dismals

Example Sentences

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Then what in the name of goodness are you going into the dismals for on this morning of all mornings.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.

But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

Auntie’s ill and in bed, Rosalind and Roger are spooning about in the grounds, Armstrong’s got the dismals, and the governor’s not to be disturbed.

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Such pretty employment in new dismals, when she had hardly worn round her blazing joyfuls!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel