Poor old Gough looked awfully dismal at being left behind, but it was the fortune of war.

A most damnably dismal day.

The cooks too were in attendance, and though they, as became them, did all in their power to look decorously dismal, well as they managed their faces, they could not so divest themselves of their professional peculiarities, as not to awaken thoughts which involuntarily turned to ludicrous or festive scenes.

To-night the sky is breaking and conditions generally more promisingit is dreadfully dismal work marching through the blank wall of white, and we should have very great difficulty if we had not a party to go ahead and show the course.

Not greatly desirous of the society of these roysterers, we crossed quickly from the station into the Gray's Inn Road, now silent and excessively dismal in aspect, and took our way along the western side.

Thus during this period the history of the dynasty was of an extraordinarily dismal character.

"B-b-illy," he chattered, "will you go back with me, and will you bring ashore those two kids?" Billy looked a trifle dismal.

Had Shenstone been writing in an American country hotel, his tune would probably have been more after this fashion: "A wonderful day has come to a dreary end in the most sepulchral of hotels, a mouldy, barn-like place, ill-lit, mildewed and unspeakably dismal.

At any rate, this poor old place doesn't look so woefully dismal and hateful to you now.