I saw even Dongolese with bloody welts on their backs- Idris with each moment was possessed by greater disillusionment.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sometimes, as he sat at his deal table, fighting with a growing sense of disillusionment that was like nothing so much as a child's first discovery that its beautiful doll is stuffed with straw, he would wish passionately, vehemently for the return of those days when he had sat in his little bedroom writing "Reuben Hallard" with Norah Monogue, and dear Mr. Zanti and even taciturn little Gottfried, there to encourage him.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Then came the big disillusionment.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett