dismals
Example Sentences
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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
He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
I hope you will not think me in the dismals; but public and private judgments ought to be noticed by every one.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
"Oh, Helen!" cried he, "how happy should I be if you would give over all your dismals, lay aside your scruples, and make me your slave for life, by undertaking this mild and modest part!"
From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson
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.
