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Sentence Examples The quick intervention in the supply of farm inputs by Government after the dismal performance by the private sector has saved the situation. The future looked dismal due to the lack of spare tires and a dwindling oxygen supply. In the midst of all the dismal circumambience we still can have hope and can afford to smile. He struggled through a dismal start after losing his hot young passer in an exhibition game. The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains. Almost every decade some dismal group of self-proclaimed patriots mobilises to repel a new invasion or subversive threat. For those with decadent dreams and a dismal credit rating, the following advice will warm the cockles of your heart. Corruption takes root when donors expect failure and recipients know that dismal performance will bring no adverse consequences. The folderol that followed was rather dismal, with angry conservative politicians threatening to reform the judiciary. Thus, when one side was bathed in light and warmth, the other would be a cold, dismal place shrouded in darkness. Luke is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal company that imports cloth. Those bright patches of colour certainly stand out from the dismal grounds of the estate. What can one say about this dismal situation in an editorial or a commentary? The Web was a dismal place for ingesting information because it was visually bereft, difficult to move around in, and generally unpleasant. The police have a success rate in interdicting the flow of arms that is even more dismal than the recent record of the West Indies cricket team. And they are anxious about dismal public transport, dirty public conveniences, rip-off days out and restaurants that are anti-children. As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue. He shoots the boardroom scenes in dismal office-grade lighting, showing every crease and crinkle on the stressed faces within the room. We got back a week ago quite dismal at having to leave Italy, and are slowly getting used to the frowsiness of our glorious country. A dismal week for Wales brought down the curtain on the era of that great player, but who will replace him? Show More Sentences The game ended with Town having another try disallowed on full time just to seal a dismal day. His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable. Part of the dismal run is the team's porous defence which has conceded an incredible 52 goals in 29 matches. The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans. Soon the dismal, dark skies over Heathrow had given way to a brilliant blue, with the sun glinting on Concorde's delta wings. Doctors attribute the dismal treatment rate to the fact that many depressed people do not recognize their symptoms. As they sat on gray folding chairs in the desert wasteland, the war seemed to be in dismal shape. Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel. Yet, it was dire, dismal, as dreary as the grey mist that enveloped the new stadium for the duration of the game. A polar jet stream appears to be the cause of the dismal weather, say the experts. Little wavelets came up around his feet, oily and silent in this dismal weather. She'd been walking so long she barely noticed the cold and damp, the sticking mud and the dismal weather. It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather. Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather. It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies. One idea is pushing election day back into October, to spare voters going to the polls in dismal weather. No one's mood was helped by the dismal weather outdoors, the sky was grey and the wind was blasting. Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party. He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans. And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own. Show More Sentences That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually. Ali led me up a narrow path way lined with trees and brush, to a small cabin that looked desolated and dismal. The dismal weather for much of the week was no help and there were times when Tralee Racecourse was a drab place to be. The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating. Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me. Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora. If these really are the views of those around him, one fears he must run with a rather dismal crowd. It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place. In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died. For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best. After the past 10 days in the spotlight, internal morale for the 200 STB staff is dismal. These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President. The club partly blamed crashing out of Europe to Feyenoord, which went on to win the UEFA Cup, for the dismal figures. Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout. We were dismal in the Hong Kong history round, but did satisfactorily in current events. The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures. The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure. Our effort to tame nature so that the temperature is always comfortable has been a dismal failure. We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many. These are dismal figures, forcing the people of Taiwan to face the cruel reality of an economic winter. Show More Sentences This year's campaign will follow the dismal showing of 2004 where the event didn't even get off the ground because of a lack of interest. But this is the limit of the good news to be dredged from a dismal couple of days in Brussels. This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance. America and Japan also had fairly strong growth, although Western Europe had a more dismal performance. First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep. The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance. I can tell you, I was in a very poor mood for quite a while due to the dismal