All 14 Uses of
dismal
in
Wuthering Heights
- The dismal spiritual atmosphere overcame, and more than neutralised, the glowing physical comforts round me; and I resolved to be cautious how I ventured under those rafters a third time.†
Chpt 2
- Therefore, not to mention his clothes, which had seen three months' service in mire and dust, and his thick uncombed hair, the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded.†
Chpt 7
- 'We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.†
Chpt 9
- 'What ails you, Cathy?' he was saying when I entered: 'you look as dismal as a drowned whelp.†
Chpt 9
- I've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people talked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad habits, and, hopeless of benefiting him, have flinched from re-entering the dismal house, doubting if I could bear to be taken at my word.†
Chpt 11
- I was laid alone, for the first time; and, rousing from a dismal doze after a night of weeping, I lifted my hand to push the panels aside: it struck the table-top!†
Chpt 12
- I listened to detect a woman's voice in the house, and filled the interim with wild regrets and dismal anticipations, which, at last, spoke audibly in irrepressible sighing and weeping.†
Chpt 13
- There never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented!†
Chpt 14
- And dreary, and chill, and dismal, that morrow did creep over!†
Chpt 17 *
- It seemed so dismal to go up-stairs, with the wild snow blowing outside, and my thoughts continually reverting to the kirk-yard and the new-made grave!†
Chpt 17
- The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from our little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in common with all children, rich and poor.†
Chpt 18
- It was not the case, in reality, I am aware; but it was, in my imagination, that dismal night; and I thought Heathcliff himself less guilty than I. At seven o'clock he came, and inquired if Miss Linton had risen.†
Chpt 27
- I uttered an ejaculation of discontent at seeing the dismal grate, and commenced shutting the casements, one after another, till I came to his.†
Chpt 34
- 'I believe you think me a fiend,' he said, with his dismal laugh: 'something too horrible to live under a decent roof.'†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(dismal) of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)