"Dismally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unfortunate. The Colonel took his dinner in private, and the Mess orderly, who had dismally cut the two of clubs in the kitchen, returned from his ministrations a complete nervous wreck. The Adjutant explained that misfortune had followed misfortune. They had barely settled down midstream, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 19, 1919 • Various
... would comfort her to feel my arm about her neck. She neighed her appreciation, and gently rubbed her nostrils against my side, ever a token of affection with her. When the boat began to move, the two stalwart negroes pulling at their great oars and chanting dismally in time to their pulling, Fatima again showed signs of excitement, but I easily quieted her, and then I had leisure to use ...
— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon
... Expedition set on foot to go and find out Mrs. Fielding; and to be dismally penitent to that excellent gentlewoman; and to bring her back, by force, if needful, to be happy and forgiving. And when the Expedition first discovered her, she would listen to no terms at all, but said, an unspeakable number of times, that ever she should have lived to see the day! and ...
— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens
... in pairs, the picnic basket's Rattling dismally, plate and spoon and jar. The boy takes his girl to her lodgings in ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Marjorie Allen Seiffert
... dismally screwed up at the nerve-searching discord, said: "Why do they try to play anything ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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