All 6 Uses of
dismal
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- It is a sort of attenuated variety of Ixion's punishment, and contributes a dismal chapter to the history of gaols.†
Chpt 19-21
- There was not a sound of life save that acme and sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox, its three hollow notes being rendered at intervals of a minute with the precision of a funeral bell.†
Chpt 40-42
- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.†
Chpt 43-45
- It is a nice dismal one that would suit you excellent just now.†
Chpt 43-45
- "No, they don't; and I won't read dismal books.†
Chpt 43-45
- Why should I read dismal books, indeed?†
Chpt 43-45 *
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)