All 3 Uses of
dismal
in
Don Quixote
- For, though it be to solitudes remote The hoarse vague echoes of my sorrows sound Thy matchless cruelty, my dismal fate Shall carry them to all the spacious world.†
Chpt 1.13-14 *dismal = depressing or gloomy
- Such, sirs, is the dismal story of my misfortune: say if it be one that can be told with less emotion than you have seen in me; and do not trouble yourselves with urging or pressing upon me what reason suggests as likely to serve for my relief, for it will avail me as much as the medicine prescribed by a wise physician avails the sick man who will not take it.†
Chpt 1.27-28
- Every now and then Sancho gave vent to deep sighs and dismal groans, and on Don Quixote asking him what caused such acute suffering, he replied that, from the end of his back-bone up to the nape of his neck, he was so sore that it nearly drove him out of his senses.†
Chpt 2.27-28
Definition:
of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)