dismals

Example Sentences

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You are getting morbid, John," said Jasper; "you always were given to look on the dismals.

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.

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 Edmonds, S. Emma E.

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 Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

"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)

"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 Opie, Amelia Alderson