Citations:depression

English citations of depression

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• 1808, William Henry Hitchener, Ivor; Or, The Sighs of Ulla: A Tragedy ..., page 19:

  Edg . I've sometimes noticed a depression on him , That ever and anon does shake his peace . Sometimes I've mark'd him , with his arms entwin'd , Stalking most wildly ! suddenly he'd stopThen seem in conversation with himself : Then […]

• 1997, Walker A. Tompkins, Flaming Canyon, Thomas t Beeler, →ISBN:

  Roxanna's death had put a blight on him and her legacy , the half - revealed enigma of her past as Bix Herrod's wife , laid a depression on him which found its surcease only in hard physical work . He saw Doc Godette buying supplies […]

• 1888, Michael Theophile Hubert Perelaer, Baboe Dalima: Or, The Opium Fiend, page 99:

  But the fit of depression was on him , his nerves were again beginning to play tricks with him , his mental powers were , as usual after prolonged abstinence , growing confused - in short he was bordering on that stage in which he would […]

• 2010 August 4, Evelyn Wright, What About My Life?, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 50:

  His job was offered back to him although it was not driving a school bus. I guess the looks he got at work and the whispering did not help his mind. The depression was on him all along, but nothing anyone could do to help him.

• 2012 June 4, Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician, eNet Press, →ISBN, page 509:

  Lucanus put aside the letter, and the heavy sickness of heart and depression was on him again, the huge repudiation. He, as a physician, believed he knew what had happened to Ramus. He had seen what he had wished to see; the hysteria […]

• 2021 November 5, William Hamilton Osborne, The Running Fight, Good Press:

  The three days' confinement in a cell had left its traces on the multi-millionaire: a terrible depression was on him, his shoulders were hunched, and his eyes lustreless. With Leslie, of course, there was no such great change, […]

• 1911, Robert Hugh Benson, None Other Gods, page 89:

  When he awoke next morning , the depression was on him still ; and it was not lifted by the apparition of Gertie on which he opened his eyes from his corner , in an amazingly dirty petticoat , barearmed , with her hair in a thick untidy […]