dismals

Example Sentences

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He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

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.

“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)

She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues, dumps and dismals of any person I ever met.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.

"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)