What is "discouragement"

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A short account of Jenny Jones, with the difficulties and discouragements which may attend young women in the pursuit of learning Mrs.

He, Enderby, was encircled by discouragement, and when, as from her with the divine black ass and the other attributes of magnetism, he was granted encouragement it was in the direction of the further bemerding of poor Will, more, the whole of his spacious age.

Could he have seen the discouragement of the Boers and the preparations which they had made for retirement, he would have held his ground.

Smith at this time, when the discords and discouragements of the colony were fully known.

The boldest thinker may have his moments of languor and discouragement, when he feels as if he could willingly exchange faiths with the old beldame crossing herself at the cathedral-door,-- nay, that, if he could drop all coherent thought, and lie in the flowery meadow with the brown-eyed solemnly unthinking cattle, looking up to the sky, and all their simple consciousness staining itself blue, then down to the grass, and life turning to a mere greenness, blended with confused scents of herbs,--no individual mind-movement such as men are teased with, but the great calm cattlesense of all time and all places that know the milky smell of herds, --if he could be like these, he would be content to be driven home by the cow-boy, and share the grassy banquet of the king of ancient Babylon.

Her heart was set on performing her promise to Tom and Aunt Chloe, and she sighed as discouragements thickened around her.

When he left the bridge of Saints-Peres for the Place du Carrousel this surveillance ceased, and he could then indulge freely in reflection--at least as freely as his trouble and discouragement permitted.

The same indomitable spirit that kept him from despair in the bagnios of Algiers, and prompted him to attempt the escape of himself and his comrades again and again, made him persevere in spite of failure and discouragement in his efforts to win the ear of the public as a dramatist.

They overdid flattery, which she was used to and tolerated, but which cheapened the admirer in her estimation, and now and then betrayed her into an expression which made him aware of the fact, and was a discouragement to aggressive amiability.

But by some strange play of emotion, in proportion as the proofs that Faria, had not been deceived became stronger, so did his heart give way, and a feeling of discouragement stole over him.

The tone was not hostile, but sounded a note of formal discouragement as if to give notice that one’.

And as a last attempt at discouragement, she wound her hands harassedly around one another and murmured, "I hope he doesn't take too long.

I have felt it to be a part of my mission – under a gracious Providence to impress my sable brothers in this country with the conviction that, notwithstanding the ten thousand discouragements and the powerful hinderances, which beset their existence in this country – notwithstanding the blood-written history of Africa, and her children, from whom we have descended, or the clouds and darkness (whose stillness and gloom are made only more awful by wrathful thunder and lightning) now overshadowing them – progress is yet possible, and bright skies shall yet shine upon their pathway.

Them dark mangrove walls closing out the world, with the empty Everglades to eastward where the sun rose, and that empty Gulf out to the west where the sun set, the silence and miskeeters and the loneliness, the heavy gray of land and sea during the rains, the knowing that all you hoed and built, so much hard work and discouragement for years and years, could be washed away by storm in a single night—put that together with the fear that any stranger glimpsed around some point of river might be the man who called himself John Smith, come to take your life.

That reluctance, that lukewarmness, he had attributed to a natural habit of discouragement.