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Sentences ending with dismal

As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
A lot of these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it down enough to make it dismal. [5]
I do not know where to turn--I never have been down so low before, I never have seen things so dismal. [5]
It was the first I ever see it growing, and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. [5]
That's dismal. [5]

Short sentences using dismal

A dismal night, indeed! [12]
It was a dismal sight. [4]
It is a dismal business. [5]

Sentences containing dismal two or more times

It was dismal, indeed, but scarcely more dismal than that which followed; for at Bapaume we were on the edge of the battle-field of the Somme. [9]

More example sentences with the word dismal in them

Never worry people with; your contritions, nor with dismal views of politics or society. [6]
Certainly the place where these people fulfilled their office was dismal enough. [10]
Why, when we were in New York here on our wedding journey the place didn't seem half so dirty as it does now, and none of these dismal things happened. [8]
One night I was on the point of relating some dismal ghost story, just before bed-time. [14]
It was in truth a dismal sight,--the shapeless timbers, the corn, planted with such care, choked with weeds, and the poor utensils of the little family scattered and broken before the door-sill. [9]
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. [5]
As they come through the dismal passages, some officers of the jail who are in waiting there, congratulate him, in their rough way, on his release. [12]
It was in this same year, 1816, when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal, that he wrote to Brevoort, upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor: "We are all selfish beings. [4]
Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
Munich did seem the horriblest place, the most desolate place, the most unendurable place!--and the rooms were so small, the conveniences so meagre, and the porcelain stoves so grim, ghastly, dismal, intolerable! [5]
I meant in the beginning to say that railway journeying is tedious and tiresome, and so it is--though at the time I was thinking particularly of a dismal fifty-hour pilgrimage between New York and St. Louis. [5]
At the time that Mrs. Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt. [5]
I was naturally susceptible, and tried to form other attachments, but my heart would not hold on; it would continually recur to what it had lost; and whenever there was a pause in the hurry of novelty and excitement, I would sink into dismal dejection. [4]
Is this dismal superstition to overwhelm and bury the world and all that is bright and beautiful, as the lava stream rolled over the cities of Vesuvius? [10]
Because it was summer, when it is so beautiful out in the fields, the little town presented a particularly dismal appearance with its broken roofs and fences, its foul streets, tattered inhabitants, and the sick and drunken soldiers wandering about. [2]
Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. [5]
Breakfast in Fillmore Street, never a lively meal, was more dismal than usual that morning, eaten to the accompaniment of slopping water from the roofs on the pavement of the passage. [9]
Around the wounded stood crowds of soldier stretcher-bearers with dismal and attentive faces, whom the officers keeping order tried in vain to drive from the spot. [2]
I will not stay an hour longer than is necessary in this horrible place, which is as dismal as it is huge. [10]
From the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. [5]
They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away. [5]
The dismal situation sets us all into good spirits; and it is later than the night before when we crawl under our blankets, sure this time of a sound sleep, lulled by the storm and the rain resounding on the bark roof. [4]
Then came the second verse: "Far in the deep where darkness dwells, The land of horror and despair, Justice has built a dismal hell, And laid her stores of vengeance there. [6]
The solitude, he said, was rather dismal at first, but several other of the guests fell in, in the course of the evening, and they had, on the whole, a pleasant night of it. [4]
As the legend runs, a large white-bear, thinking, perhaps, that polar snows and dismal winter weather extended everywhere, took up his journey southward. [5]
The cold air refreshed the sufferer, and he told his aunt his dismal story. [5]
He began by referring to the hope with which he had come to St. John's, and the gradual realization that the church was a failure--a dismal failure when compared to the high ideal of her Master. [9]
No gas to read by--nothing but dismal candles. [5]
I will now put aside reasonings, guesses, the impressive hitchings of odds and ends of clues together, and the other showy theatricals of the detective trade, and tell you in a plain, straightforward way just how this dismal thing happened. [5]
Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper --hard-eyed, and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart. [5]
They receive high pay, but theirs is a dismal life, for they must live apart from their species, because their commerce with the dead defiles them, and any who should associate with them would share their defilement. [5]
There were few passengers astir; the street was sad and dismal, and pretty well my own. [12]
After dismal, smileless Palestine, beautiful Egypt had few charms for us. [5]
He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity. [5]
Such finery is out of place in this dismal ruinous city. [10]
Evening was drawing on, but had not closed in, when--still travelling among the same dismal objects--they came to a busy town. [12]
Gradually the light of this dismal day faded. [10]
But the solitude of the one is as cheerful and fascinating as the solitude of the other is dismal and repellant. [5]
The full glory of sunshine followed on the footsteps of night, like a triumphant chorus on a dismal mourning chant. [10]
But on account of his brothers, in this dismal wreck of a family connection, his soul was steeped in bitterness. [4]
At the close of each day's diary, the same dismal silence followed. [5]
The death-warning had nothing dismal about it for her; no, it was remission of exile, it was leave to come home. [5]
As a rule Noel Rainguesson was quite with Hireing to let the dismal matter alone; but not when the Paladin was present. [5]
And then at night, the melancholy wailing of the curlews, the dismal howling of dingoes, the discordant croaking of tree-frogs, might well shake the nerves of the solitary watcher. [5]
This was not news, but now it was seen to have been sorrowfully prophetic, and a profound sensation quivered through the hushed courtroom when those dismal words were repeated. [5]
He lacked the necessary reticence, and arsenic had not availed him, though it had tempted Billy Wantage to forgery; and because Billy hid himself behind the dismal opportunity of silence, had ruined the name of a dead man called Charley Steele. [11]
Advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom. [12]
Everything that surrounded me was so revolting and dismal that it will haunt my dreams with terror for weeks to come and spoil all my cheerful hours. [10]
He writes in March, expecting that the fate of the cabinet will be determined in a week, looking daily for decisive news from Paris, and fearing dismal tidings from Poland. [4]
I was so low-spirited at the station yesterday, and this morning, when I woke, I couldn't seem to accept the dismal truth that you were really gone, and the pleasant tramping and talking at an end. [5]
Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. [5]
You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges. [5]
If you think it ain't dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once--you'll see. [5]
But these little instances are trifles indeed, contrasted with the ponderous and dismal German system of piling jumbled compounds together. [5]
In the first instance Melampus, the tanner, a drunken swaggerer, who had failed in business, had marched up the street at the head of a tipsy crew, and pointing with his thyrsus to the dark, undecorated house, had shouted: "Look at that dismal barrack! [10]
Dyck was right in thinking that in the midshipmen's dismal berth the first flowers of revolt to his rule would bloom. [11]
Swiftly-changing visions broke in again and again on her sincerely devotional thoughts and her restless half-sleep, painting to her fancy now wondrously bright images, and now most horrible ones--now pictures of exquisite happiness, and again others of dismal melancholy. [10]
Eighteen years ago I was in London and I called at an Englishman's house on a bleak and foggy and dismal December afternoon to visit his wife and married daughter by appointment. [5]
Gaze upon him--ponder him well--and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them! [5]
However, she expressed herself very sorry to hear such a dismal account of her state of health, and shortly afterwards sat down with her grandfather and Mrs Jarley to breakfast. [12]
Meanwhile they were having a similarly dismal time at the Thompson house; in fact a twin experience. [5]
Reverence for the hallowed Past and its traditions keeps the dismal fashion in force now that the compulsion exists no longer. [5]
So we only groped through the dismal labyrinth of St. Callixtus, under the Church of St. Sebastian. [5]
It was a gloomy autumn evening, and he thought the old place had never looked so dismal as in its dreary twilight. [12]
Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently. [5]
I suppose that for as much as two hours these sad outcasts went clacking by, laden with their dismal effects, and all that time I sat pitying them. [5]
Then we had Florida and Texas; and now Kansas is about to be forced into the dismal procession. [7]
This is a fig-tree, which maintains a precarious footing among the rocks at the mouth of the dismal cavern once occupied by the veritable Witch of Endor. [5]
Outside, a dismal February rain was falling, a rain to wet the soul. [9]
The fascinating Mary Fairlie is at length married to Cooper, the tragedian, with the opposition of her parents, after a dismal courtship and a cloudy prospect of happiness. [4]
She, however, her eyes still beaming with happiness, laid her little hand coaxingly on his bearded mouth, and begged him not to sadden her high spirits and hopes of a better time by warnings and dismal forecasts. [10]
It contrasted strangely enough, did this vigorous and beautiful outcast, with its dead and dismal surroundings. [5]
He could not dwell upon dismal things; his voice rang out on the sharp sweet evening air: "'Oh, where did you get them, the bonny, bonny roses That blossom in your cheeks, and the morning in your eyes? [11]
This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries stationed on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle. [5]
We passed a dismal, crowded night in the room with such companions. [9]
This is their dismal idea of a welcome. [5]
There was a dismal horror continually in my mind, that made me fear to be alone. [4]
Now it is dismal enough to be blind--it is dreary, dreary life at best, but it can be largely ameliorated by finding something for these poor blind people to do with their hands. [5]
It was a dismal and heart-breaking time. [5]
It was a dismal and chilly business. [5]
This was a different thing from the ghastly march past the dismal bastilles. [5]
With what delight did Sirona inhale this pure atmosphere, when after a long night--the fourth that she had passed in the anchorite's dismal cave-she stepped out into the air. [10]
We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of "Monte Cristo. [5]
The Gould and Curry is only one single mine under there, among a great many others; yet the Gould and Curry's streets of dismal drifts and tunnels were five miles in extent, altogether, and its population five hundred miners. [5]
Lifted on a crest, our canoe, heavily laden, dropped at both ends; and again, sinking into the hollows between the short, brutal waves, her gunwales yielded outward, and her waist gaped in a dismal way. [11]
This kind of conversation did no good, further than to give a sort of dismal interest to our quarantine-breaking expedition, and so we dropped it. [5]
In the loving circle that surrounded her, death had made another gap which yawned before her, dismal and void. [10]
His attempt to cheer her out of it resulted in dismal failure, and consequently in a darkening of his own mood. [13]
A strange languor came over me, though I was wont to be so brisk, and with it a long train of dismal and hideous images. [10]
I just stuck by him--I haunted him--I never let him alone till he built it of mud and sticks like all the rest of the chimneys in this dismal country. [5]
It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. [5]
Presently, when things began to look dismal again, a desperado killed a man in a saloon and joy returned once more. [5]
Nothing could have been more dismal than our slow progress in the steady rain, through the deserted streets of this town. [9]
Straightway I alighted at the gate,--a dismal crevice hewn into the dripping rock. [4]
But I thought, as I stumbled along in the dismal actuality, that, if I ever got out of it, I would write a letter to the newspapers, exposing the whole thing. [4]
In this place are groups of rude and dismal idols. [5]
I heard it approach the door --pass out without moving bolt or lock--and wander away among the dismal corridors, straining the floors and joists till they creaked again as it passed--and then silence reigned once more. [5]
We missed one another," he said, and could not refrain from asking what was the matter, so strangely dismal and troubled was Rostov's face. [2]
They pay well and he had to sing dismal hymns for them behind a curtain; the wildest stuff, in which he does not follow a word, and that I do not understand a half of. [10]

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