Lexicographical Neighbors of Dismals
Literary usage of Dismals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"dismals. In the first two extracts = mourning garments ; in the other ...
Such pretty employment in new dismals, when she had hardly worn round her blazing ..."
2. Christmas Festivities: Tales, Sketches, and Characters, with Beauties of the by John Poole (1845)
"This is the work, sir, for driving away the dismals. ... If any man has cause
for the ' dismals,' as you call it, you, Major, in this trying situation, ..."
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