the dismals
Example Sentences
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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 L. T. Meade
I was simply trying to joke away the dismals!
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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 E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
He is the sort of man to give me the dismals.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
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 L. T. Meade
