"Disappoint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not treat me a bit like a 'bad boy,' as I supposed she would," he thought; "but appears to take it for granted that I shall be a gentleman in this her house, and a sensible fellow in her husband's office. Blow me if I disappoint her!" ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... the Prison Ordinary, who persuaded him to sign his name to a lying confession of guilt, drawn up in accordance with a foolish and inexorable tradition, and to deliver such a last dying speech as would not disappoint the mob. ...
— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley
... arrived, but I am sorry to say that (I believe for the first time in our transactions) I shall have to disappoint you. ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... truth? The bottles circulated freely at Mr. Farnaby's table—I began to wonder whether he was quite sober. I said I was sorry to disappoint him, but I really did not know what my family ...
— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins
... as we far outnumber them in cavalry." At the same time he gave them notice to be ready for battle on the day following, and since the opportunity which they had so often wished for was now arrived, not to disappoint the opinion generally entertained of their ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar
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