dismals
Example Sentences
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Gracious Heavens!" were the first words to be distinguished; "what a frightful old place; enough to make one die of the dismals!
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The spleen, the vapors, the dismals, the horrors seem to have seized our whole State.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl 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)
But, dod, I’ve got the dismals, And no mistake!
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
