| 单词 | cheerless |
| 例句 | It was like something grim and cheerless that has suddenly found within it a will to sing. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aye, ’tis an eerie feeling to be out in the cheerless dawn, not knowing at what moment an enemy may appear out of the fog,” agreed Brother Luke. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Another time I heard the frail scratching cry of a newborn baby and Edmond seemed tired and cheerless and disappeared before I could find out what had happened. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked until she ran into Mariam, who shot her a cheerless glance and went back to slicing the stem off a bell pepper and trimming strips of fat from meat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As the cheerless shadows of the early evening began to fall the Company made ready to set out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It lashed in rhythmic waves against the windows of the white, brightly lit kitchen as we guests sat around the table and ate a silent, cheerless breakfast of coffee and Pop Tarts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The hobbits were glad to leave the cheerless lands and the perilous Road behind them; but this new country seemed threatening and unfriendly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One wet afternoon the following November, a Greyhound bus deposited Perry in Worcester, a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up-and-down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And very cheerless and uninviting it looks! There is no water and no shelter. And no sign of Gandalf. But I don’t blame him for not waiting — if he ever came here.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But when she sat alone her face looked cheerless and forlorn, full of tears waiting patiently to fall. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Inside it was damp and cheerless, and supper was served on a long bare table that had not been scrubbed for weeks. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The back corridor, which serves as a sort of backbone to the staff's quarters of Darlington Hall, was always a rather cheerless affair due to the lack of daylight penetrating its considerable length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After that, all through the cheerless days, she hugged the dream close. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Now I knew why I had to spend time in this quiet, cheerless house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We made camp and shared our cheerless rations with a kind of strained politeness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The weather is raw, cheerless, the sky white, the sun perpetually hidden from view. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But there are many kinds of trees ... We must save our birds, too. Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as a springtime without a robin’s song?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Pippin felt sleepy, but the lodging seemed cheerless, and he decided to go down and explore the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The voices that spoke were cheerless and sober and suggested a barely suppressed urgency. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At night the billboards four cheerless electric spotlights bathe his apartment in a strange reflected glare. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon they were roused by the watch, and took their chief meal: cold and cheerless as a rule, for they could seldom risk the lighting of a fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a cheerless land, and their journey was slow and gloomy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Or perhaps my sitting in the library with an intensely cheerless, poetic look on my face only scared girls away. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Here, gray and cheerless moors spread before them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The storefront sits on a fairly cheerless block just beyond a highway overpass. Review: Soho Rep’s ‘Washeteria,’ Staged in a Brooklyn Storefront 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z But a future predicated on product development alone, with little to offer the human heart, is a cheerless future indeed. ‘The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility’ Review: Future Imperfect 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z But one thing is certain, Ms. Borda said as she surveyed the current interior: It won’t be this drab, cheerless brown. After Years of False Starts, Geffen Hall Is Being Rebuilt. Really. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Unfolding with hardly a moment of warmth or human connection, Mr. Grashaw’s cheerless first feature is, like Brad’s detention, simply to be endured. ‘Coldwater,’ a Brutal Tale of Juvenile Lockup 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The pop-up tented venue within the O2 is as cheerless as an A&E waiting room on Boxing Day. Aladdin: A Wish Come True – review 2012-12-17T12:48:46Z A similarly cheerless vein was mined as far back as the 1970s, by Vivienne Westwood, the doyenne of the British punk movement. | AllSaints Spitalfields: The Rugged Charm of Jack the Ripper?s London 2010-06-09T01:28:00Z When he’s not at sea, he lives with his sister and her family in a cheerless, suffocating house. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Near the end of December, while President-elect Kennedy received national security briefings at his family’s estate in Palm Beach, Nixon hosted a cheerless Christmas party at home in Washington. Did John F. Kennedy and the Democrats Steal the 1960 Election? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z My rather cheerless 22nd-floor superior king room boasted beige wallpaper, an armchair in chocolate-brown damask, and a TV atop a functional-looking dresser of ash-gray veneer. Hotel Review: The St. Regis Toronto 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Reading one crackling, cheerless narrative after another, I started to feel that there was another—and possibly trickier—conflict at work. