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  • and over all their faces there came an expression of uttermost dismay.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, worry, or discouragement
  • The others looked dismayed; only Aragorn, who knew Gandalf well, remained silent and unmoved.   (source)
    dismayed = worried or discouraged
  • Grant looked at them in dismay.†   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath—all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.   (source)
    dismayed = worried
  • He was quite dismayed when he first began to find it out—that most of the men hated their work.   (source)
    dismayed = disappointed or worried
  • "Oh, I BEG your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay,   (source)
    dismay = upset (by her error)
  • To Liesel's dismay, Mama was speechless.†   (source)
  • "Okay," she said, but there was a look of dismay on her small pale face.†   (source)
  • Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their heads in dismay at his obstinate ways.†   (source)
  • To Walt's dismay Chris bristled at this small dollop of fatherly advice.†   (source)
  • Other Japanese officers watched, some looking on approvingly, others looking dismayed.†   (source)
  • The judge shook her head in dismay.†   (source)
  • Miss Crocker, dismayed by Mama's seeming unconcern for the seriousness of the matter, thrust her shoulders back and began moving away from the desk.†   (source)
  • I was dismayed and frightened, of course, but I have to admit there was something exciting about this as well.†   (source)
  • With much dismay, he requested and was reluctantly granted early retirement.†   (source)
  • Follower spoke with dismay.†   (source)
  • Turning in dismay at the interruption, the Count discovered Abram standing behind him in a state of excitement.†   (source)
  • During the weeks that followed, Paul and Clara observed the developments with dismay, as their former community members were fired from their jobs and their children thrown out of the schools.†   (source)
  • I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.†   (source)
  • He already had been through this on numerous occasions with the new pontiff, who, to Aringarosa's great dismay, had turned out to be a distressingly fervent voice for liberal change in the Church.†   (source)
  • Residents of the neighborhood are in absolute dismay.†   (source)
  • Then they looked at each other in dismay.†   (source)
  • They swarmed along the path through the desert more swiftly than a vulture flies and Bod was carried along by them, held high overhead by a pair of strong ghoul arms, tossed from one to another, feeling sick, feeling dread and dismay, feeling stupid.†   (source)
  • "'The Minister's statement was met with dismay and alarm from the wizarding community, which as recently as last Wednesday was receiving Ministry assurances that there was "no truth whatsoever in these persistent rumours that You-Know-Who is operating amongst us once more".†   (source)
  • But I felt stumped as well as dismayed.†   (source)
  • What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing in Vietnam; I also saw a lot of other Americans who were self-righteously attracted to a most childish notion of heroism—namely, their own.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, Celaena began speaking in Eyllwe to the princess, who stomped her staff.†   (source)
  • Bran gave a wordless cry of dismay.†   (source)
  • I can almost hear Walsh's dismay as she turns to me, confused.†   (source)
  • The room erupted in outcries of anger and dismay.†   (source)
  • With dismay I saw that it was not far past two o'clock.†   (source)
  • Leo had heard somebody say that before, but he was still dismayed.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun watched, dismayed, as it rose four, five, six feet in the house—above the electrical box, the phone box.†   (source)
  • Dismayed at the thought of missing all the fun and freedom of summer, Sampson secretly cursed the concrete and his foot.†   (source)
  • With dismay, Kit saw the captain's wife among the passengers preparing to disembark.†   (source)
  • I lifted the cover of the wok and gasped in dismay.†   (source)
  • To Queen Levana's endless dismay, not all Lunars are so easily brainwashed into mindless contentment, and many have risked their lives to escape Luna and relocate here.†   (source)
  • Much to their embarrassment and Mammachi's dismay, he forced them to sit at table with him and drink tea.†   (source)
  • Tommy asked, dismayed.†   (source)
  • Much to the dismay of the girl working at the record store.†   (source)
  • HARRY looks at the doors, dismayed.†   (source)
  • I stopped in the doorway, dismayed, as the cab swooped in from the curb.†   (source)
