dismals
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
"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
