Protect them from downheartedness - and from diseases of the eye. From Wordnik.com. [For Those Whose Work Is Invisible] Reference
When I rehash my situation, I hear the downheartedness in my voice. From Wordnik.com. [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
There was still often a sense of longing, a hint of surprise, or even downheartedness mixed with triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Roy Orbison: A Great Voice, A Lonely Sound] Reference
Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
There is no more pregnant a "reviver" of downheartedness than letters from the old people, nor is anything more liable to inspire the "pip" than the absence of such personal touches with familiar scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
At first she could scarcely believe that this was the cause of his downheartedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference
When the first days of downheartedness were over, and at sight of the danger which threatened. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2] Reference
At these words all Lisbeth's downheartedness vanished, and she felt only how festive and cozy it was to be at home again. From Wordnik.com. [Lisbeth Longfrock] Reference
I did not in that first moment of utter downheartedness so much as inquire the reason for the trick which had been played upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Stone House and Other Stories] Reference
For how is it not absurd, if whilst removing another's downheartedness, thou art thyself downhearted? for so thou no longer sufferest it to be alms. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Some downheartedness about a poor project outcome was probably inevitable, but it would have helped if there had been some empathy for the IT team, he says. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from Computerworld] Reference
They no doubt expected that he would soon establish his Messianic kingdom on earth, Hence their utter disappointment and downheartedness after the crucifixion. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John] Reference
A strange moodiness had come over her, and even with him at home she had at times given way to fits of downheartedness which seemed altogether alien to her nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference
For if thou art downhearted because thou hast delivered another from downheartedness, thou furnishest an example of extreme cruelty and inhumanity; for it were better not to deliver him, than so to deliver him. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
"How cums it as I be all changed like, as tho 'sum un had tuk and rubbed all the downheartedness out o' me?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
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