All 10 Uses
dismay
in
Anne Of Green Gables
(Edited)
- She felt no little dismay over the scene that had just been enacted.
p. 64.6dismay = disappointment or worry
- But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.
p. 71.1
- Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.
p. 72.5dismayed = disappointed or worried
- "Whatever has gone wrong now, Anne?" queried Marilla in doubt and dismay.
p. 123.1dismay = sadness or worry
- "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.
p. 126.6dismayed = sad or disappointed
- All the fifth-class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly in dismay.
p. 179.9dismay = 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.
p. 180.4 *dismayed = worried
- 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.
p. 239.3dismay = disappointment or distress
- Anne felt a queer little sensation of dismayed surprise. She had not known this; she had expected that Gilbert would be going to Redmond also.
p. 283.2dismayed = disappointed or saddened
- For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent.
p. 293.8dismay = sadness or distress
Definitions:
-
(1)
(dismay) to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)