dismals

“Now don’t let’s have any more dismals,” Mrs. Gainsborough begged.

"Here," said he, "here's what'll make you think different, and send away the dismals."

Oh, zounds! the dismals are coming upon me, and can't get a cheering glass to—holloa!

All of a sudden he said, half aloud, as if he had made up his mind,— "I might as well begin at once, and give the child something new to think about, for Myra's dismals and Jane's lectures have made her as blue as a little indigo bag."

She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues, dumps and dismals of any person I ever met.