  • To our great sorrow and dismay, we've heard that many people have changed their attitude toward us Jews.†   (source)
  • To her dismay I muttered, "I don't think I should say anything.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain that to him, and to my dismay, found myself near tears.†   (source)
  • He slips into bed, and when I turn to him with open eyes, he looks dismayed I'm awake.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by the terrible misunderstanding, the elves tried to end the hostilities, but couldn't find a way to communicate with the dragons.†   (source)
  • In dismay, I see that he is taller and heavier than I am.†   (source)
  • Mo, he's gone!" she said, dismayed.†   (source)
  • I turned to face him, dismayed.†   (source)
  • A heavy silence blanketed the room as all three Powells stared down in dismay at the mess on the floor.†   (source)
  • But I could see dismay in her eyes.†   (source)
  • But what I found at the University was much different than a story, and I was much dismayed.†   (source)
  • Nobu and I could do nothing but look at each other in dismay at the sight of the Minister lying perfectly still in the deep snow, like a branch that had fallen from a tree.†   (source)
  • Much to my dismay, I found that the building was full of sofas, mattresses, pots and pans and china, items of everyday use; which meant the Germans would certainly be dropping in for them quite often.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, I found myself the center of attention for the rest of that week.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by the play's mixed reception, left Russia.†   (source)
  • The big duels—between Hector and Ajax, between Diomedes and Paris, between Hector and Patroclus, between Hector and Achilles—are genuinely exciting and suspenseful, their outcomes sources of grand celebration and dismay.†   (source)
  • But then there came a great storm during the rainy season that destroyed all the roofs on all the huts in the village, and the people discovered to their dismay that there was no longer any roofleaf to be found.†   (source)
  • She frowned, and changes in her respiration and hormone levels told me she'd thought of something dismaying.†   (source)
  • They caught up with Nicholas Flamel, who had stopped in front of a small antiques shop, a dismayed look on his face.†   (source)
  • The source of Burnham's greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule.†   (source)
  • Was there a man dismay'd?†   (source)
  • called powers of the olden guard reel in dismay before our leaping strides and charged-up hustling, freewheeling idiom of high-tech personal accomplishment and betterment of all peoples.†   (source)
  • He should feel angry and dismayed, he supposed.†   (source)
  • To their dismay, the doctor refused to help them.†   (source)
  • She was dismayed, for the first thing they warned her about when they gave her the cleaning job was that she should not try to sleep with the clients.†   (source)
  • To the detective superintendent's dismay, the statute of limitations eventually put an end to the matter.†   (source)
  • This time the chorus of dismay was even louder.†   (source)
  • Jane cried, staring in dismay at the ragged edges of the torn-out page.†   (source)
  • Her leathery face displayed a twisting of emotions: dismay, anger ....With sudden insight, Leto realized that she must have planned to sell the water squeezings from the foot-trampled towels, wringing a few coppers from the wretches who came to the door.†   (source)
  • And don't look at me like that, Miss Shock-and-Dismay.†   (source)
  • Joe looked dismayed, and Dan could see his authority cracking before their eyes.†   (source)
  • I felt my face involuntarily slide into an expression of dismay.†   (source)
  • "It's scary," Kay said, but her tone was calm, more disapproving than dismayed, the same voice she might have used to talk about someone's divorce.†   (source)
  • His voice was gentle, which was enough for me to put together he was talking to the girl, not the guy who had moved on to moaning in dismay.†   (source)
  • There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers.†   (source)
  • After the first and only stoplight, the speed limit dropped to twenty-five miles an hour, and slowing the car, Jeremy took in the scene with dismay.†   (source)
  • As a teacher in the Dayton, Ohio, school system for ten years, I am dismayed and horrified that in this day and age a colleague of mine should suspend a student from school for singing the national anthem.†   (source)
  • Tom Geisbert looked at a piece of it under his microscope and, to his dismay, found that it was "incredibly hot—I mean, wall to wall with virus."†   (source)
  • Though she regularly sent her parents bank drafts, she'd been dismayed to find no improvements in the house since her last visit.†   (source)
