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He lay in the nest for several hours, lost somewhere between fury and dejection, exhausted but unable to sleep
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A picture of utter dejection
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Hunting up some food, the young badger sat eating, his body slumped in dejection
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Dejection is an understandable emotion and probably, by itself, would have been acceptable
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His head was in his hands and there was something in his whole attitude that spoke of weariness and dejection
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Ashes: Turning from sins; devastation; total death of the old life; consumed; mourning; sorrow; dejection; victory over hardship; to be worthless;
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As time went by, the myth faded into our misery and our dejection
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In 1984, while Roger was enduring the most disappointing and humbling dejection of his diversified existence, the opportunity presented itself for him to take on a challenge that would eventually revive and transform his life once again
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At length, having received nothing else, in a state of dejection, he started back to his tent
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dejection and disappointments stare you in the face
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Dejection topped by the new knowledge of Donovan’s infidelity
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Dejection hung heavy in her voice, and Michael had the urge to
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chest with a mixture of pain, dejection and tears forming deep
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Dejection weighed on every muscle and bone as he put away the mats, changed back into school uniform and mounted the stairs
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7ANDERING TO THE LIFT THEY ALL FELT A SENSE OF CONCERN AND DEJECTION THAT 4AYLOR WASNT
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Were Vivek to persist, wouldn’t she give in then to him? Wouldn't his youthful exuberance attract her in her state of dejection? More so, how long could she resist his overriding passion?
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As he made his way back up the tunnel to the main cavern, a feeling of dejection and complete loss came over him
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His gray head hung down with dejection
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I didn’t plan this, nor did I question that I had not chosen it, because my dejection had reached the sub-atomic level
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Terence, rather embarrassed by her manners, followed obediently, his shoulders slouched in dejection at an unsuccessful evening of attempting to escape
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Seeing that these individuals, with the exception of the pompous English couple, were largely removed from the affairs that to them hardly existed on the other side of the ocean, Preacher Cooper frowned and looked towards the ground in disappointment and dejection
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Her long hair hung limply at her shoulders that sagged in apparent dejection at having been apprehended
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still don’t think it’s for me,” he concluded with a sense of dejection
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and dejection in her voice
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“It wasn’t that,” Alex said reassuringly but with dejection
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“Oh my God, Alex!” Thomas shook his head in dejection and
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“Yeah,” Alex answered with a trace of dejection in his tone, “go
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dejection, but not today
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with dejection in his tone
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“Thanks, my dear,” he said, his dejection obvious
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He looked at Wickland and shook his head with dejection
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Looking toward the floor in what could only be interpreted as dejection, Mr
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“I don’t know,” Wickland said with dejection
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“We didn’t find a thing,” Wickland said with dejection
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“I don’t know,” he said with a sense of dejection and defeat
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David walked back to the house-office, trying to hide his dejection
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of dejection assailed Michael's mind
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Shocked did Mahmud the Hindus into dejection, as Romila Thapar picks up the historical debris of Somnath thus:
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As it is I’m forced to watch dejection
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’ Hearing the dejection in my voice, I gulped down the rest of the tea, if it could be called that
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Norah felt the sting of his frustrated dejection
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” Urit said with frustration, dejection, and anger
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hands on her legs, the picture of total dejection and surrender
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As for the believer, when the devil approaches them with his whispering, they feel his temptations and insinuations and suffer from heartache and dejection
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Tell me, what mood were you in when you wrote? Was it not, apart from its dejection, one rather inclined to peevishness? You ask, for instance, why I write so much about a tipsy trumpeter when I know you are anxious to hear about the other things I never tell you
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But before your kind letter came a few fresh autumn mornings had cleared a good deal of my first dejection away
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After his meeting with Sunaina he had gone into a state of dejection and packed his things straight away, once and for all, to go as far as possible from the New Delhi and Sunaina
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There was no cart, he said, absolutely none; and the Professor, in a state of fuming dejection, was forced to what resignation he could muster
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The mayor's face sagged in dejection as he contemplated the consequence of his negligence to more fully evaluate the woman's background
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Leaving the community with apparent dejection, Eugene and I make our way to Emmons Avenue, to the exact place where we caused the last car crash
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It only adds to my dejection
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The gloom and dejection of the couple"s disappearance faded in his presence
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I won"t go into all the ridiculous details of this love affair, which was a result of dejection and loneliness but will just tell you that eventually I broke up with him
