dismals
Example Sentences
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If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Am I going to have an attack of the dismals? am I going to join the ranks of the snivellers?
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
"Oh, Helen!" cried he, "how happy should I be if you would give over all your dismals, lay aside your scruples, and make me your slave for life, by undertaking this mild and modest part!"
From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson
You are getting morbid, John," said Jasper; "you always were given to look on the dismals.
From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.
"Don't try to put us in the dismals," said Jamie Dove, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and refilling that solace of his leisure hours.
From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
