dismals
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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
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
Well," said Murray, "I've got this promotion, and I'm not going to worry about dismals.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
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
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 Samuel Richardson
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