dismals
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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 Samuel Richardson
Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
"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
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 S. Emma E. Edmonds
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