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1 And most waitresses are discouraging sort of girls.
2 The stranger hesitated: there was a discouraging sort of coldness in the mode of delivering this answer that seemed to prejudge his proposition.
3 This makes a discouraging sort of prospect for the beetle who is hunting for something good to eat, not sand to walk over.
4 He indeed had the most discouraging sort of search for a publisher; but at last a young printer of Salem promised to undertake the work.
5 "You're a discouraging sort of person," the Colonel declared irritably.
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