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[…]
