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Updated: May 22, 2025
As J.W. turned to the church yard lane leading up to the old horseshed, he noticed that there were only two cars there besides his own and one old-time sidebar buggy, battered and mud-bedaubed, with a decrepit and dejected-looking gray mare between the shafts. It was time for meeting, and he contrasted to-day's emptiness of the long sheds with the crowding vehicles of his childhood memories.
He made a cautious survey of the premises; then, opening a back window, he seized a small bottle by the neck and hurled it savagely against the brick wall opposite. The snow, which had begun as an insignificant flurry in the morning, developed into a storm by afternoon. Four miles from town, in a dreary stretch of country, a dejected-looking object tramped along the railroad-track.
Gulo slouched on, head down, back humped, tail low, a most dejected-looking, out-at-heels tramp of the wilderness. Once he came upon a wild cat laying scientific siege to a party of grouse. The grouse were nowhere to be seen; nor was the wild cat, after Gulo announced his intention to break his neutrality. Gulo knew where the grouse were. He dug down into the snow, and came upon a tunnel.
Perhaps it is as well that you did not know before, for it could not have been rectified; you cannot bring a pair of tongs and a spirit-lamp out of your pocket and begin operations in public! Still it is exceedingly aggravating if you think you have been making an impression, and you return home to confront such a dejected-looking spectacle as you find in your mirror. I am wandering again.
In a few minutes more I saw poor little Anna follow her up the steps that led into 'Scorpion Cove. When we were released Hag was serving ragged and dejected-looking men with gin and beer. Anna, she said when I inquired, had gone to a good home in the country. I loved her ardently, and being lonesome was not content with the statement of the old woman.
One of them always brought a black-varnished canvas bag with him, not respectably stiff like leather a puckered, dejected-looking bag. It was deposited in the washing place to be out of the way of the sun. At one o'clock it was brought out and emptied of its contents, which were usually a cold chop and a piece of bread.
Scarcely had she disappeared when an empty donkey-cart came round the turn of the lane, led by a rather dejected-looking middle-aged man, whose countenance, nevertheless, had for some time back been gradually clearing up at every wind of the way that brought him nearer to this particular point of view.
As we drew ashore I noticed that an Indian path led directly inland. Leaving our dug-out moored with a fibre rope to a large mangrove tree, we started to thread our way through the forest, and finally reached a clearing. Here we came upon a crowd of almost naked and extremely dejected-looking women. Many of these, catching sight of me, sped into the jungle like frightened deer.
He was thinking of this as he passed one of the best houses he had seen a place where, in a rough courtyard, armed men were grouped with their camels and horses. There was a great covered well in the centre, with dejected-looking men busy drawing water, and through the open windows of the low terraced house he had glimpses of the turbaned, white-robed occupants.
And with the files of dejected-looking slaves, yoked together in their heavy wooden forks, or chained only, the whole caravan, numbering now some six hundred souls, moves onward.
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