dismays

• The hand of Providence is always a mysterious grasp of life that confuses and dismays, but it always rebuilds, restores, and prophesies The second Tabernacle was destroyed during a terrific thunderstorm. —  T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him
• It was mostly dismays, for it seemed to him that Elizabeth was as uncertain as the wind! —  The Iron Woman
• Fears, hopes, doubts, dismays, all dispersed in the presence of the reality Cup Day is always a general holiday in the Daleland, and every soul crowds over to Silverdale. —  Bob, Son of Battle
• When war dismays my barons bold, 'tis time for war to cease; —  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
• The King's favor, too, has that about it which dismays me, as if I knew it would be fatal to me. " —  Cinq Mars — Complete

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