dismals
Example Sentences
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"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
He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
We've all been in the dismals long enough, but a marriage will set us all right again.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
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
She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues, dumps and dismals of any person I ever met.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
