" Rubbing his skull quite dismally, the prospective pedestrian goes straightway to the porch of the Alms-House, and there waits until his sister comes down in her bonnet and joins him.

Last night's scene of violence when the injured child was brought home went dismally before his eyes.

The wind which sang dismally around him reminded him with a sickening blur of homesickness of the many pleasant evenings he and Evelyn had spent in their little shack, with the same wind making eerie music in the pipe of the stove.

It was a bitterly cold, dark, winter morning; the wires overhead sang dismally in the wind, and even the cheer of the big coal fire that glowed in the rusty stove was dampened by the incessant mourning of the storm.

As the door yielded, the hinges creaking dismally, a sharp cry, human in its agony, assailed me from within.

For he came upon a little brown cub whimpering dismally.

She lay still and looked up; the pines were black and swayed dismally; the wind among them made shuddersome music; the cold began to drive through her blankets, through her clothing.

I lay where, with his drowsy mates, the cock From the cross-timber of an out-house hung: 375 Dismally tolled, that night, the city clock!

Certain it is that the river had its humours not to be accounted for by outward thingsseeming to be gay without reason, like any human heart, in dull weather, and murmuring dismally when the sun shone and the birds were singing in the trees.

Away they went, leaving poor Mrs. Snow to bewail herself dismally after she had smiled and nodded them out of sight.

Have you?" "No, no; butbesides music, there are so many other things," he said dismally.

"I didn't think you would have changed so much as this, Peter," she said, rather dismally.

Near him the Professor snored dismally, probably dreaming dreams of the greatness that would be thrust upon him in the near future.

Sometimes a flame of anger shot up in her, dismally illuminating the path she had travelled and the blank wall to which it led.

" As they all pegged dismally homeward, the half-dozen thought that Mr. Mitchell had also just about cured six Volunteers.

The brown-and-white dog was howling dismally again, while the black one which had a cropped ear seemed disposed to follow suit.

In the kennels the hounds howled dismally, in the stables at each footstep the ponies stamped with impatience, on the terrace his house dog, Huang Su, lay with his eyes fixed upon the road waiting for the return of the master, and in the gardens a girl in black, wasted and white-faced, walked alone and rebelled that she was still alive.

Moreover, a crowd collected about his lodgings, who groaned dismally when he drove away with his friend, while a band of musicians, provided for the occasion, played the Rogue's March.

I accordingly mounted on front, protected by a blouse and umbrella, for it was beginning to rain dismally.

The dogs were howling dismally, suspended in all sorts of fantastic positions and evidently terribly frightened.

When a Kansas or Osage wife finds, on the return of a war-party, that she is a widow, she howls dismally, but forthwith seeks an avenger in the shape of a new husband.

"What about the ladies?" Captain Brisket shook his head dismally and pointed ashore, and Mr. Chalk, following the direction of his finger, gazed spellbound at a figure which was signalling wildly from the highest point.

" At that moment Miss Terry's little grandchild, who was playing about the room, BEGAN TO HOWL most dismally.

Müller thrust his hands into his pockets, shook his head, and whistled dismally.

"God sent art, and the devil sent critics," said Müller, dismally paraphrasing a popular proverb.