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" Ant was the picture of dejection; from
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I sat on my horse in dejection as I stared at the three tribal leaders who yet refused to go with me
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Save your child from the influence of the crime on the streets; protect them from the filth of depression and dejection
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The pale, sombre face lighted up for a moment when his mother and sister entered, but this only gave it a look of more intense suffering, in place of its listless dejection
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Sonia was standing with her hands and her head hanging in terrible dejection
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"A man confessed to murder and how he kept it up! It was a regular hallucination; he brought forward facts, he imposed upon everyone and why? He had been partly, but only partly, unintentionally the cause of a murder and when he knew that he had given the murderers the opportunity, he sank into dejection, it got on his mind and turned his brain, he began imagining things and he persuaded himself that he was the murderer
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It is impossible to conceive Cervantes giving way to despondency or prostrated by dejection
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His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly printed on all faces of Jewish race without exception
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The great point is that everything now is going to be different, is going to be broken in two," he cried, suddenly returning to his dejection
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Sonia was standing in dejection, looking intently out of the window, but from it she could see nothing but the unwhitewashed blank wall of the next house
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Don Quixote now rose, and putting his left hand to his mouth to keep his teeth from falling out altogether, with the other he laid hold of the bridle of Rocinante, who had never stirred from his master's side--so loyal and well-behaved was he--and betook himself to where the squire stood leaning over his ass with his hand to his cheek, like one in deep dejection
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Behold his dejection, poverty, death
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"Where, Sancho?" replied Don Quixote; "turn thine eyes and look, and thou wilt see stretched there a knight-errant, who, it strikes me, is not over and above happy, for I saw him fling himself off his horse and throw himself on the ground with a certain air of dejection, and his armour rattled as he fell
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The duchess observed his dejection and asked him why he was melancholy; because, she said, if it was for the loss of Sancho, there were squires, duennas, and damsels in her house who would wait upon him to his full satisfaction
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"The cause of my dejection," returned Don Quixote, "is not that I have fallen into thy hands, O valiant Roque, whose fame is bounded by no limits on earth, but that my carelessness should have been so great that thy soldiers should have caught me unbridled, when it is my duty, according to the rule of knight-errantry which I profess, to be always on the alert and at all times my own sentinel; for let me tell thee, great Roque, had they found me on my horse, with my lance and shield, it would not have been very easy for them to reduce me to submission, for I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, he who hath filled the whole world with his achievements
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For-whether it was of the dejection the thought of his defeat produced, or of heaven's will that so ordered it--a fever settled upon him and kept him in his bed for six days, during which he was often visited by his friends the curate, the bachelor, and the barber, while his good squire Sancho Panza never quitted his bedside
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Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection
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all the marks of the most thorough dejection, they employed themselves
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returned to me, though I still retained an air of grief, dejection, and
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way, terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh,
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As it was a raw evening, and I was cold, I thought I would comfort myself with dinner at once; and as I had hours of dejection and solitude before me if I went home to the Temple, I thought I would afterwards go to the play
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Profound dejection was depicted on the countenances of those assembled slave-drivers as they listened to the delegates' report
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Hopkins's brow was clouded, and he sat down with an air of deep dejection
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manhood, now lank, unstiffened, becalmed, and flapping against his thighs, down which it reached half way, terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh, which naturally followed his eyes, by turns, cast down towards his struck standard, or piteously lifted to Louisa, seemed to require at her hands what he had so sensibly parted from to her, and now ruefully missed
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It was Levin’s face, with his scowling brows, and his kind eyes looking out in dark dejection below them, as he stood listening to her father, and glancing at her and at Vronsky
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Neither hides nor dynamite—and the very shoulders of the enterprising Israelite expressed dejection
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In the sudden pauses the excited grimacing of the faces would sink all at once into the stillness of profound dejection
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Crossing his lawn I saw that his front door was still open and he was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep
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He observed her dejection one day, when he had casually mentioned something to her about pastoral life in ancient Greece
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Nevertheless, they had been so absolutely tricked that they were bound to suffer a certain dejection
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Ser Kyle’s shoulders were slumped in dejection, but he looked up at Dunk’s approach
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speaker’s voice- which sometimes almost broke- or those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own dejection and hopelessness)- at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, regeneration, and return to life
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With painful dejection he awaited the end of this action, in which he regarded himself as a participant and which he was unable to arrest
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At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection
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He lived in the Marais in a more and more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection
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Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness