If your estate has resisted longer than those of your neighbors the demoralizing influences that are now at work here, you owe it to Mary.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The "little bow" has usually a demoralizing effect.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The Convention passed the following resolution: "That we call upon our countrymen abroad to withhold all assistance from the promoters of a useless, degrading and demoralizing policy until such times as the members of the Irish Parliamentary Party substitute for it the policy of the Hungarian Deputies of 1861, and, refusing to attend the British Parliament or to recognize its right to legislate for Ireland, remain at home to help in promoting Ireland's interests and to aid in guarding its national rights."
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry