dismals
Example Sentences
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I was simply trying to joke away the dismals!
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.
From The Observations of Henry by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
I hope you will not think me in the dismals; but public and private judgments ought to be noticed by every one.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
