dismals
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Zola, Émile
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 Adams, Abigail
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 Adams, Abigail
