The gathering greyness of an autumn twilight added to the dreariness of the scene.

The prison was becoming a less startling image of desolate dreariness to him.

Nothing broke the grimness of it, not even a bird in the air, or a leaping fish; complete desolation met the eye in every direction, a threatening, menacing dreariness amid which each approaching swell seemed about to sweep them to destruction.

Many and many a time have I been coming home, weary and heart-sick, and the glimpse of the little face watching has reminded me that I must not carry in a grave face to sadden my darling, and the effort to throw off the dreariness for her sake shook it off altogether, and brought back the sunshine.

"Yes, seven years," she repeated, and though she also smiled there was a note of unspeakable dreariness in her voice.

But many people get a habit of work, and fall into dreariness without it.