The latter room was dark and cheerless, and they wondered that any one should have selected it for a dining room.

" He led the way inside, and the girl followed him to a dirty, cheerless room behind the shop which was furnished with a sofa-bedstead, a table, and a chair.

Oh, blessed news for us, and for those we love; those without whose company the world to come would be lonely and cheerless to us.

Even in summer time the air of the city is overheated and close, and the early mornings cheerless and uncomfortable.

Slowly thus the ocean creeping, Creeping coldly o'er the world of old, Stole many an Eden from the Age of Gold, And gazing now we see blank billows sweeping, Long cheerless wavings of the sullen seas, Were once the sun shone bright on flowery leas.

And gazed out through my briny tears, Upon the future lonely years, Upon the cold, bleak, cheerless years, Till Earth should ope her grassy breast, And take me to my welcome rest, Where she in Death's cold arms lay prest; This day it seemsAh me!

The hymn which has led to these remarks is still good, although, like the loveliness of the red and lowering west, it gives sign of a gray and cheerless dawn, under whose dreariness the child will first doubt if his father loves him, and next doubt if he has a father at all, and is not a mere foundling that Nature has lifted from her path.

It flooded highway and meadows with rich yellow light, but Andy, swinging his school books over his shoulder, walked on with drooping head and a cheerless heart.

While she was sitting at work during one of these engagements, she compared her own cheerless lot with the happiness which surrounded her.

Victor's glance ranged the cheerless room.

We will no longer look with drooping and cheerless anxiety upon the misfortunes of Britain, we have a resource for them all.

The melodious thrill dies away, and on he must go; on he goes, joyless, cheerless, and cold, every fibre of his heart bent to the earnest duties of the day.

Her one thought, as she walked those miles of lonely rural byways, so bare and cheerless, was of Walterher Walterthe man who, she knew, would have willingly given his very life for hers.

It was a cold, cheerless morning; the wind was blowing, and the rain was beating against the windows.

She had grown conscious that Harold Transome was making love to her, that Mrs. Transome really desired her for a daughter-in-law, and it seemed to her as she waited with the minister in the cheerless prison room, that she stood at the first and last parting of the ways.

For months life seemed to me a dull, sad thing, and for a while I did not care whether I lived or died, the sunshine had suddenly faded from my path, and the future looked so dark and cheerless.

These houses contain apartments more or less cheerless and badly furnished, according to the price (always exorbitant, however small it may be) demanded for them, and are devoted exclusively to the storage of empty bottles and demijohns, to large boxes of vegetable- and flower-seeds, to great piles of books, speeches, and documents not yet directed to people who will never read them, and to an abominable odor of boiling cabbages.

Thee only, thee, my Pylades, my friend, The guiltless partner of my crime and curse, Thee am I loath, before thy time, to take To yonder cheerless shore!

The day had closed, dark, dreary and cheerless.

All looked like the enchanting scenes pictured in fairy tales, and one might almost suppose Alladin's wonderful lamp was still extant, performing its mysterious spells, and casting a supernatural lustre over the gay group that assembled, to dissipate the cheerless gloom that reigned without, by mirth and hilarity.

CEDED ISLANDS, money arising from the, ii. 353, n. 4. CELIBACY, cheerless, ii. 128.

Nothing can well be more depressing than wet and cheerless weather in a land obviously intended for sunshine.

One of the inhabitants, on being boldly accosted, was good enough to point out the way, and so the re-united partytired, wet, and with no prospect of dry clothingtook possession of the cheerless-looking dâk bungalow.

In fact, it presented an even desolate and forlorn appearance with its gloomy and chilly passages and cheerless bed-vaults.

It showed them a cheerless apartment in spite of the red of wall paper and carpet.