim of more shock and chagrin had he told me that Nathan was dying of some incurably degenerative physical disease.†   (source)
  • It no longer really mattered and I sensed that my earlier rage and chagrin were now supplanted by an odd, complex unrest about the purloined cash, which, after all, had been the proceeds of the sale of a human being.†   (source)
  • It was as if I had been privy to sudden senseless death, as if Sophie (and Nathan too, for despite the rage, the resentful chagrin and confusion he had made me suffer, he was too intricately bound up in our triadic relationship for me to suddenly abandon the love and loyalty I felt for him) had been wiped out in one of those catastrophic traffic accidents which occur in an eyewink, leaving the survivors too stunned even to curse heaven.†   (source)
  • The heat hung close and sticky in the hallway; it was heat unreasonably intense even for the summer evening—adding bafflement to the chagrin with which I was already overwhelmed—and for an instant I thought there must be a conflagration lurking behind the pink walls until I suddenly spied Morris Fink crouched in one corner, laboring over a steaming radiator.†   (source)
  • An audible feel of chagrin in the car, making itself known by soft moans and sighs, was drowned out by the boys' raucous cheers, at first so deafening and then so continuous that Sophie, rigidly immobilized in the blackest dark, knew in a flash that no cry or protest would avail her when she felt, now, from behind her the hand slither up between her thighs underneath her skirt.†   (source)
  • Chagrined, David resolved to do better, and thereafter followed faithfully all his leader's antics, not even balking at running up and down the wooden stairs that led into the ice-man's cellar.†   (source)
  • The Munroe girls were concealing their chagrin at the defection of the swarthy Fontaine boys, but they were annoyed at the way Tony and Alex stood about the circle, jockeying for a position near Scarlett should any of the others arise from their places.†   (source)
  • His desires were not modest—no fortune under $250,000 satisfied him: the income of $100,000 at six per cent would pinch one, he felt, from lavishness; and if the reward of virtue was only twenty thousand dollars, he felt bitter chagrin, reckoning life insecure, and comfort a present warmth.†   (source)
  • Rambert learned to his chagrin that Cottard didn't know where Gonzales lived; he suggested that they'd better pay another visit to the small café.†   (source)
  • Ever since his trip to America, he had wanted a house like that of one of the Mount Sinai doctors, and now, to her chagrin, he designed and built, next to the wooden house Shigeyuki was living in, a three-story concrete home for himself alone.†   (source)
  • She chuckled at his chagrin.†   (source)
  • Gid odda heal" Chagrined, routed, he hurried through the corridor, finding a little relief in escaping from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Chagrined, he looked at Aunt Bertha.†   (source)
  • Everyone had to bow down before his father, except Aunt Bertha, and as Mr. Sternowitz's humility and selfdeprecation increased, she became more chagrined and defiant.†   (source)
  • MacNelly cursed and again threw up his hands, this time in baffled chagrin.†   (source)
  • At any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor triumph.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and surprise.†   (source)
  • They stared at one another in chagrin, waiting for the outmaneuvered assistant to enter.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined.†   (source)
  • "And then is it nothing to you?" he asked, almost rigid with chagrin.†   (source)
  • He took the book, to Paul's immense chagrin, and began the copying himself.†   (source)
  • Miriam picked up her books and stood in the doorway looking with chagrin at the beautiful sunset.†   (source)
  • Clara, ashamed and chagrined, brought him a bottle of stout and a glass.†   (source)
  • His chagrin and disappointment at discovering its worthlessness would be a good joke, it was said.†   (source)
  • "You were about to confide it to Monsieur Bonacieux," said d'Artagnan, with chagrin.†   (source)
  • "Am I, then, so very revolting?" he demanded, with an air of chagrin.†   (source)
  • Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures.†   (source)
  • Cora bowed her head in disappointment, and, for a bitter moment struggled with her chagrin.†   (source)
  • He accosted Fix with a merry smile, as if he had not perceived that gentleman's chagrin.†   (source)
  • Jack kept faithfully at it, unmindful of defeats, often chagrined when he missed some easy opportunity.†   (source)
  • Then, going over his little book of record, which he kept faithfully, he was amazed and chagrined to discover that such was the case.†   (source)
  • "What's out there?" he asked, secretly irritated and chagrined to think that he should be made to pump for information in this manner.†   (source)
  • The cover was lifted from within, and the pigeons flew away with a clatter that brought the chagrined poulterer cursing and swearing to the door.†   (source)
  • Then his words of gladness at sight of her, his chagrin at not being at the train to welcome her, were not so memorable of him as the way he clasped her, for he had held her that way the day he left home, and she had not forgotten.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXI The chagrin Wolf Larsen felt from being ignored by Maud Brewster and me in the conversation at table had to express itself in some fashion, and it fell to Thomas Mugridge to be the victim.†   (source)
  • He showed no disappointment or chagrin, but the bold pleasantness left his face, and, slight as that change was, it stripped him of the only redeeming quality he showed.†   (source)
  • He had tried to bring up the subject of this latest death with his tablemates, but had been met by a unanimous rebuff so sullen that he felt both chagrined and outraged.†   (source)
  • The fact that he had sent the money and that she had received it worked to the ease of his mind, for, as the thought that he had done it receded, his chagrin at it grew less and his hope of peace more.†   (source)
  • To my amused chagrin, he discovered my shoes on the forecastle head and brought them back with him into the galley.†   (source)
  • Altogether, look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and discontent upon his features.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hurstwood was the type of woman who has ever endeavoured to shine and has been more or less chagrined at the evidences of superior capability in this direction elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Often, when wiping the dishes, she would stand in bewilderment and chagrin because she had pulled in two halves a cup or a tumbler.†   (source)
  • But I understand"; and she sat back in her chair, her chin in one hand, holding her elbow with the other, brimmed up with wrath and chagrin.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the gradation of his copy rendered it not so readily perceptible; or, more possibly, I owed my security to the master air of the copyist, who, disdaining the letter, (which in a painting is all the obtuse can see,) gave but the full spirit of his original for my individual contemplation and chagrin.†   (source)
  • Lifting up his eyes, as he arrived at the conclusion that there was no remedy for this unfortunate state of things, he beheld a horseman coming towards him, whom, on nearer approach, he discovered, to his infinite chagrin, to be no other than Mr John Browdie, who, clad in cords and leather leggings, was urging his animal forward by means of a thick ash stick, which seemed to have been recently cut from some stout sapling.†   (source)
  • I carefully noted every conversation of this nature as soon as it occurred, but these notes will never leave my writing-case; I had rather injure the success of my statements than add my name to the list of those strangers who repay the generous hospitality they have received by subsequent chagrin and annoyance.†   (source)
  • It turns from me; it will not suffer further scrutiny; it seems to deny, by a mocking glance, the truth of the discoveries I have already made, — to disown the charge both of sensibility and chagrin: its pride and reserve only confirm me in my opinion.†   (source)
  • He notes every variation of face as the play progresses, gathering a fund of thought from the differences in the expression of certainty, of surprise, of triumph, or of chagrin.†   (source)
  • With this expression of feeling for his unfortunate friend, Master Bates sat himself on the nearest chair with an aspect of chagrin and despondency.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will suffice that she was indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her deep chagrin, her husband was successively relegated.†   (source)
  • Kitty was distressed, as she always was, at parting for a couple of days from her husband, but when she saw his eager figure, looking big and strong in his shooting-boots and his white blouse, and a sort of sportsman elation and excitement incomprehensible to her, she forgot her own chagrin for the sake of his pleasure, and said good-bye to him cheerfully.†   (source)
  • But he could not take root in any of these; with chagrin, he found his masters invariably whimsical and irregular, constantly running about the country, or on the look-out for adventure.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ludlow sacrificed, as I say, to Paris, yet had doubts and wonderments not allayed at that altar; and after her husband had joined her found further chagrin in his failure to throw himself into these speculations.†   (source)
  • Looking somewhat chagrined, he put the coin into Hepzibah's hand, and departed, sending the second Jim Crow in quest of the former one.†   (source)
  • Next day it all came out, sadly to my chagrin; and still I was not altogether sorry: I thought the burden of directing and warning would be more efficiently borne by him than me.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.†   (source)
  • Every knight of the Table jumped for the chance, and begged for it; but to their vexation and chagrin the king conferred it upon me, who had not asked for it at all.†   (source)
  • The stint of reciprocal feeling was perceived, and Henchard showed chagrin at once—nobody was more quick to show that than he.†   (source)
  • Though the source of M. Michaud's chagrin must have been different from that which caused Russians to grieve, he had such a sad face when shown into the Emperor's study that the latter at once asked: "Have you brought me sad news, Colonel?"†   (source)
  • His face looked exhausted; his reddened eyes hadn't been refreshed by sleep; his facial features expressed profound sadness, real chagrin.†   (source)
  • In her own past behaviour, there was a constant source of vexation and regret; and in the unhappy defects of her family, a subject of yet heavier chagrin.†   (source)
  • To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.†   (source)
  • "He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call him 'Your Majesty,' but who, to his chagrin, got no title from me!†   (source)
  • This functionary, however well disposed to my friend, could not altogether conceal his chagrin at the turn which affairs had taken, and was fain to indulge in a sarcasm or two, about the propriety of every person minding his own business.†   (source)
  • It filled me with real chagrin to crush underfoot the gleaming mollusk samples that littered the seafloor by the thousands: concentric comb shells, hammer shells, coquina (seashells that actually hop around), top–shell snails, red helmet shells, angel–wing conchs, sea hares, and so many other exhibits from this inexhaustible ocean.†   (source)
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