dismals

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Such pretty employment in new dismals, when she had hardly worn round her blazing joyfuls!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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.

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

If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything.

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher