Nothing could be more dreary than the desert through which he passed, nor anything more charmingaccording to the fabulous accounts of the poetsthan the particular spot where the temple was situated.

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

I would assign this period as the darkest and the dreariest in the history of Europe since the Roman conquests, for this reason,that civilization perished without any one to chronicle the changes, or to take notice of the extinction.

Charlestown, the old house, the daily life, all had grown sad and dreary to them since father had gone.

Those winter months were unutterably dreary for Lady Mary Haselden.

City life does not seem to be such an exhausting struggle, and even the "misery wagons," as I always call ambulances to myself, look less dreary with the blinking light fore and aft, for you cannot go far in New York without feeling the pitying thrill of their gongs.

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

The place was very dreary at that hour of the day, and to Codd, who was of an imaginative turn of mind, it seemed as if faces out of the long deserted past were watching him from every house.

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.

Within this magic circle all was warm, comfortable, and cheery; outside all was dark, and cold, and dreary by contrast.

in torrents, cold and dreary through a perfectly flat country....

But now, from the day of her sudden decease, the prison had become to him dreary beyond endurance.