"Disenchantment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the blood-relationship between her and the Masons? If for mere difficulty and opposition's sake there were really any fancy in her mind for this vulgar lad, perhaps after all it were the best thing to let her see enough of him for disenchantment! There are instincts that ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... and querulousness on her part came a further disenchantment, born of the inability of husband and wife to find a common ground of interest. The habits and migrations of the sand grouse, the folklore and customs of Tartars and Turkomans, the points of a Cossack pony—these ...
— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)
... in a throng of figures more august.[110] Diana, Bertha, Holda, Abundia, Befana, once beautiful and divine, the bringers of blessing while men slept, became demons haunting the drear of darkness with terror and ominous suggestion. The process of disenchantment must have been a long one, and none can say how soon it became complete. Perhaps we may take Heine's word ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... he so long ceased to be my friend?... But, after all, was he ever my friend? What a disenchantment! What a lesson!' ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... bespoke a practised hand beside a discerning taste. But his general air, none the less,—the expression of his figure and his motions, as well as of his face and voice,—was somehow that of an indolent melancholy, a kind of unresentful disenchantment, as if he had long ago perceived that cakes are mostly dough, and had accommodated himself to the perception with a regret ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
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