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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 Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Oh, Helen!" cried he, "how happy should I be if you would give over all your dismals, lay aside your scruples, and make me your slave for life, by undertaking this mild and modest part!"

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Amelia Alderson Opie

Grace persuaded him to stay to luncheon, and he did, and tried to win Miss Rose out of the dismals, and got incontinently snubbed for his pains.

From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

You are getting morbid, John," said Jasper; "you always were given to look on the dismals.

From How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade




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