dismals
Example Sentences
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Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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
“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.
From The Observations of Henry by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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 Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir
"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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
