dismals
Example Sentences
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“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.
From The Observations of Henry by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Am I going to have an attack of the dismals? am I going to join the ranks of the snivellers?
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
The spleen, the vapors, the dismals, the horrors seem to have seized our whole State.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
"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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