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z His death sets up the show’s utterly cheerless recurring theme, which is that the world’s funniest people are also the most tortured. Review | Skip the first episode of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ and wait until it gets its act together 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “If you think about the original French meaning of the word noir,” says Stærmose, “you associate it with cheerless lightning. But our lighting is not cheerless!” Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The dramatic effect of both is, however, swamped by relentless theorizing, chiefly on the part of the book’s cheerless narrator, Robert Hendricks. ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But in China, the birthplace of tiger parenting, kids whose parents control their lives with cheerless demands for perfection are becoming a problem. Tiger Mom, Hold That Growl 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z At the time, museums in Istanbul tended to look like cheerless government offices designed to exhibit and preserve archaeological artifacts, and the leftover splendors of the Ottoman era. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z One reviewer called the film "a cheap and cheerless effort that looks like a Channel 5 mid-week matinee". Rush motors to top of UK box office 2013-09-27T15:07:32Z Now that the delights of Panclentine Day are over, what is left to help us through the cheerless February days? Who has the best book covers – the UK or the US? 2013-02-17T19:00:01Z That said, there's lots to commend Hit & Miss, with fine cinematography capturing the cheerless rural landscape in which the action takes place, and the sense of a family-style unit, fractured yet tightly bound. TV highlights 19/06/2012 2012-06-18T11:56:01Z At the end of the cheerless night, Byron secrets away a slice of lemon pie, setting the stage for Kara’s ultimate transgression: a midnight snack. Watch Jonathan Demme’s Pitch-Black Eighties Sitcom Episode 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z There are two other tracks, both confirming this idea of him as terminally cheerless but neither quite matches Never Told You's immaculate solipsism. New band of the day: Oscar (No 1,498) 2013-04-23T16:13:05Z In “Kontakthof,” men and women — anxious with hope and longing — meet in a cheerless dance hall for nearly three hours of romantic encounters. ‘Kontakthof,’ by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, at BAM 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “It’s nothing fancy,” the employer says, clearly believing otherwise, as the nanny’s smile fades in the gray, cheerless light. ‘Nanny’ Review: A New Job That Swallows Her Life 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The ever-scrappier Allen observes life's frivolities with a bemused but cheerless eye in a London comedy whose great cast compensates for the fatalistic outlook. This week's new films 2011-03-19T00:05:59Z So cheerless that at one point I ask if he's a little more upbeat around the house. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z The cheerless narrative that follows takes Charlo from his plan to rob Harriet through the disastrous reality of the fatal attack and its unnerving aftermath. Book review: ‘The Murder of Harriet Krohn,’ by Karin Fossum 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z James Long’s shorts and boxy shirts, with wide stripes on a translucent gray ground, are almost cheerless uniforms. Front Row: Making the Best of a Brief Turn 2013-06-19T18:39:52Z She described her childhood, mostly in Hutchinson, Minn., as cheerless and isolated. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z He's also cheerless: absolutely insistent on detailing all that is wrong with the world. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z I may be making this novel sound cheerless. Review | ‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Whatever glories Scott is chasing, one gets the sense that it’s been a cheerless pursuit. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The visit draws a strangely dutiful, cheerless local crowd. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Despite the cheerless early swim test, the cast has been game about rolling with the show’s new direction, he said. Sea Zombies! How ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Overhauled Itself 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z For a first single, “Over” was particularly paranoid and cheerless. Arts & Leisure Preview: The New Face of Hip-Hop 2010-06-09T19:29:00Z Even when the dancers are in a joyful mood — and thank you, Roman Mejia and Gilbert Bolden III, for turning up the volume — the setting is cheerless. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Cashiers at the supermarket knew them as a quiet, cheerless family that shopped several times a week. In Long Island slayings, a wife nearby but apparently unknowing 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z It was a signature cartel threat demanding that debtors pay up or face a cheerless alternative — a shower of lead, i.e., bullets. Medellín, Colombia: From murder capital to growing tourist draw 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z "The beer situation is very cheerless," said Anton, a 36-year-old IT expert who works for a state financial organisation in Moscow. Little cheer for Russian beer lovers as sanctions bite 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Instead, at cheerless times like these, it’s worth appreciating the potential for profit embedded in dreadfully low prices. A Case for Cautious Optimism, Now That the Markets Are So Glum 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The water was so torpid that a thick layer of dust had settled onto it, giving it a cheerless brown tinge. Taking the scenic route to Aveiro, on Portugal’s Atlantic coast 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z A few years ago, $33 million seemed a lot of money for a cheerless parking lot. Commentary: How Frank Gehry's new Colburn concert hall could transform arts in L.A. