disappoint

"I don't want to disappoint you, young fellow," he continued, "but I heard from your Brigadier only yesterday.

I choose to give the Tredowen estates away, to disappoint my next of kin.

'You see, Clennam,' he happened to remark in the course of conversation one day, when they were walking near the Cottage within a week of the marriage, 'I am a disappointed man.

"Not disappointed in him, but in my own feeling; I had expected more.

Gradgrind, knitting his brow, 'that the result of your probation there has disappointed me; has greatly disappointed me.

Venus was much disappointed and again caused her to return to her former shape.

He has been disappointed of some friends' arrival whom he expected to meet here, and as he is now pretty well, is in a hurry to get home."

Among all the spectators whom Van Baerle's execution had attracted to the Buytenhof, and whom the sudden turn of affairs had disagreeably surprised, undoubtedly the one most disappointed was a certain respectably dressed burgher, who from early morning had made such a good use of his feet and elbows that he at last was separated from the scaffold only by the file of soldiers which surrounded it.

I was not very disappointed. For two years I had studied, and in those two years, what was far more valuable, I had done a prodigious amount of reading.

The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man.

Her sister was slightly offended; but the event proved Matilda was right: the disappointed lover performed his pastoral duties as usual.

Lynde says, `Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."