dismals
Example Sentences
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She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues, dumps and dismals of any person I ever met.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
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
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
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 Meade, L. T.
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 Fleming, May Agnes