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z And now, with Smith’s blessing, that cheerless vision has become a 10-part TV drama, awash in gray light and antiseptic in its portrayal of sun-kissed, Californian luxury. Review | ‘Bel-Air’ is ‘Fresh Prince’ without any of the things that made it special 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Decrying what he defined as “the tyranny of needs,” Francis said: “Let us not give apathy and resignation the power to drive us into a cheerless and banal existence.” Pope marks Epiphany by decrying consumerism 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Beijing 2022 could be as cheerless as Tokyo: No foreign spectators are allowed, ostensibly due to coronavirus concerns, but probably also to head off protests over human rights. Opinion | Anyone can boycott the Beijing Olympics. Everyone should. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The film looks like the cheerless 1950s Upper West Side. Commentary: Does 'West Side Story' work best as a film? An opera? Neither? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z People were concerned about the future of the UK economy "against a backdrop of cheerless domestic news" including "fuel and food shortages" and "surging inflation squeezing household budgets", Joe Staton, client strategy director GfK, said. M&S: Customers are Christmas shopping early 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z They continue their faintly catchy melodies, cheerless recitative, predictable cadences, all the while deceiving themselves. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Then Rattler, from Phoenix, had a few cheerless turns in September, including Sept. 25 when some home fans chanted for his backup during a 16-13 win over West Virginia seen as insufficiently pretty. Texas and Oklahoma found their Heisman candidates in the desert of Arizona 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z After a hardline election body barred heavyweight moderate and conservative candidates from standing in the race, young urban Iranians appear united only in their weariness with a cheerless status quo. Iran vote turnout poses test of youth frustrations and hopes 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z But often the buildings he fretted over reflect Broad’s image more than the city’s, particularly the cheerless museum he named for himself. Op-Ed: After Eli Broad, how will we remake Los Angeles? 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z This will not last, but in the meantime you can make enough jam to see you through the dark, cheerless, cherryless months. Juicy fruits: 17 ways to cook with cherries – from sorbet to vodka to black forest gateau 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump did most of the talking; Chief Justice Roberts adopted a fixed and cheerless expression that made clear that he was ready to return to his judicial duties. Chief Justice’s Impeachment Handbook: Determined Minimalism 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Our nation turns its cheerless eyes to you. Review: 'Dolemite Is My Name' returns Eddie Murphy to his R-rated comedic glory 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He’s also a cheerleader, of a somewhat cheerless variety. Quentin Tarantino Tweaks History in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z I had brought a rose, thinking that the grave might be a neglected and cheerless place. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z At the cheerless concrete venue, armed soldiers glared suspiciously not just at every little girl fan but at David Beckham, there in the middle of the crowd. 'Tens of thousands of tots empty their lungs': relive the Spice Girls' first tour 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z From the road, Paisley Park looks industrial, utilitarian, and cheerless, like a big-box store that has recently gone out of business. Paisley Park, Prince’s Lonely Palace 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Black comedies don't get much broader or more cheerless than "Let's Kill Grandpa This Christmas," a low-budget tale of malice and murder played out by six singularly unlikable people. Farce 'Let's Kill Grandpa This Christmas' is no holiday 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The Washington family took shelter “in the detached kitchen and spent a cheerless Christmas Day,” the historians say. Inside the Beltway: How George Washington spent Christmas, ‘from the joyous to the terrifying’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Spin magazine called the track "hard" and "cheerless", while the New York Times described the lyrics as "powerful, yet joyless". Taylor Swiftly breaks three YouTube and Spotify records - BBC News 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “I think ultimately it’s the triumph of hope over experience,” he said, with another cheerless laugh. How a top conservative radio talker lost his audience and faith but gained a new perspective 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z And instead of that wonderful face lighting up when he spoke, he wore a cheerless mask. When Muhammad Ali’s Twinkle Shone Brightest 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z On the recommendation of that cheerless diagnostician, Max spent two years at a posh, rather useless school for children with language disorders in a leafy corner of South London. My son with autism is going to college. Cue the happy tears. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The Winsted men encapsulate much of the Vietnam veteran’s experience - the combat and camaraderie, the longing for home and the cheerless homecoming. Winsted trio are brothers, and survivors, in arms 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z A monetary easing move by China late on Wednesday in an attempt to energize its sputtering economy failed to lift the cheerless mood in the region's equity markets. Asia stocks, euro slip as ECB takes hard line on Greek debt 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Backers concede that Clinton can come across as wooden and cheerless in public, and she has often struggled to show what friends say is genuine warmth and passion for helping people. Supporters say Clinton developing smarter, more relevant campaign for 2016 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Per tradition, the first daughters were in attendance, this time wearing mostly cheerless expressions and very short skirts. G.O.P. Aide Quits After Ridiculing Obama’s Daughters 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Despite his admonishment, authorities said he seemed cheerless and menacing during the robberies. 