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Example sentences for "chagrins"

Lexicographically close words:
chafing; chafts; chagan; chagrin; chagrined; chah; chai; chaidh; chain; chaine
  1. Chateaubriand, embittered by the chagrins of political life, welcomed her with the old enthusiasm.

  2. But what pains and chagrins were not compensated by the bit of lemon-colored ribbon and its small meed of distinction!

  3. No wonder the chagrins and continual disquietudes I live in should undermine and at length overturn the robustest constitution.

  4. I have not a high opinion of my services; but perhaps I am not mistaken in supposing that it would be more a shame to the King than to me if he should make me endure all manner of chagrins during my retirement.

  5. There are no chagrins so venomous as the chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening as the satieties of pleasure.

  6. He might be the most fortunate of men; and he is devoured by chagrins in his beautiful Palace here, in the middle of his gardens and of a brilliant Court.

  7. The natural mobility of her odd face, which repelled some and attracted others, needed at all times a certain check; but chagrins or satisfactions were both readily imprinted there.

  8. You have escaped "from the painful accidents and chagrins of individuation" (p.

  9. Chagrins enough are here: chagrins also were there.

  10. Perhaps a sudden tract of good fortune, on the back of all the chagrins I have made profession of ever since I entered this world, would have made me too proud.

  11. His book, when it is analysed, resolves itself into just that research for an escape from the painful accidents and chagrins of individuation, which is the ultimate of religion.


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