They entered the little gray house again, just in time to hear remonstrative squeaks from the E string of the diminutive violin, blended with disheartened moans from the A and growls of protest from the G string.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
At length when almost disheartened and I had stood my loaf against the side of a house to cool, I recognized a familiar voice back of me, and George appeared on his wheel to announce that my party had camped in a young orchard two miles outside of Rebais, neither man nor beast being capable of going any farther.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
But they are gloomy and disheartened.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs