Inexpressibly dreary as the journey had been she was sorry it was at an end.

A grove of poplars to the left of it only made the prospect more depressing, and if it had not been for a great sheet of water near by, floating with cow lilies and pond lilies, the whole aspect of the place would have been unspeakably dreary.

There is nothing so thoroughly, hopelessly dreary and uncomfortable, as camping out upon a Siberian steppe in a storm.

The scene under the wintry sky looked wild and singularly dreary.

It was all terribly dreary and forlorn, and she wished she could end it by putting her head on some broad shoulder and by being told that it didn't matter, and that she was not to blame if the world would be wicked and its people unrepentant and ungrateful.

The journey to posterity lies through a horribly dreary region, like the Lybian desert, of which, as is well known, no one has any idea who has not seen it for himself.

Scraps of old copy-books and exercises littered the dirty floor, ink had been splashed everywhere, and the air of the place was indescribably dreary.

I lit the lot, and after that, the room felt a little less inhumanly dreary; though, mind you, it was quite fresh, and well kept in every way.

The place wore a specially dreary and deserted aspect: the land was flat, and covered with low shrubs.

The town looked strangely dreary.

I have seen him in the company of one or two unaccountably dreary men, himself the dreariest of the party.

The festival was uncommonly dreary, for the air was chilly, the sky gray and gloomy, and there was a total lack of spontaneity in the popular spirit.

Those winter months were unutterably dreary for Lady Mary Haselden.

I had heard so much of the universities of France that I had pictured to myself grand buildings, like those of our universities; but, instead, I found that the lectures were given in isolated rooms, here, there, and anywhereuniformly dreary inside and outside.

The war had settled down into its winter campaign, utterly dreary and almost without episodes in the country round Furnes.

Confoundedly dreary, I should fancy it myself; but then I'm not a newly married man.

Harrisburg may be very pretty and interesting in fine weather, but it was a desolately dreary place to anticipate being snowed-up at in winter, although situated on the banks of the lovely Susquehana: accordingly, I asked mine host when the next train would pass.

it's not what I expected, and I think it's all too dreadfully dreary!"

But endlessly dreary would the story be, were there no Life living by its own will, no perfect Will, one with an almighty heart, no Love in whom we live and move and have our being.