dismals
Example Sentences
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The spleen, the vapors, the dismals, the horrors seem to have seized our whole State.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
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 Meade, L. T.
Grace persuaded him to stay to luncheon, and he did, and tried to win Miss Rose out of the dismals, and got incontinently snubbed for his pains.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.
From The Observations of Henry by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
I was simply trying to joke away the dismals!
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
