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Former candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich watched, crest-fallen, from their respective hotel suites as Bush declared victory without ever being a formal candidate himself.
Don Ringe: Jeb: The Invisible Juggernaut Don Ringe 2012
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Former candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich watched, crest-fallen, from their respective hotel suites as Bush declared victory without ever being a formal candidate himself.
Don Ringe: Jeb: The Invisible Juggernaut Don Ringe 2012
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Former candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich watched, crest-fallen, from their respective hotel suites as Bush declared victory without ever being a formal candidate himself.
Don Ringe: Jeb: The Invisible Juggernaut Don Ringe 2012
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Former candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich watched, crest-fallen, from their respective hotel suites as Bush declared victory without ever being a formal candidate himself.
Don Ringe: Jeb: The Invisible Juggernaut Don Ringe 2012
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There will be a lot of crest-fallen physicists out there at the moment, realising that they've just spent a fat wad of their career on a whole bunch of wrong.
Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009
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With such condoling expressions he got the crest-fallen falconer to his bed, and then retired to his own pallet, where it was some time ere he could fall asleep.
The Abbot 2008
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The crest-fallen Chamberlain was preparing to depart; but Magdalen
The Abbot 2008
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So are all giddy girls, when it is too late: and what a crest-fallen figure then do the consequences of their self-willed obstinacy and headstrongness compel them to make!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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His companion, who partook of his panic, seeing matters brought to a very serious crisis, interposed with a crest-fallen countenance, assuring Sir Launcelot they had no intention to quarrel, and what they had done was entirely for the sake of the frolic.
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We threw him a rope, and presently he stood amongst us streaming with water and very crest-fallen.
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