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sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)
- The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.Chapter 7 (13% in)
- Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.Chapter 22 (3% in)
- If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay.Chapter 22 (99% in)
- At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence — after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone — I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy — dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure,...Chapter 32 (10% in)
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