dismals
Example Sentences
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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 L. T. Meade
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
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
But, dod, I’ve got the dismals, And no mistake!
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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 E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas