"Downhearted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... same time two women must hold her shoulders so that she may strain out the foetus more easily; and to facilitate this let one stroke or press the upper part of her stomach gently and by degrees. The woman herself must not be nervous or downhearted, but courageous, and forcing herself by straining and ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous
... and well and feeling as right as rain, Now we're all together; never mind the weather, Since here we are again, When there's trouble brewing; when there's something doing, Are we downhearted. No! let them all come! Here we are, here we ...
— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill
... look downhearted, master, for I knows someone as'll give you a rare warm welcome if so be as you should change your mind and take your chance in the ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... taking his hand, "you're too much downhearted; come to us, but first go to my father; I know you'll find it hard to deal with him. Never mind that; whatever he offers you, close wid him, an' take my word for it that my mother and I between us will make ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... undreamed of. And Christina Lindsay, remembering when that day came, this Temperance meeting, recalled with self-abasement that she had thought that Gavin Grant could not have chosen a song more unlike himself; he, so shy and shrinking to sing of "A Warrior Bold." If she had not been so downhearted she would have laughed ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
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