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

"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 Opie, Amelia Alderson

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

We've all been in the dismals long enough, but a marriage will set us all right again.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes

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