turnout. The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance. The dismal science says, when essential stuff is scarce, you've got to trade something for something else. That dreadful outlook is one of the reasons economics is considered a dismal science. To the economy, and every cloud has a silver lining, they say, but in the dismal science, as they call economics, the opposite is often true. As UK television churns out dismal sitcoms and docusoaps, the nation that invented trash TV is taking risks and winning. As the end of 1999 approached, consistently dismal domestic and export coal loadings gave the nation's ports little reason to cheer. It was also a dismal store and the concept of trying to serve both upmarket and downmarket clients was never going to work. Most conventional discussions of the Exodusters focus on the dismal conditions and subjugation that prompted a mass movement. We knew we were in for a lashing from the press because to lose to the USA made us the laughing stocks of the game and really it was dismal. The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries. It was an inappropriate appointment, in that it was clearly a dismal waste of his extravagant talents. Usually he'd put a smile on his face during a meeting like this, but instead he wore a very dismal expression. With no rewards in the writing, the cinematography, and dismal acting, that's asking way too much. Show More Sentences I think everyone agrees that Warren has done a dismal job of being a Big Brother secret agent. Afternoon turned into evening, evening into a dismal, dark, rainswept night. So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house. It was a dismal campaign characterised by public apathy and political evasiveness. It was strange to her how much the scenery had changed, from eerie and dismal to lush and dark. At one stage, only the dismal form of whipping boys Caerphilly looked capable of saving them from the indignity of a winless season. Recalling that dismal time, Iris stared at the crystal stem of her wine glass. Thompson, who has a badly bruised foot and limped from the dismal fray early in the second-half on Tuesday, could be out for two weeks. Transfer tax consequences, forced liquidation and business failures are among the dismal results of poor succession planning. The market has been tainted with poor quality products, dismal performance and overwhelming disappointment. Although the celebration will be as muted as a saxophone full of scalloped potatoes considering his dismal last place finish in a field of two. Over the past couple of weeks many expert ideas have been bandied around connected with Sri Lanka's dismal showing in South Africa. His bronze was Britain's third medal of the Games, sealing a remarkable turnaround in fortune after a dismal first week. The company blamed its dismal performance on, of all things, Valentine's Day falling on a Friday. Even though investor sentiment seems to be downright dismal, it may still not be dismal enough. A 1969 survey had turned up a dismal count of just 21 tuis and 24 bellbirds for the entire island. Why should members bother to belong to an organisation that negotiates such a dismal contract? The dismal showing detailed by the institute plays no part in this reconstructed history. Coming into the final Grand Slam of a dismal season, Sampras had been knocked out early in a tune-up event, but refused to hang his head. The twentieth century has received a dismal press and, for the most part, deservedly so. Show More Sentences I sniffle to a halt, and blow my nose messily on the handkerchief in my pocket, and fold it back in, dismal. As uncharismatic and incompetent as William Hague, Britain's former Conservative Leader may have been, his successor could be even more dismal. Despite his first shot only travelling a dismal 30 yards, the golfer was undeterred and played nearly a third of his rounds in the rain. I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair. Indeed, by the end of last year, a season in which he slumped to a dismal 133rd on the money list, he had lost his right to even play in Europe. Selby Town slumped to their first home defeat since October following a dismal display against Denaby United. Letting famous film directors direct operas has resulted in both smashing successes and dismal failures. It was dark and dismal by early afternoon, lights projected star-rays on the street, unreally. They would also be appalled by our enormous national debt and the dismal status of our huge welfare programs. Eight matches were lost due to the referee problem and two because of unseasonal weather, getting the season off to a dismal and difficult start. Just take a look at the dismal performance of our boxers against boxers from other provinces. Angel hadn't realized that a person could sound so dismal outside of a soap opera. There's the dismal frame rate, which is up and down like a bride's nightie. For many bulls, this is one ray of hope in the economy's overall dismal picture. The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business. There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be. However, the by-elections involved real votes and real people, and the results are no less dismal for them. Spring will get off to a dismal start today with gales, hailstones and thunder storms. Brief, chatty and digestible, the book should refute the old canard that economics is dismal. Bouton, who assesses the dismal prospects for conversion of African slaves in six pages, devotes two entire chapters to the Carib Indians. Show More Sentences None of the Tablet PCs on the stocks fall into that category, not even the Crusoe prototype, which claims dismal endurance of four hours. Evidence for the dismal state of the public health services is well documented. Even by the dismal standards of modern political oratory, it was desperate stuff. The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country. Britain has followed the same dismal pattern, with Chelsea tractors making up one in seven of all automobiles sold in London. I'd just got back from a very damp and dismal trip to Taunton station, chauffeuring Graham to catch