dismals
Example Sentences
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He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
And when there comes a passenger among us, One who has heard what's stirring out beyond, 'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals!
From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir
The worst miss of all to me is, that, when we are in the dismals, there is now no hope of relief from any quarter whatsoever.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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.
He concluded that she was not out of her mind, that she had simply had a fit of the dismals, and dismissed the matter.
From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.