Both Uses of
dismal
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.†
Chpt 8 *dismal = depressing or gloomy
- It is a long, dismal walk, the Yew Alley, between two high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)