chopfallen

• “The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “The Stockingtonians were chopfallen, but they were angry and dogged; and”

  International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850

• “Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked.”

  The Spinner's Book of Fiction

• “General McClellan had very generously provided them with provisions for three days, and wagons to carry the sick and wounded; and so, footsore, weary, and chopfallen, they go over the hills.”

  The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

• “I turned to Hawkins -- a chopfallen, cowering huddle of filth, standing upon two pearl-and-black legs -- and said:”

  Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures

• “The latter had shrunk up in his chair and was looking as chopfallen and guilty as a dog caught sucking eggs.”

  Cappy Ricks Retires

• “It was just as well that "Dora" Eweword had been too chopfallen to come in, for we found the place in what grandma termed "a uproar.”

  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

• “Tetlow, chopfallen but obdurate, got himself speedily out of sight.”

  Grain of Dust.

• “Then seeing him chopfallen and aghast, she went on: ` ` Of course you don't know!”

  The Conquest of Canaan

• “In that moment of cruel memory, of ghastly chopfallen vanity, it was all she could do not visibly to shrink from him.”

  The Second Generation

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