'Beachcomber Bandit' joins colorful list of robbers sought by FBI 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But the note the man dubbed the “Keep Smiling Bandit” passed to a teller at the Citibank branch in the 18200 block of Irvine Boulevard was cheerless, menacing and easily understood. FBI: 'Keep Smiling' bandit strikes again in Orange County 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z But I want to settle down, and I don’t want a long-distance romance, with relentless cross-country travel, long phone calls and cheerless abstinence. A 70-something looks for love in Ivy League alumni magazines. Here are his responses. There were gloomy faces, uninspiring speeches and cheerless applause. Kyrgyzstan drops hot potato 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The government said last month that gross domestic product tumbled at a 1.0 percent annual rate in the first quarter, and many economists expect that already cheerless figure to be revised sharply lower. U.S. economic growth sustainable, rates to rise in third quarter 2015 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z A few miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, it has more than 1,800 businesses crammed into its cheerless 5.2 square miles. Chris Lehane Out-Washingtons Washington 2014-02-26T10:00:03Z Finding his rooms bare and cheerless, he borrows a writing-table, then a bookcase, then a couch and a rug, and soon has all of the furniture in his chambers. Why Charles Dickens endures 2013-12-13T16:57:48Z McKinsey said banks face "a fairly cheerless operating environment", citing muted economic growth, the regression of financial globalization and tougher regulations. Returns fall as banks struggle to rein in costs" report 2013-11-07T00:06:24Z The cheerless outlook for the world's factory floor was repeated across Asia as manufacturers, facing belt-tightening by consumers in Europe, the United States and at home, struggled to increase sales. Asian factory blues deepen in June, exports drop 2013-07-01T06:22:20Z Hiking across it, I passed bleak, scruffy slopes and a lake of cheerless grey. Walking in the Swiss Alps – in the footsteps of a package holiday pioneer 2013-06-14T20:00:00Z The combination of the appalling weather, the cheerless motels, and the 20-hour days was too much for one of the campaign managers and he berated Thatcher until she started to cry. The Accidental Feminist 2013-04-09T08:45:00Z And improve the Korean company's reputation for building cheap but cheerless cars. On the road: Kia Sorento 2.2 turbodiesel manual 7-seat 2013-02-23T08:00:03Z Fearless--fearless Of all that lies beneath; Let the waves still hide, Cheerless--cheerless, All their stores of death. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z The house and the shop had become alike: in each one could now see the empty, cheerless aspect of impending ruin. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z We were unable to reach Lapche village by dusk, and spent a somewhat cheerless night on boulders in drenching rain at 14,600 feet, with no fuel except a few green twigs of dwarf rhododendron. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z A chilliness more piercing than mere frost pervaded the air; and the aspect of the whole scene was cheerless and melancholy. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z A thin cold rain was falling, and the night was cheerless, and without a star; but his heart was heavy, and the dreariness without best suited that within him. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z After the departure of Madeleine, Jules would have found his apartment cheerless, if he had not used it merely for sleeping. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, and uninviting, and not a harbour on it? The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Heavy snow showers fell as we came up and we had rather a cheerless encampment, but with much heaving of stones made good places for the tents. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z It is as though the wet has drenched the population of the town to the bone and drowned their spirits in the cheerless prospect which the rainy season in Cape Town provides. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The wind made a cheerless noise outside, seeking admission to the great hollow house, and died away in the hopelessness of vain endeavour. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He says:—“Dreary and cheerless as were the scenes we were about to leave, we never turned homewards with so little satisfaction as on this occasion.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Finding it impossible to make headway against blinding snowstorms and up the icy crags, they turned their course down to the river itself and made a cheerless camp. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z What though the skies of winter Look cold and cheerless now! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The sorrow of Ceres was therefore merely a poetical way of expressing “the gloom which falls on the earth during the cheerless months of winter.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Upon these slopes a few withered shrubs were growing: leafless, twisted things, tortured by the bitter east winds that swept those cheerless valleys. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z The peasants are as attached to their cheerless tract, which has its one hour of green bloom in the spring, as are the Basques to their beautiful valleys. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z This intelligence had an effect upon the garrison which rendered the prospect of the cold and cheerless winter yet more dreary and forlorn. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z And now the sight of the Czar had rekindled memories of her better days and stirred in her a submissive sense of her cheerless fate. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Life, considered in its parts, is cheerless; but love, regarding it in its totality, points out to it the way of salvation through itself. