From her front window she could look down the Tofton Road, leading out of St Ogg's, and note the growing tendency to "gadding about" in the wives of men not retired from business, together with a practice of wearing woven cotton stockings, which opened a dreary prospect for the coming generation; and from her back windows she could look down the pleasant garden and orchard which stretched to the river, and observe the folly of Mr Glegg in spending his time among "them flowers and vegetables.
And what seemed a foreboding was pressing upon him as with slow pincers:—that his life might come to be enslaved by this helpless woman who had thrown herself upon him in the dreary sadness of her heart.
The banker's drive of ten miles with his hated companion was a dreary beginning of the Christmas day; but at the end of the drive, Raffles had recovered his spirits, and parted in a contentment for which there was the good reason that the banker had given him a hundred pounds.
Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!
In the first minutes when Dorothea looked out she felt nothing but the dreary oppression; then came a keen remembrance, and turning away from the window she walked round the room.
I am ready to stay if you wish it,"—it seemed to her as if going or staying were alike dreary.
Casaubon's,—taking it in as eagerly as she might have taken in the scent of a fresh bouquet after a dry, hot, dreary walk.
They had many interesting talks together, after that, as the dreary days went on; and the gaoler's daughter grew very sorry for Toad, and thought it a great shame that a poor little animal should be locked up in prison for what seemed to her a very trivial offence.
"All this coming away and leaving him in that dreary place while I rollick in heaven.
No wild effort to remember whether she hadn't given the same kind of present to the same person two Christmases before—no mob of last-minute shoppers—no dreary family "reunions" where she sat mute and unimportant—no attacks of "nerves.
Now it was a faded, dreary old place, with a leprous, patched roof and shutters hanging askew.
Another dreary day like all the days that had preceded it, full of meaningless little tasks, joyless and unimportant, that benefited nobody.
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick—a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
She had sunk into a dreary apathy and would not be roused.
At such a time, so dark, so dreary, for human sympathy my very spirit sighed; but instead thereof, 'My dearest friend, my counsellor, my comforter and guide— My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy,' came to my side.
Tom arrived at home in a dreary mood, and the first thing his aunt said to him showed him that he had brought his sorrows to an unpromising market: "Tom, I've a notion to skin you alive!
Tom's heart ached to be free, or else to have something of interest to do to pass the dreary time.
A log raft in the river invited him, and he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream, wishing, the while, that he could only be drowned, all at once and unconsciously, without undergoing the uncomfortable routine devised by nature.
—— · What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
In spite of our efforts, we seemed to be getting no closer to Mary as the cold, dreary March days dragged by.
