| 1. | .' He noticed my companion, and became crestfallen all at once. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | Fogg, offering his arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfallen Passepartout. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 3. | He looked so crestfallen and abashed that I felt quite sorry, though I still thought my rebuke a just and wise one. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | But as he approached his mother-in-law, he responded in a mournful and crestfallen tone to her inquiries about Dolly's health. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Kitty had no need to ask Varenka she saw from the calm and somewhat crestfallen faces of both that her plans had not come off. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | "Yes, perhaps I ought to mention," said Herbert, who had become curiously crestfallen and meek, since we entered on the interesting theme, "that she is rather below my mother's nonsensical family notions. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |