dismals

Example Sentences

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He only sat down, relieved, when Helene had signed to him that the child was in her dismals, as Rosalie was wont to say.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

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

Then what in the name of goodness are you going into the dismals for on this morning of all mornings.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.

"Don't try to put us in the dismals," said Jamie Dove, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and refilling that solace of his leisure hours.

From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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