dismay

• The Irishman's astonishment ceased now, but his dismay was as great as ever Then is it alone you're going?" —  The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
• The passage in the letter which produced this dismay was as follows:--"He has left to Madame Goesler twenty thousand pounds and all his jewels. —  Phineas Redux
• And let the dismay which is mine explain the lack of ceremony in this writing It is not likely that thou hast forgotten the good Queen Neferari Thermuthis' foster-son--the Hebrew Mesu, whom she found adrift in a basket on Nilus. —  The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
• He may indeed afterwards_, when his fear is passed off, contemplate the circumstance that occasioned it with a different feeling; but the object of his dismay is then projected, as it were, completely from himself; and he feels the sublimity in a contemplative state: he can feel it in no other. —  Lectures on Art
• As he ate he spoke, and his first words provoked an exclamation of dismay from the Frenchman, which was hastily smothered with a murmured apology, and then Diana became aware that others had come into the room. —  The Sheik

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