the dismals
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But, dod, I’ve got the dismals, And no mistake!
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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
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
