the dismals
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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 Kock, Charles Paul de
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 Adams, Abigail
Grace persuaded him to stay to luncheon, and he did, and tried to win Miss Rose out of the dismals, and got incontinently snubbed for his pains.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
Gracious Heavens!" were the first words to be distinguished; "what a frightful old place; enough to make one die of the dismals!
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
