Dispirited Sentence Examples

Avoiding the drop now looked to be beyond a very dispirited outfit.

The defenders were dispirited and torn by sedition and dissensions, and the emperor could rely on little more than 8000 fighting men, while the assailants, 200,000 strong, were animated by the wildest fanatical zeal.

She found the maestro towards the end of 1837 dispirited by a temporary eclipse of popularity and in the first stage of his fatal malady, and carried him off to winter with her in the south.

The whole force under his orders when he escaped from Pamplona on the night of the 29th of October 1833, and took the command next day in the Val de Araquil, was a few hundred ill-armed and dispirited guerrilleros.

He was proclaimed king at Carlisle, joined by the earl of Derby in Lancashire, evaded the troops of Lambert and Harrison in Cheshire, marched through Shropshire, meeting with a rebuff at Shrewsbury, and entered Worcester with a small, tired and dispirited force of only 16,000 men (22nd of August).

Some of Rupert's foot regiments made their way to York, but the dispirited garrison only held out for a fortnight.

The pretender led off his horde to meet the relieving force, but when he reached Taunton he found that his followers were so dispirited that disaster was certain.

Now I was pleased to be thinking of my homeward journey even tho I was a bit dispirited by my painful condition.

But I have spent several hours with these books and became increasingly dispirited.

The second half was more of the same with the Huddersfield players guilty of wasting possession, perhaps looking a little dispirited.

But our lady, the cook, with true British pluck, was not dispirited.

I was feeling pretty dispirited, lacking in both enthusiasm and energy, and was forced to stop several times during the climb.

The troops, meanwhile, stood growing listless and dispirited.

The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.

When Washington, in the autumn of 1776, was no longer able to hold the lower Hudson he retreated across New Jersey to the Delaware near Trenton and seizing every boat for miles up the river he placed his dispirited troops on the opposite side and left the pursuing army no means of crossing.

The success of the frontal assault had dispirited the remainder of the defenders, and Menshikov drew off his forces southwards.

The Langobards, German in their faults and in their strength, but coarser, at least at first, than the Germans whom the Italians had known, the Goths of Theodoric and Totila, found themselves continually in the presence of a subject population very different from anything which the other Teutonic conquerors met with among the provincials - like them, exhausted, dispirited, unwarlike, but with the remains and memory of a great civilization round them, intelligent, subtle, sensitive, feeling themselves infinitely superior in experience and knowledge to the rough barbarians whom they could not fight, and capable of hatred such as only cultivated races can nourish.