the dismals

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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

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

"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 Wood, Mrs. Henry

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher