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Sentences ending with dreary

It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. [4]
After breakfast the next morning we went into the parlour-car, but found it a dull place and dreary. [5]
His old dreams had been so pleasant; but this reality was so dreary! [5]
Those who have gone blind since they were twenty years old --their lives are unendingly dreary. [5]
It is solitude, for birds and squirrels on the shore and fishes in the water are all the creatures that are near to make it otherwise, but it is not the sort of solitude to make one dreary. [5]
It seemed far enough away, and very hopeless and dreary. [5]
The days drifted by, and they grew ever more dreary. [5]
No prospect would be more dreary. [4]

Short sentences using dreary

Another lingering dreary night--and hunger. [5]

Sentences containing dreary two or more times

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]

More example sentences with the word dreary in them

They spoke together with a strange inconsistency, in whispers; unwilling to disturb again the dreary echoes they had just now raised. [12]
I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
And the world which she had seen afar, filled with sunlit palaces, seemed very dark and dreary to her to-night. [9]
The thought of what may be to come grows more familiar to my mind; but it is a sad, dreary guest. [14]
So the sounds were yet more dreary than the silence which they interrupted. [5]
To the east were the dreary wastes of Labrador, to the west were the desolate plains and hills, stretching to the valley of the Saskatchewan. [11]
The Masonic dinners were dull and dreary when he was not there. [2]
The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. [5]
It is frequently water-logged till late in the summer: invisible a part of the year, when it emerges it is mostly a dreary flat. [4]
Among the stories was one told by a dreary narrator named Ben Coon. [5]
So it was warm and snug within, though bleak and raw without; it was light and bright within, though outside it was as dark and dreary as if the world had been lit with Hartford gas. [5]
There is nothing usually so dreary as your fine Palace. [4]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
Subjects are the trouble--the dreary lack of them, I mean. [5]
I was confined to bed a week,--a dreary week. [14]
Tom's heart ached to be free, or else to have something of interest to do to pass the dreary time. [5]
Night fell as though a blanket had been spread over the tree-tops, and above the dreary splashing men could be heard calling to one another in the darkness. [9]
And when you think of the leagues of blighted, blasted, sandy, rocky, sun-burnt, ugly, dreary, infamous country you have ridden over to get here, you think it is the most beautiful, beautiful picture that ever human eyes rested upon in all the broad universe! [5]
In days like these, when the old ache again attacked him, Barbara and her singing had brightened the dreary gloom and lessened the pain, or she had caressed and sung it entirely away. [10]
Morning after morning the sun rose in a moist, heavy atmosphere; day after day went in a quest which became dreary, and night after night settled upon discontent. [11]
And I heard the step, the buzz and whirl of the spindle, and the monotonous and dreary hum of the mournful wheel. [4]
The splendours of the scene delighted his eye and fired his imagination at first, but the audience was long and dreary, and so were most of the addresses --wherefore, what began as a pleasure grew into weariness and home-sickness by-and-by. [5]
The prizes are the same dreary, old, fading bay wreaths. [4]
They reach even the poor relation, whose dreary apparition saddens the perfumed atmosphere of the sumptuous drawing-room. [6]
One day, when the mining partners were following the specks of gold that led to a pocket somewhere up the hill, a chill, dreary rain set in. [5]
In my fancy the long, low swells of land, like those of some dreary sea, were for the moment the subsiding waves of the cataclysm that had rolled here and extinguished all life. [9]
When she closed the little eyes which had gazed into her pale face so often and so tenderly, it seemed as if the sun, moon, and stars had lost their light, and henceforth she was condemned to live in dreary gloom. [10]
Then he remembered the desolate smithy in the narrow market-place and the dreary home, recollected that he was thirty years old, and still had no wife. [10]
From the day that that dreary news came we had one scare after another, the marauders coming almost to our doors every now and then; so that we lived in ever-increasing apprehension, and yet were somehow mercifully spared from actual attack. [5]
He had returned that evening to a dreary household. [9]
I can hardly tell you how thankful I was, when, after that dreary and almost despairing interval of utter darkness, some gleam of daylight became visible to him once more. [14]
Furthermore, while the summers were beautiful on this high table land, the winters were long and dreary in the enforced solitude of a thinly settled region. [4]
