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  • Despite the inevitable pressure on the manager's position that kind of form brings, however, Cahill insists the Scot refused to get down-hearted.

    Bolton's win against Wigan gets Gary Cahill off the rollercoaster 2011

  • I could see at one point how the economic embargo had brought poverty to the people and made them down-hearted.

    Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White 2010

  • Fidel, tall, haggard, his clothes hanging more loosely than usual from his gaunt frame, walked soberly along, surrounded by thousands of likewise down-hearted, fearful people; he, like them, waving a tiny red, white and blue Cuban flag.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • Fidel, tall, haggard, his clothes hanging more loosely than usual from his gaunt frame, walked soberly along, surrounded by thousands of likewise down-hearted, fearful people; he, like them, waving a tiny red, white and blue Cuban flag.

    My Father's Birthday Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • I got so down-hearted and scared I did wish I had some company.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • So I don't see it happening and although that is a shame we shouldn't be too down-hearted as that's just the way the political game goes.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jeff 2009

  • So I don't see it happening and although that is a shame we shouldn't be too down-hearted as that's just the way the political game goes.

    A Cameron vs Brown TV Debate Jeff 2009

  • He writes, "not once have I seen him down-hearted or tired, nor has he responded with sullenness or rudeness to my own evil temper of these recent days.... his soft deep voice as soothing and pervasive as this southern wind."

    emerging WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008

  • He writes, "not once have I seen him down-hearted or tired, nor has he responded with sullenness or rudeness to my own evil temper of these recent days.... his soft deep voice as soothing and pervasive as this southern wind."

    Archive 2008-06-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008

  • The Lacedaemonians, on the other hand, were sorely down-hearted:

    Hellenica 2007

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