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The captain helped her ashore, but it was a most uncheerful outlook.

From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The voice was not uncheerful; it had that serenity which comes of duties honestly performed and a life tolerably free from sordid anxiety.

From Demos by George Gissing

Ah! there, lying back once more in the easy chair, in a dress which— "China's gayest art had dyed," do you think that self-satisfied, but still uncheerful looking face tells of happiness?

From The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

That could be explained in part by the fact that uncheerful letters could not pass the German but could pass the British censor.

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by George Pearson

The scene was curious, but by no means uncheerful.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various