All 12 Uses of
dismal
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity.†
Chpt 3
- Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.†
Chpt 6
- Everything was dismally still.
Chpt 9 *dismally = depressingly
- They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away.†
Chpt 10
- Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.†
Chpt 11
- The boy remained as dismal as a hearse.†
Chpt 12
- Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper —hard-eyed, and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.†
Chpt 13
- They made an imposing adventure of it, saying, "Hist!" every now and then, and suddenly halting with finger on lip; moving with hands on imaginary dagger-hilts; and giving orders in dismal whispers that if "the foe" stirred, to "let him have it to the hilt," because "dead men tell no tales."†
Chpt 13
- Then there was a dispute about who saw the dead boys last in life, and many claimed that dismal distinction, and offered evidences, more or less tampered with by the witness; and when it was ultimately decided who DID see the departed last, and exchanged the last words with them, the lucky parties took upon themselves a sort of sacred importance, and were gaped at and envied by all the rest.†
Chpt 17
- Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently.†
Chpt 23
- Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was well-nigh obliterated.†
Chpt 24
- The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile, and then groups and couples began to slip aside into branch avenues, fly along the dismal corridors, and take each other by surprise at points where the corridors joined again.†
Chpt 29
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)