"Discourage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come for examination previous to his receiving his first communion. The pastor, knowing that his young friend was not very profound in his theology, and not wishing to discourage him, or keep him from the table unless compelled to do so, began by asking what he thought a safe question, and what would give him confidence. So he took the Old Testament, and asked him, in reference to the Mosaic law, how many commandments there ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... blamed herself so to have pained another sister's love. "And she's so quiet," added the speaker, "but, oh, so pale—and so hard either to comfort or encourage, or even to discourage. There's nothing you can say that she isn't already heart-sick of saying herself, to herself, and I beg you, dear, in your longing to comfort her, please don't bring up a single maybe-this or maybe-that; any hope, I mean, founded on a ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... nothing, for he realized that without his magic tools he could do no more than any other person. But there was no use reminding his companions of that fact; it might discourage them. ...
— The Lost Princess of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... call sometimes to see how your ward does," he said good-humoredly to the elder Mr. Grahame, but to Michael not a word. He had determined to discourage, and, if possible, completely to overthrow any intimacy which Mr. Grahame had acknowledged to him was not unattended with danger. Mr. Trevanion was a man of liberal mind, yet he was not wholly free from the prejudices of his class, which ...
— Evenings at Donaldson Manor - Or, The Christmas Guest • Maria J. McIntosh
... laugh at you and try to discourage you, Morgan. I'm the standing joke of this country because I still stick to my theory ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden
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