cast down
verbe- To make (a person) discouraged or dejected.
- To overthrow, to defeat or bring to ruin.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cast, down.
Dans la bibliothèque
But do not be cast down.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
I must not be cast down by the discovery that I have been deceived.
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