With his composure he survived every attempt to discountenance him. From LearnThat.org.
Brigadier to discountenance any charges of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
If unhappily thrown among them, discountenance them to the utmost. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
He has stationed himself there merely to watch and discountenance her. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Above all things, let us discountenance the agitation of exciting topics. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
(Kerry had invited her to supper) she said nothing which could discountenance such a belief. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
Who has made it his constant Endeavour to discountenance the Odium in which Informers are held?. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766] Reference
He not only would not appoint kinsmen to office; he would discountenance their appointment by others. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
We entirely discountenance any tampering with the eye itself, with a view to giving it luster or brightness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
American conservatives never exclude those who discountenance transcendent perspectives, but we tend to live by them. From Wordnik.com. [Buckley Athwart History] Reference
LUSTRUM, however, or even to the happiest YEAR, it may be allowed to any man to point without discountenance from wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Every girl has a work to do for the boys, -- some traits in their characters to discountenance, some features to encourage. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
You promise to respect genuine brethren and discountenance impostors, and all dissenters from the original plan of Masonry. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
Nevertheless, let me advise you, my dear Miss Clary, to discountenance any visits, which, with the censorious, may affect your character. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I would willingly go to that extent; and if any thing further can be devised to discountenance the trade, consistent with the terms of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Let them discountenance all extreme innovations, from whatsoever quarter they may proceed, or by whatsoever distinguished names they may be sanctioned. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
The waste of time, revelling, and immorality connected with the custom have led many to discountenance it; and it is, to a considerable extent, given up. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Now, it is, I believe, true that Nash endeavoured to discountenance the wearing swords at Bath; but it is certain that they were commonly worn twenty or thirty years later. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850] Reference
It must be admitted that appearances did not wholly discountenance this idea; Madame seemed so bent on retaining his services, so oblivious of her former protégé, Pillule. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
No form of travel or undertaking could discountenance Mark Twain at thirty. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference
Distinctly does she discountenance leaps in the dark, wild driving, and the freaks of. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
He would not allow stone-flinging, because it was a habit of his to discountenance it. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
Distinctly does she discountenance leaps in the dark, wild driving, and the freaks of Radicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
She advised the public to discountenance such reports, saying: "They are not to be taken seriously.". From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
"So, discountenance any form of false rumours being spread by mischievous characters in this country.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
For her own sake, she shrank from hearing intentions, that distressing the good man, she would have to discountenance. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Her meetings with Percy Dacier were therefore hardly shunned; and his behaviour did not warn her to discountenance them. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
You are aware that men's faith in a woman whom her sisters discountenance, and partially repudiate, is uneasy, however deeply they may be charmed. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
There was nothing that Pythagoras was more fixed to discountenance, than the communication of the truths upon which he placed the highest value, to the uninitiated. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
He told his father that he had adopted high principles, and was determined to discountenance everything low and mean; advised him to eschew trade, and to purchase him. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
But it is supposed that the discountenance of the Court sunk deep into his heart, and gave him more discontent than the applauses or tenderness of his friends could overpower. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
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