extremly grand music is always dismal.
In the presence of this society, frivolous and dismal, Voltaire alone, having before his eyes those united forces, the court, the nobility, capital; that unconscious power, the blind multitude .
、（aabb） The ceaseless drizzle drips all the dismal day, So broken-hearted fares the traveler on the way.
Adding to my dismal sense of inadequacy was the repeated experience of seeing my sisters and friends go off to exciting dates.
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
I even fancied that I heard the expiring sighs of those who, like myself, had come into this dismal place alive.
She walked almost the whole day until she reached the middle of the forest, where it was the darkest, and there stood a solitary house, which she did not like, for it looked so dark and dismal.
' When anything had to be done, it was always the elder who was forced to do it, but if his father bade him fetch anything when it was late, or in the night-time, and the way led through the churchyard, or any other dismal place, he answered 'oh, no, father, I'll not go there, it makes me shudder.
' "It is a time of trouble, dismal days, when every man is his own master.
With what splendor he filled that dismal dwelling!
The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one remained in his own booth, which was closed early enough in the evening, and then it looked dark and dismal out in the street.
The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it be behind the iron gratings in the wall which cover the narrow loopholes or windows, for in these dungeons the most depraved of the criminals are confined.
At the same time sounded dismal moans from the table-drawer in which lay Hjalmar's school books.
" "Do leave off those dismal strains," said the parrot; "sing something to make us laugh; laughter is the sign of the highest order of intellect.
