The next morning at sun-rise saw me on my march, with what appearance of gaiety I could muster, but in reality very much chopfallen at my banishment, and invoking sundry things upon the devoted head of the Colonel, which he would by no means consider as "blessings."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Nick looked chopfallen when he heard this large increase on his original bid, and hesitated to continue, but finally mustered up courage to say, in a rather feeble tone: "Five and a quarter."
"The Young Musician or, Fighting His Way"
Horatio Alger
With his pen occasionally peeping pertly out of his bushy hair over his right ear, and his yard-measure in his hand, no one, till the previous Monday morning, had been more cheerful, smirking, and nimble than Tittlebat Titmouse: alas, how chopfallen now!
"Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1."
Samuel Warren