  • So it was that the weak and beaten members of the tribe kept what dismay they felt to themselves, for they knew that the cold could bring on a wave of panic followed by cruelty and brutality among people fighting for survival.†   (source)
  • I look at her in dismay.†   (source)
  • The results of the test, to the dismay of Osprey's sheriff as well as Alvin Dewey, who does not believe in exceptional coincidences, were decisively negative.†   (source)
  • He smiled at my dismay.†   (source)
  • Walking through the halls can lead to dismay.†   (source)
  • Simon wasn't sure whether to be impressed or dismayed.†   (source)
  • Rawlins when he saw him seemed too dismayed to speak.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, the sight of such a safe, familiar place made him want to cry.†   (source)
  • Now her face dimpled as she remembered the shriek of dismay Laurella sent after her.†   (source)
  • After the thought had been going around he ward a week or so, the Big Nurse tried to make her play in group meeting; the first time she tried, McMurphy was there at the meeting and he beat her before she got good and started (she started by telling the group that she was shocked and dismayed by the pathetic state the ward had allowed itself to fall into: Look around, for heaven sakes; actual pornography clipped from those smut books and pinned on the walls-she was planning, incidentally, to see to it that the Main Building made an investigation of the dirt that had been brought into this hospital.†   (source)
  • With growing dismay Alec pointed out more spots of blood along the path.†   (source)
  • The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return.†   (source)
  • He suddenly felt dismayed at how little he had seen of her the last two years; he had so few opportunities to press her hands in his to stop them from trembling.†   (source)
  • My old friend Ork sat shaking his head in dismay, saying nothing, brooding, no doubt, on the dark metaphysical implications.†   (source)
  • It would just dismay me if you were really a fan.†   (source)
  • 'To who?' cried Milo, in a voice cracking with dismay.†   (source)
  • And dismay.†   (source)
  • I could feel my mouth rounding out the syllables of the numbers, and with some dismay I realized that finally, I had become my mother.†   (source)
  • To Max's dismay, Cooper stepped out of the elevator after them, dressed all in black and breathing heavily.†   (source)
  • It crashed to the floor and disintegrated, to both Majid's and Nelufar's dismay.†   (source)
  • But now, when I looked in dismay at Allie, who was champing at the bit to get back to her oblivion; when I thought about whether Pennsatucky would be able to keep it together and prove herself the good mom that she aspired to be; when I worried about my many friends at Danbury whose health was crushed by hepatitis and HIV; and when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own actions.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, a woman in cargo pants and a University of Michigan sweatshirt jumped out.†   (source)
  • He brought up the 1987 will, and much to Jake's delight, and much to the jurors' dismay, he fleshed it out once more.†   (source)
  • I suppose he noticed my dismay because he began to joke, pay me compliments, and ask me such absurd questions that soon I was laughing too.†   (source)
  • The two flirted that night, much to the dismay of Kennedy's staff, who were immediately concerned the pair would be caught having an affair during the campaign.†   (source)
  • "You kiddin," said the first man in mock dismay.†   (source)
  • He rushed back to the street, cursing, dismayed, humiliated, heading for the safety of his cousin's.†   (source)
  • Blackberry, dismayed, turned back to Hazel and Bigwig.†   (source)
  • There were shouts of dismay and disbelief, and John leaped forward to retrieve it before it burned.†   (source)
  • Her eyes are sweet and her face a schoolgirl trying her best to appear passionately dismayed.†   (source)
  • "You shall do no such thing!" she exclaimed, and I foresaw in her dismay the difficulty I would have with all his clients.†   (source)
  • Looking, she realized with a quick tug-of-war of delight and dismay, very much at home.†   (source)
  • Melissa sat down on the other side of Meredith, much to Henry's dismay.†   (source)
  • She grabbed one of the remaining cups of beer and walked away from the table, to the dismay of the guys who hung on her every movement.†   (source)
  • Darin doesn't look at me, but I feel his dismay.†   (source)
  • As they'd loaded onto the dropship, he'd been dismayed not to see Glass there.†   (source)
