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  • Leah A FTER THREE WEEKS of the doldrums I made Ruth May get out of bed.†  (source)
  • On previous days we had waited for the doldrums in the middle of the day when the isle was still in the water, the sea a glazed mirror.†  (source)
  • She was like a sailor caught in the doldrums, waiting with increasing desperation for the faintest hint of a breeze to fill the sails and let the journey continue.†  (source)
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  • The traffic had diminished considerably, the rush hour over, the street in the doldrums of midmorning quiescence.†  (source)
  • "WHAT ARE THE DOLDRUMS?" he cried loudly, and tried very hard to see who would answer this time.†  (source)
  • Another event which took place during the July doldrums gave me much to think about.†  (source)
  • Another couple of days, we'll be out of the sweeps and into the June doldrums.†  (source)
  • EAGER FOR A BREAK from the doldrums of summer in London, with Parliament in recess and "everyone fled from the city," the Adamses decided to see some of the English countryside.†  (source)
  • But now, unless he were so fortunate as to be nominated and subsequently elected to this county judgeship, defeat and political doldrums loomed ahead.†  (source)
  • You've been pampered with thrills, and if you don't get a first-class kick every day, you sulk and fret about in the doldrums.†  (source)
  • I understood quite a good deal of First Principles, but his Biology took the wind out of my sails, and his Psychology left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day.†  (source)
  • This is as dull as the doldrums.†  (source)
  • To this I quickly answered: 'Let me tell you, goddess, whatever goddess you may be, these doldrums are no will of mine.†  (source)
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