dismals
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"Here," said he, "here's what'll make you think different, and send away the dismals."
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
The spleen, the vapors, the dismals, the horrors seem to have seized our whole State.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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
He only sat down, relieved, when Helene had signed to him that the child was in her dismals, as Rosalie was wont to say.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
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