the dismals

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Then what in the name of goodness are you going into the dismals for on this morning of all mornings.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.

"Don't try to put us in the dismals," said Jamie Dove, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and refilling that solace of his leisure hours.

From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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

I hope you will not think me in the dismals; but public and private judgments ought to be noticed by every one.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

Am I going to have an attack of the dismals? am I going to join the ranks of the snivellers?

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de