1 Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
2 This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 3 Closely following the jailer into the dismal apartment, appeared that individual, of singular aspect whose presence in the crowd had been of such deep interest to the wearer of the scarlet letter.
4 But Hester could not resolve the query, being herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt.
5 Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 6 At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
7 Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
8 I sat down in the cliental chair placed over against Mr. Jaggers's chair, and became fascinated by the dismal atmosphere of the place.
9 Mr. Pocket uttered a dismal groan.
10 There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal.
11 At this dismal time we were evidently all possessed by the idea that we were followed.
12 The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened.
13 Again, I wonder whether any of the neighbours call to mind, as I do, how we used to walk home together, she and I; and I wonder stupidly about that, all the dreary dismal day.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 14 I never shall forget the waking, next morning; the being cheerful and fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed down by the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 15 He made the most dismal sounds I have ever heard produced by any means, natural or artificial.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME