dismals
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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
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
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
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 L. T. Meade
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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