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But, dod, I’ve got the dismals, And no mistake!

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

You are getting morbid, John," said Jasper; "you always were given to look on the dismals.

From How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

We've all been in the dismals long enough, but a marriage will set us all right again.

From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming

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 S. Emma E. Edmonds

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 Harriet Beecher Stowe




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