dismals
Example Sentences
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Am I going to have an attack of the dismals? am I going to join the ranks of the snivellers?
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
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 Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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
"Don't try to put us in the dismals," said Jamie Dove, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and refilling that solace of his leisure hours.
From The Lighthouse by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