  • Its overnight transformation into a community of a hundred thousand was part of a pattern of insatiable development that dismayed traditional Californians, who saw more and more of their original landscape bulldozed by developers.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, Beanie, once again, was not there.†   (source)
  • "God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay," sang everyone except me.†   (source)
  • Unlike the multitude of romantics who are disturbed about the chaotic changes science and technology force upon the human spirit, Phaedrus, with his scientifically trained classic mind, was able to do more than just wring his hands with dismay, or run away, or condemn the whole situation broadside without offering any solutions.†   (source)
  • My skin is already covered in small brown spots, much to my grandmother's eternal dismay.†   (source)
  • I was stunned and dismayed, but Oliver took a more considered line.†   (source)
  • The questions burned into Jason's imagination as he watched in horror and dismay the scene taking place on the boulevard Lefebvre.†   (source)
  • Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.†   (source)
  • He was dismayed to see that Dart's eyes were filling with tears.†   (source)
  • I asked in dismay.†   (source)
  • But he wasn't overly dismayed.†   (source)
  • Dismayed, Joe said, "I don't want to add to your suffering—"†   (source)
  • Puller looked up at Cole in dismay.†   (source)
  • He replied by expressing dismay at my question.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Sham dismay).†   (source)
  • I was dismayed by my friend's conclusion.†   (source)
  • Her mother, who regarded her own feet with dismay, looked on Theresa's with horror.†   (source)
  • She was wearing the size nine-and-a-half fluffy purple slippers I'd given to her for her birthday; I had known when I bought them, little satin heels and feathery wisps like from a boa on the toe, that they were way out of character for her; in this picture with her gray tweed skirt, long gray sweater vest, face frozen in dismay, the contrast was grotesque.†   (source)
  • Tyler held up his hands in dismay.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, I've arrived in what seems half the usual time.†   (source)
  • Abby passed her to Red, who made a big show of dismay and ineptness but later was caught pressing his nose to her downy head, drawing in a long deep breath of baby smell.†   (source)
  • Ben had suggested that I stay the night with him, but, much to his dismay, I'd declined.†   (source)
  • Secretly I was glad, for I saw my father in him, although sometimes my husband worried that he showed no inclination for the land; but when one day he told me he was going to work in the tannery I was acutely dismayed.†   (source)
  • It steadfastly refused, as did the government of France, which had permitted the transfer of the painting to Israel from French soil, much to the dismay of the editorialists and the cultural elite.†   (source)
  • It is a proof that poetry can be equal to and true at the same time, an example of that completely adequate poetry which the Russian woman sought from Anna Akhmatova and which William Wordsworth produced at a corresponding moment of historical crisis and personal dismay almost exactly two hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • ROS is a little dismayed.†   (source)
  • It had surprised and impressed Commerce that his son had survived that first year, but it also dismayed him that there had been no fundamental change in his son's nature.†   (source)
  • And couldn't conceal his dismay at the sight of her.†   (source)
  • After this dismaying tour of the boneyard it was three days before I found time for another trip afield.†   (source)
  • The driver looked dumbfounded and then dismayed.†   (source)
  • He was dismayed.†   (source)
  • I was able to wipe the lipstick smear away from my face—a face which to my dismay had the cherry-red, boiled appearance of someone suffering from heat stroke.†   (source)
  • HELEN happens upon her skirt, clutches her leg; KATE in a tired dismay kneels to tidy her hair and soiled pinafore.†   (source)
  • He had always, as I realised with dismay, held fast to that idea of my faithfulness which years before he had seen in my hand.†   (source)
  • The thought of approaching the Supervisor directly filled him with dismay, but there seemed no alternative.†   (source)
  • Randy was dismayed at the thought of Dan, in his condition, loading his stomach with cold bream and catfish, orange juice, and remnants of salad.†   (source)
  • When the troops arrived nevertheless he did not conceal his dismay.†   (source)
  • MARY With amused dismay.†   (source)
  • She had not even until this moment, she realized with dismay, given Jay's mother a thought; she had been absorbed wholly in Jay.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head was dismayed but he only muttered, "You'll get your fill," and they walked on.†   (source)
  • "You sure-enough unroll your voice some night, it about reach up yonder to her," says Little Brother, dismayed.†   (source)
  • To their dismay, at a preliminary Republican caucus, six courageous Republicans indicated that the evidence so far introduced was not in their opinion sufficient to convict Johnson under the Articles of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • There had been dismay at the Guild.†   (source)
  • All her restlessness, her vague feelings of inadequacy, centered on him, and when she asked herself, in chilly dismay, why it should be he, rather than any of the other men she knew, there was no satisfactory reply.†   (source)
  • Then dismay fell on the Goblins and they fled in all directions.   (source)
    dismay = distress
  • Arrows came forth as soon as they were within shot, and they hastened back in dismay.   (source)
  • "O good-bye and go away!" grunted the dwarves, all the more angry because they were really filled with dismay at losing him.   (source)
  • All the fifth-class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly in dismay.   (source)
    dismay = worry
  • And he stood for a moment, hesitating, helpless with dismay.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent.   (source)
    dismay = sadness or distress
  • Then they escorted her to the ladder, and Jurgis heard her give an exclamation of dismay.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • All these things were going on now, and the family was helpless with dismay.   (source)
  • "Whatever has gone wrong now, Anne?" queried Marilla in doubt and dismay.   (source)
    dismay = sadness or worry
  • She felt no little dismay over the scene that had just been enacted.   (source)
    dismay = disappointment or worry
  • Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.   (source)
    dismayed = disappointed or worried
  • Jurgis and Ona heard these stories with dismay, for there was no telling when their own time might come.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • Then let any one imagine their dismay, when, after half an hour, they came in with a lawyer, and heard him greet the agent by his first name!   (source)
  • But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.   (source)
    dismay = disappointment or worry
  • Seven or eight people were gathered about it when Adams and his friend arrived, and Jurgis saw to his dismay that three of them were ladies.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • All at once, as it seemed, and to her secret dismay, she found that the old resentment she had cherished against him was gone—gone just when she most needed its sustaining power.   (source)
    dismay = disappointment or distress
  • Jurgis gave vent to a cry of dismay, cut off suddenly by the policeman, who seized him by the collar.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • And Jurgis gave a cry of dismay.   (source)
  • "Anne, you shouldn't say such things" rebuked Marilla, striving to overcome that unholy tendency to laughter which she was dismayed to find growing upon her.   (source)
    dismayed = sad or disappointed
  • Jurgis could be very obstinate when he wanted to, and he was in this case, much to the dismay of the women, who felt that a man-doctor was an impropriety, and that the matter really belonged to them.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • However, one morning Marija took her usual detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, filling the avenue solid for half a block.   (source)
  • Jurgis sat dumb with dismay.   (source)
  • Jurgis got home somehow, scarcely able to see for the pain, and with an awful terror in his soul, Elzbieta helped him into bed and bandaged his injured foot with cold water and tried hard not to let him see her dismay; when the rest came home at night she met them outside and told them, and they, too, put on a cheerful face, saying it would only be for a week or two, and that they would pull him through.   (source)
  • she exclaimed in a tone of dismay, as she put her hands up to something very heavy, and fitted tight all round her head.   (source)
    dismay = to feel or cause sadness, worry, or discouragement -- often in response to something surprising
  • She had been surprised and dismayed at the news of Lieutenant Awn's sudden return.†   (source)
  • And the Baudelaires certainly did not expect twittering birds or a butler, not after their dismaying arrival.†   (source)
  • She looked so dismayed, just for the shortest instant, that I thought my words had offended her in some way.†   (source)
  • "I can't talk about it," answered Lieutenant Awn, still staring up, dismayed and angry but not letting it reach her voice.†   (source)
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