the train back to London, and I was feeling a little down. But aging stars, a dismal season, and dissension in the front office are dragging the franchise down. A team that was already depressed over its dreadfully dismal season now must mourn the loss of its very popular owner. Part of the explanation for this dismal record of non-rescue is our capacity for willed blindness. The shady lava lamp in the corner of the room supplied a dismal crimson light, the bubbly pink shimmers on the wall fell onto his flaccid, ageless, sweaty body. It was 1976, and the family had been living in the dismal town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero. Several artillery regiments in Hackensack and Ridgefield Park were shelling zombie positions in Englewood and the Teaneck gold course, but the armory's fate was dismal. But there was still a paper to get out in Washington, and I went there late in the afternoon to tackle the dismal job. Ryan McGarry M.D., director of the documentary Code Black, addresses the dismal state of urgent care. The laws of economics are on the side of the liberalisers, and whatever drawbacks the dictates of the dismal science may have, moral outrage is not one of them. Was it that the insult was directed at child, including one who was among the feel-good stories of otherwise dismal season? If the dismal finances persist, some carriers may try to unlock the value of their miles programs by spinning them off as separate publicly traded companies. Well, she obviously doesn't believe that economics is the dismal science. This is nowhere near as dismal as it sounds, because they include payroll bureaux representing 5,000 companies, so a total of 6 million employees is now covered. Given the dismal state of nonpublic higher education, the government should establish a special task force that would consider relevant experience of other countries. Show More Sentences On a fatal journey back to England a storm rocked his ship and as the crew and dismal captain bailed water from the ship, an amazing thing happened for John. In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably. Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends. That's a long way from the top-notch victories he served up a few years ago, but it's a darn sight better than the dismal showings he's had the last two years. It made the dusty, dismal main street of Bleak seem somewhat melancholy. Perhaps it's because the Spanish love their country so much that they don't fancy the cold, dismal UK and realise our streets are not paved with gold. Many of today's shooters have tried shooting these old rifles and experienced dismal results when the bullets failed to expand properly and obturate the bore. Just one exhibition of more than 20 that make up this year's Mois de la Photo, World Press Photo contains no shortage of similarly dismal captures. I laughed despite my dismal mood and felt better than I had all night. It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it. His most recent films, execrable turkeys have achieved the seemingly impossible by being even crasser and less watchable than their dismal predecessors. And the desserts are an oddly dismal lot, from an apple pie in which the fruit is stiff, the crust sodden, to a stodgy strawberry shortcake on hard, stale biscuits. Governments are rightly faulted for their dismal economic performance. However, one staff member told the Western People that although the mood is dismal at the plant, the staff realise that it is not just them who will lose out. It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency. This is one of the dismal things about the dismal science of economics. The symbolic suitability of dark and dismal weather, however, is not the main reason Mary Shelley selected this particular month for the nativity of Victor's charnel creature. Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos. Passengers at Haymarket station are sustained in their long vigils by the wit of a waggish train announcer who does his best to bring cheer to their dismal existences. Let the reader picture to himself the open coffin with the corpse of the lovely girl, surrounded by the hired mourners singing their dismal De profundis in hoarse voices. Show More Sentences Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing. I had a hard time being in a dismal mood when Riley was with me. By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks dismal. The cod's the best bit here, but in nutritional terms, it trails a dismal second to oily varieties of fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, mackerel and swordfish. I was disappointed to see very few contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings. The dismal mumblings of everyday business in the House of Commons, the creaking pomposity of the Lords, the ghastly flummery of the state opening are overlooked. But it is this hybridity that makes the show a dismal failure. But in my office, when I have nothing to do, the world seems do dismal, pointless and punishing that it can be hard to remember flowers and sunshine. He must be aghast at England's dismal results, even if he does not blame Robinson for the lack of a global vision for the defence of the world title. It is not surprising, given this picture, that economics became known as the dismal science, since the only equilibrium situation was one of subsistence wages. What at first seems simply a deft homage comes to assume a dismal complexity. Authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner make the dismal science a lot less dismal by regaling readers with one counterintuitive economic analysis after another. At the scrag end of a dismal first period, he ripped a 20-yarder across the startled Mark Bosnich which hit the right-hand post. I've argued that we cannot rely on the justice system to control crime and that our recent attempt to do so has been a dismal failure. Though a number of Keaton's early talkies made impressive profits, they were artistically dismal. As an older volunteer, learning Setswana was extremely difficult for me, especially with the dismal state of the training. In this list