All 3 Uses of
dismal
in
Leaves of Grass
- …in their boats under shelter of high banks, Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp, There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree; Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear…†
Chpt 10
- O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!†
Chpt 19 *
- This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee, An unceasing death-bell tolls there.†
Chpt 32
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)