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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The crest-fallen Chamberlain was preparing to depart; but Magdalen

    The Abbot 2008

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • We threw him a rope, and presently he stood amongst us streaming with water and very crest-fallen.

    Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

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