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"Oh, Helen!" cried he, "how happy should I be if you would give over all your dismals, lay aside your scruples, and make me your slave for life, by undertaking this mild and modest part!"

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Amelia Alderson Opie

Gracious Heavens!" were the first words to be distinguished; "what a frightful old place; enough to make one die of the dismals!

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge

And when there comes a passenger among us, One who has heard what's stirring out beyond, 'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals!

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh

Well," said Murray, "I've got this promotion, and I'm not going to worry about dismals.

From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood

“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it. 

From The Observations of Henry by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome




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