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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

"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 Mrs. Henry Wood

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 L. T. Meade

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 Émile Zola

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




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