dismals

Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise – cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

Such pretty employment in new dismals, when she had hardly worn round her blazing joyfuls!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The weather has kept us cooped up here for the best part of a week and has plunged us both into the dismals.

Unforgiven Balogh, Mary 1998

Perhaps he wished to hear that she was in a fit of the dismals so that he could know the satisfaction of thinking that it served her right.

The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

Even Randolph always such a steady chap — was in a fit of the dismals from the moment they left Westford.

The English Witch Chase, Loretta 1988

She looked blank, but her dismals vanished at once.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

In any event, I didn't sleep well after Whampoa's party, and was in a fine fit of the dismals next day, as a result of which Elspeth and I quarrelled, and she wept and sulked until Solomon came to propose a picnic on the other side of the island.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

I hope you will not think me in the dismals, but publick and private judgments ought to be noticed by every one.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 - 10 September 1775 1963

New tracts of lands would be cultivated upon the Canal margin, and, encouraged by the State's example the proprietors of all the great unimproved tracts of Swamp lands will form themselves into Drainage Companies, by which method alone can we ever hope to witness the complete reclamation of the dismals of the seaboard.

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908

A random survey was also made from a deep part of Lake Matamuskeet opposite James McLowd's house, to East Bluff Bay and triangles were thrown across East and West Bluff Bars whereby the direction and length of Canals between them and the lake might be determined with all sufficient exactness; avoiding thus the difficulties of penetrating the dismals which would have rendered it impossible to complete the survey before the reopening of

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908