of presidents with dismal tastes, he's in a league of his own with his love for New England clam chowder. In Tibet, expect Buddhist monks and bar-room mama-sans, breathtaking lamaseries and dismal new office blocks. Pakistan overcame a dismal start in the tournament to eventually defeat England by 22 runs in the final and emerge as winners. At the Belgian Grand Prix Button again had a dismal showing and was taken out by Romain Grosjean on the first lap. Show More Sentences Pigs roam among the abandoned houses and Tenby presents a dismal spectacle. United had led the table for much of the season before a run of dismal results in April saw them overtaken by the West Yorkshire side. His monologue stopped abruptly with a sharp noise like a thundercrack that rolled in dreary echoes round the dismal mere. A tremendous Lee Mills bomb in the 33rd minute was not enough for Portsmouth to improve on their dismal away record. But the track record of disruptive owners in Japan is pretty dismal. She has immense white teeth that snap, and a bugly bonnet, with one dismal ostrich feather wobbling sternly on end. Ridgewell simply had a dismal evening, finding Villa's pacier players way too sharp and sprightly. He is not a brilliant geostrategist, and his understanding of economics is dismal. Then again, the track record of Democrats is a dismal disappointment, too. Viasma on the other hand, presented as dismal a scene as we had any where witnessed. Nearly all the large houses were gutted and burnt. Mahonias also have the advantage of tolerating shady conditions, thus even the most dismal corner of the garden can be livened up. Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued. A MILLS bomb was not enough for Portsmouth to improve on their dismal away performances as Town's home-grown strikers hit back in a super second-half display. But there was no sign of intrepidness from Miodrag Radulovic's men, instead confusion, insouciance and ineptitude defined their quite dismal display. And that is where the picture is still so dismayingly bleak and dismal. Number-crunchers have analysed the statistics for all of West Ham's games in their dismal season, with their last two matches showing an increase in work rate. Eugene's visual arts world, too, got even drabber when Opus VII closed its doors in April, continuing a dismal trend for galleries here over the past few years. But it looks like the intense interest is already on the wane Stateside, after magazines sporting bride-to-be Kate Middleton as the cover girl reported dismal sales. By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. Examples from Classical Literature It was this way of looking at things that gave to political economy the name of the dismal science. But even he who has read only thus far must know that political economy is no cold-blooded or dismal science, as people say. The storm cloud of dissension still hung threateningly, and the future looked black and dismal. They assembled themselves together of set purpose to be lively, and they were infectiously dismal. My first night in this dismal and strangely ordered house had opened anything but propitiously. Men buy and sell their millions, subsidize states, and raise loans in dens dark and dismal enough to be prison-cells. If Bellerophon had been told truly, it was in one of those dismal valleys that the hideous chimaera had taken up its abode. These dismal shells, when they burst in the air, were like the fireworks at a fte. To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill! The inflow of white blood was small, and much of what did come lost itself in the dismal swamp of miscegenation. The katydid has ceased again her dismal song, and long since the cat slunk away behind the grape-trellis to seek new fields. Some of the most dismal quarters of the town are colonised by her disciples and professors. He wished Home might always wear such a dismal veil of dampness, scirocco, and cloud. His business was to wale dismal, and bow his head down, the band playin slow and melancholly moosic. Thus we learned the dismal place to which your noble daughter had been so perfidiously ensnared. Pedro obeyed, but shortly after returned with a most dismal and elongated visage. Many a dismal and unhappy tale might be wrought out of its other adventures. The trees were scraggy, loppy old things hanging down in dismal sweep over the leaky roof and damp walls. It was then, for much of its distance, rather a dismal stream, sluggishly winding through marshes lined with alders. Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties. Show More Sentences The dismal Hecate did not much like the idea of going abroad into the sunny world. Not forgotten was that long and dismal stretch where buffalo chips were the only fuel. Everything seemed to be going on so propitiously that Dainty cast her dismal forebodings to the winds. He blamed the dismal science for the dismal facts and for the inadequacies of its classic expounders. I have travelled a bit, first and last, but nothing more dismal than an American ice-cream parlor do I remember to have seen. The Indians informed him that all the region below consisted of dismal, endless, uninhabitable swamps. It would have been dismal to add idleness and unsettledness to the discouragement caused by such a beginning of our voyage. Then she thought of Dad, and though still dismal, unwished the wish, and was content to remain a girl. Its loud, dismal, booming note probably assisted in the formation of the bunyip legends of the blacks. Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. Farewell to the dismal, blood-red phantom of martial renown! A lot of these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it down enough to make it dismal. It was a dismal hour for the proud court of the doughty governor. His answer was not cheering to my spirits, for it consisted of two dismal words, 'With whopping. Then the lighter sand and ash came down in turn, stretching like a winding sheet and smoking over the dismal scene. The interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom. The toothlessness in front of goal that currently seems to be afflicting Paul Lambert's side is the key to their dismal home form, I think. This dismal performance in promoting economic freedom has resulted in low standards of living in the region. The dismal occurrence of the night, and the dismal narrations they had made, had left a superstitious feeling in every mind. The only chair that dismal room contained was occupied by Kenneth. Show More Sentences It was too dismal to confess he had not collected a kopeck or one recruit. The network of dismal streets stretching over the surrounding neighborhood contains a population for the most part of the poorer order. More than any other event does stranding bring to the sailor a sense of utter and dismal failure. Tuberculous meningitis is a frequent cause of meningitis in South Africa and has a dismal prognosis. I'm wretched, woeful, afflicted, distressed and dismal as an individual can be. However, they love it, and the dismal piano beats a tinny accompaniment. Though the night was dark and dismal, yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained. It was a dismal service, with its dreary sermon and its tuneless hymns. Once more he heard the dismal cry, and fancied it held a mocking note. He spent a dismal day in town and did not recover his spirits until the evening, when he was seated in his compartment in the Brittany express. The opening day was a dismal, rainy, fall day, just verging on winter. At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. Bisley is a beautiful place, but Woking cemetery is a dismal neighbour. Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have. Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. It is a sort of steady, persistent, overwhelming, endlessly driving downpour, which makes your heart sick, and opens it to dismal forebodings. In the time of Pliny it had become a dismal and silent place. But Hester could not resolve the query, using herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt. But these little instances are trifles indeed, contrasted with the ponderous and dismal German system of piling jumbled compounds together. I even fancied that I heard the expiring sighs of those who, like myself, had come into this dismal place alive. Show More Sentences It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. His mind was full of dismal presentiments, whether from mysterious dreams, or the intimations of the medicine wolf, does not appear. There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became. When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest woods the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. She felt a dismal suspicion that this was going to daunt her. Not so with our old Inspector One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences. But the solitude of the one is as cheerful and fascinating as the solitude of the other is dismal and repellant. He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity. But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. This illuminated the entire room, but in a partial and dismal manner. History and the dismal science had interested him immensely. Nothing can be more dismal or dispiriting than the fearful uproar. It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless. This sci-fi actioner is insufferably sufferably dismal, depressing and dull. Here he was at least, and had been any time these past ten years, a sort of dismal parasite upon the foreigner in Paris. And the siren sent its dismal blasts out into the grayness all about. Then came the dismal thought of winter, begotten of the idea of fires. It was a dismal reminder of his boyhood at Sidon and Tasajara. It allowed him to go to South Africa, knowing that even a monumentally dismal tournament would not affect the two years remaining on his PS6million-a-season contract. Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet. Show More Sentences It will be a heavy responsibility, cousin, if you confine your brother to this dismal house and stifled air, when the delightful freedom of my country-seat is at his command. Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse. He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous. A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. For, though it be to solitudes remote The hoarse vague echoes of my sorrows sound Thy matchless cruelty, my dismal fate Shall carry them to all the spacious world. Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret. The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. We need not seek in dismal church-yards nor sleep in moated granges to see the shadowy faces and hear the rustling of their garments in the night. It is habitually hard upon Sir Leicester, whose countenance it greenly mottles in the manner of sage-cheese and in whose aristocratic system it effects a dismal revolution. Pickwick, edging a little from the balustrade, as the possibility of the dismal man's tipping him over, by way of experiment, occurred to him rather forcibly. Gathering the mangled bodies of the slain, and strapping them across their pack-horses, the warriors returned, in dismal procession, to the village. We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us. All that a sick man, irritated by suffering, can add of melancholy suppositions to probabilities already gloomy, Athos heaped up during the early hours of this dismal night. In this state, the waiter's dismal intelligence about the ships immediately connected itself, without any effort of my volition, with my uneasiness about Ham. A few lawyers' clerks and others who know this suitor by sight linger on the chance of his furnishing some fun and enlivening the dismal weather a little. As I stood looking down upon that sad and lonely mound, wrapped in the most dismal of reflections and premonitions, I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. Our debt to the Basel Museum would have been greater if it had sent us his Pyramus and Thisbe or Cephalus and Procris rather than yet another dismal scene of decapitation. I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses, that I had ever seen. Find more words! 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