dismals
Example Sentences
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We've all been in the dismals long enough, but a marriage will set us all right again.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
Am I going to have an attack of the dismals? am I going to join the ranks of the snivellers?
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
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
Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