Mr. Carvel's house stands in Marlborough Street, a dreary mansion enough. [9]
New sympathies, new sources of encouragement, if not of inspiration, have opened themselves before me and cheated the least promising season of life of much that seemed to render it dreary and depressing. [6]
As he sat so, thinking, he wondered where she was, and why he should be thinking of her now, facing the dreary sorrow of this pestilence and his own anger and vengeance. [11]
She fears she shall now, in her dreary solitude, become a 'stern, harsh, selfish woman. [14]
A dreary, melancholy settled down upon her. [5]
All about us rose gigantic masses, crags, and ramparts of bare and dreary rock, with not a vestige or semblance of plant or tree or flower anywhere, or glimpse of any creature that had life. [5]
In one dreary, rocky waste, away above the line of vegetation, we met a procession of twenty-five mounted young men, all from America. [5]
There is a proof of the existence of the gods, which so exactly suits the hour when you will again see, enjoy, admire what this dreary darkness now hides from you. [10]
In that gloomy place all the long, dreary night. [12]
It was a pity that so many weeks of dreary labor should have come to naught at last. [5]
It seems a pity he did not finish, for after all his dreary former chapters of commonplace, he stopped just as he was in danger of becoming interesting. [5]
I shall pass over that dreary summer of '74. [9]
Even more eloquent of democratic folly was that part of the town through which we presently passed, streets lined with rows of dreary houses where the workers lived. [9]
Two other galleys, not much inferior in size, were behind, and probably fifty smaller vessels were moving about the mouth of the Nile and the whole dreary tongue of land. [10]
For poetry is not merely the comfort of the refined and the delight of the educated; it is the alleviator of poverty, the pleasure-ground of the ignorant, the bright spot in the most dreary pilgrimage. [4]
Now, I do not decline because I mind talking to an audience, but because (1) traveling alone is so heartbreakingly dreary, and (2) shouldering the whole show is such a cheer-killing responsibility. [5]
Not a tree, not a bush, not a human dwelling was to be seen in this dreary wilderness. [10]
I can conceive no more dreary existence than that of a man who is past the period of business activity, and who cannot, for his entertainment, his happiness, draw upon the great reservoir of literature. [4]
His father, ignorant, needy, and thriftless, content if he could keep soul and body together for himself and his family, was ever seeking, without success, to better his unhappy condition by moving on from one such scene of dreary desolation to another. [7]
He smiled a melancholy smile and resumed: "When I glance back over the dreary waste of ages, I see many a glimmering and mark that is familiar to my memory. [5]
And as he made his way thither on this particular evening, a renewed sense came upon him of his emancipation from the dreary, useless hours he had been wont to spend at other dinner tables. [9]
The sun gaed loon a' bluidy, an' belyve the morn rose unco mirk an' dreary, wi' bullers (rollers) frae the west like muckle sowthers (soldiers) wi' white plumes. [9]
We sat silently looking out over the dreary stretch of roofs and down into a dingy court of Bernard's Inn below, when suddenly there arose a commotion on the stairs, as of a man mounting hastily. [9]
Its spacious apartments looked dreary and desolate; for here Dudley Venner and his daughter dwelt by themselves, with such servants only as their quiet mode of life required. [6]
Not a sincere line in it, and not a character that invites respect; a book which is one long waste-pipe discharge of goody-goody puerilities and dreary moralities; a book which is full of pathos which revolts, and humor which grieves the heart. [5]
But the battle is not over then, nor without long and arduous fighting, often a dreary, dragging struggle without the excitement of novelty. [4]
I was ushered into low, dark chambers, small and dreary, looking towards the sunless north, which I was assured were delightful and even elegant. [4]
She had sunk into a dreary apathy and would not be roused. [5]
A dreary long interval after this, then the spectral sound floated to us once more--one, two three; and this time we caught our breath; sixty minutes of life left! [5]
But it was indeed a joyful surprise when, one right dreary day, Heinz Trardorf, Herdegen's best-beloved companion in his youth, who had long kept far from the house, came to speak with us of Herdegen's concerns. [10]
Undoubtedly he rejoiced in the brief periods when he was actually before his audience and could play upon it with his master touch, but the dreary intermissions of travel and broken sleep were too heavy a price to pay. [5]
At four o'clock in the afternoon we were winding down a mountain of dreary and desolate lava to the sea, and closing our pleasant land journey. [5]
It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land. [5]
As Tom trudged home his mind was full of dreary thoughts and wild plans; but at last he said to himself, wearily: "There is but the one way out. [5]
