dismals

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry