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dismally
1. Faith opined rather dismally that she supposed she would have to be a missionary--old Mrs
2. that high-cost medical care, our health outcomes in many categories are dismally
3. in for their burial? She wondered dismally, not even knowing what
4. the troll but failing dismally
5. He tried giving KING his very most winning smile, which failed as dismally as his sheepish one had done
6. The churning in his stomach was terrible, and he could not ignore it, not at least until he got the hell out of Washington and back to the dismally anonymous crevices of Austin
7. He wanted to be sure she would be happy, and it seemed more and more plain to him that she could never find joy in such a dismally dark and lifeless place as his home
8. The poor pig would spend his days either anxiously hanging on with all his claws--or is it paws? I forget what pigs have; anyhow, with all his might--to the hillside, or huddled dismally down against the end planks, and never be of that sublime detachment of spirit necessary to him if he would end satisfactorily in really fat bacon
9. I would hang very dismally, with drooping head and wings, on those exalted hooks
10. The rain beat dismally down on my umbrella as I stood before the blank locked door
11. ” He said to her, almost dismally
12. He had had breakfast in Berlin, but he sat watching her with an alert interest that missed not the smallest of her movements, very reminiscent in his attitude and pleasure of a cat watching its own dear mouse, observing it with a whiskered relish, its own dear particular mouse that it has ached for for years before it ever met it, filling itself dismally meanwhile with the wrong mice who disagreed with it--its mouse that, annexed and safely incorporated, was going to do it so much good and make it twice the eat it was before; and he buttered her roll for her, and poured out her tea, and did all the things a cat would do in such a situation if it were a man, pleased that its mouse should fatten, aware that anything it ate and drank would ultimately, so to speak, remain in the family
13. a hundred miles up the stairs dismally slipped away
14. Newtonian science are not able to accomplish that, it is Newtonian science that is dismally inadequate,
15. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dismally
16. Laurence, told the hard story bravely through, and then broke down, crying so dismally over her own insensibility that the kind old gentleman, though sorely disappointed, did not utter a reproach
17. This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for `Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat
18. Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,—as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,—were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms
19. Whatever he put on, became him less (it dismally seemed to me) than what he had worn before
20. Merthin had always been able to overcome him in an argument, Ralph recalled dismally
21. Hazel sat hunched under the firs, worrying dismally
22. Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress
23. The rain echoed dismally up the culvert
24. Everything was dismally still
25. As the war had caught him in the service, Nicholas Rostov took a close and prolonged part in the defense of his country, but did so casually, without any aim at self-sacrifice, and he therefore looked at what was going on in Russia without despair and without dismally racking his brains over it
26. For the eye of the thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an apron, dismally sponging out their work
27. All the gaunt wrecks, the blackened skeletons of houses that stared so dismally at the sunlit grass of the hill, would presently be echoing with the hammers of the restorers and ringing with the tapping of their trowels
28. The ribs of the few horses showed dismally
29. But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the pumps, whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary night dismally resounded through the ship
30. “I am engaged,” said the isvostchik, dismally, and without looking up
31. As the war had caught him in the service, Nicholas Rostóv took a close and prolonged part in the defense of his country, but did so casually, without any aim at self-sacrifice, and he therefore looked at what was going on in Russia without despair and without dismally racking his brains over it
