dismals
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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)
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
The worst miss of all to me is, that, when we are in the dismals, there is now no hope of relief from any quarter whatsoever.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