Dryfoos suddenly pulled himself together from the dreary absence into which he fell at first. [8]
These were, indeed, her principal interests at this time; the revision of her sister's works, and writing a short memoir of them, was the painful employment of every day during the dreary autumn of 1850. [14]
The tropics may have their delights, but they have not turf: and the world without turf is a dreary desert. [4]
Would it be handy for you to send me the $43,200 first, so I could be counting it as I come along; because railroading is pretty dreary to a sensitive nature when there's nothing sordid to buck at for Zeitvertreib. [5]
A dreary old hair-cloth sofa against the wall; a few damaged chairs; the small table the lamp stood on; the crippled stove--these things constituted the furniture of the room. [5]
My lecture, which had seemed "humorous" to me, at first, grew steadily more and more dreary, till not a vestige of fun seemed left, and I grieved that I could not bring a coffin on the stage and turn the thing into a funeral. [5]
It was a gloomy autumn evening, and he thought the old place had never looked so dismal as in its dreary twilight. [12]
A long, dreary funeral march, with never a shout or a cheer; friends looking on in tears, all the way, enemies laughing. [5]
They were in front of a rather imposing house of brick, flanked on one side by a house just like it, and on the other by a series of dreary vacant lots where the rain had collected in pools. [9]
He was removed from the narrow cell which he had occupied during such a dreary stretch of time, and given the chief warden's roomy and comfortable quarters. [5]
One dreary, rainy Friday in November, Myrtle was left alone in the house. [6]
He could not follow them to the dreary dwellings where they lodged. [9]
And the dreary fields through which it had formerly run were bristling with new houses in no sense Victorian, and which were the first stirrings of a national sense of the artistic. [9]
It makes me feel as old as these dreary hills to look down upon these moss-hung ruins, this historic desolation. [5]
Without his fresh enthusiasm and his gallant devotion to learning, to art, to culture, the world would be dreary enough. [4]
But it was dreary to write without any one to listen to the progress of her tale,--to find fault or to sympathise,--while pacing the length of the parlour in the evenings, as in the days that were no more. [14]
It was a dreary pull and a long and thirsty one, for we had no water. [5]
Through those last dreary days of November, wretched families, which a year since had been in health and prosperity, came to the city, beggars, with the wrecks of their homes. [9]
The dreary and dragging ages of bloodshed and disorder and oppression will give place to peace and order and the reign of law. [5]
The people sat down as if relieved when the dreary prayer was finished. [6]
The old mahogany doors were spared, but matched now by Chippendale and Sheraton; the new, polished floors were covered with Oriental rugs, the dreary Durrett pictures replaced by good canvases and tapestries. [9]
But the dreary discipline of the household had sunk into her soul, and she had been shaping an internal life for herself, which it was hard for friendship to penetrate. [6]
A table d'ho^te dinner is a tedious affair for a man who seldom touches anything after the three first courses; therefore I used to do some pretty dreary waiting because of my fears. [5]
How dreary, how desolate the bright, flower-decked room seemed now, for the first time the Eletto felt really deserted. [10]
But the Ho^tel de Ville's old excellent reputation still keeps its dreary rooms crowded with travelers who would be elsewhere if they had only some wise friend to warn them. [5]
In our old day such a gathering talked pure drivel and "rot," mostly, but better that, a thousand times, than these dreary conversational funerals that oppress our spirits in this mad generation. [5]
City seems so cramped and so dreary with toil and care and business anxieties. [5]
Such a thing could never be funny on land; no part of the old-time grotesque performances gotten up on shipboard to celebrate the passage of the line would ever be funny on shore--they would seem dreary and less to shore people. [5]
It was a costly nap, on that account, but otherwise it was a paying investment because it brought unconsciousness of the dreary minutes and put us in a somewhat fitter mood for a first glimpse of the sacred river. [5]
Halliday carried a cigar-box around on a tripod, playing that it was a camera, and halted all passers and aimed the thing and said "Ready!--now look pleasant, please," but not even this capital joke could surprise the dreary faces into any softening. [5]
I had nothing but dreary news to write, so preferred that others should tell her. [14]
Still, it was but a rough and dreary kind of comfort that the extemporized hospitals suggested. [6]
But all the buildings are in the Romanesque style,--a repetition of one another to a monotonous degree: only at the lower end are there any shops or shop-windows, and a more dreary promenade need not be imagined. [4]

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