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z To Henrietta's eye--fresh from the lake-side verdure--and still more to her heart, the northern landscape struck cold and cheerless. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Wandering among forests, bleak, cheerless, and choked with snow, now famishing with want, now cloyed355 with repletion, they passed the dull, cold winter. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z He could hear Florence playing rather a cheerless nocturne by Chopin. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z It was the most cheerless scene that Steve Rush had ever gazed upon. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z In every corner was the cheerless look that betrays the lack of a woman's presence. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Returning upon himself, he finds large tracts of his nature lying waste and cheerless. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The floor was torn up; and while some of the men fired their heated muskets from the loopholes, the rest labored stoutly at this cheerless task. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The hotel windows looked out on the gray, cheerless bay, dotted with yachts. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It is the most cheerful home "on board" the floe, but surely it is cheerless enough. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The light in the doorway was poor on that cheerless December day, but it was enough to show her that the Squire's face was distorted and drawn, altered by some strange shock. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Without it how gloomy and cheerless would his surroundings appear, and what physical discomfort must he endure? Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z It was getting very cold and cheerless there on the sea-side, and she shivered as she turned to look at the completed work, whose progress she had shrunk from watching. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The hovels were as cheerless within as without. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Darkness was ahead, and if the fuel utterly failed it would be doubly cheerless. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Cold, gray, and cheerless as their outward dress appeared, the mountains had more of impressiveness, now that they were covered from base to summit with snow. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z She almost shivered, the place seemed to her so cheerless. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Drear and cheerless—no trace of woman’s habitation—no vestige of intruding, happy children. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z It is one of the most cheerless of rooms, with rude fireplace of bricks, a mantel of painted planks, and two small windows which look into the verdureless yard. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z All the wainscoted rooms are sombre and cheerless, but the memory-haunted study seems most depressing as we stand at Carlyle's hearth-stone and look upon the spot where he sat to write his many books. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z For a long time there had been something vaguely the matter with him, and ever since her mother's death he had sickened visibly, and nothing would rouse him from his pale and cheerless decrepitude. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z We left New York still looking cold and cheerless from the backward spring; here the spring had burst into its full glory. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z With all that is ordinarily called "good" at her command, she had voluntarily chosen a hard and cheerless life, a career which was largely thankless. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Mdme. de Florian and I drove out to White Lodge, and cheerless it looked, so lonely and sad with the black winter trees all around the house. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The poor woman living in the bare and lonely room, cheerless and fireless, sewing night and day to keep starvation from a child, is slowly being eaten by her fellow-men. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Oh! who would think, in cheerless solitude, Who o'er these twilight waters glided slow, That genius, with a time-surviving glow, These wild lone scenes so proudly hath imbued! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z There were neither trees nor shrubs around it, and the aspect of the spot was bleak and cheerless enough, a coloring a dark November day did nothing to dispel. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The Templars, we must recollect, were seized towards the commencement of winter; and at that season a dungeon of the middle ages must have been cheerless beyond description. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z Nature, like the birds, had flown south, leaving the northern world as dead and as empty and as cheerless as a deserted bird's-nest. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z We therefore sent several men to hunt, and the rest of us remained during the day in a situation the most cheerless and uncomfortable. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z But the place was inexpressibly cheerless and dilapidated in the dawning light. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z But there were black masses clustered close above it, as if jealous of its glow, and even as he watched, the rift closed up and the snow was discoloured to a dull, cheerless grey. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z After nearly an hour of cheerless silence, Phalaris, with a desperate effort to relieve the general strain, brought out his brother's lyre and put it into Charmides' hands. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Cynthia's eyes had been caught by the blank, cheerless look of the street outside. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The Rhone looked very cold beneath the stars, and the fields entirely desolate and cheerless. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z It was as cheerless a day as February can produce, but to Warrisden it had something of a summer brightness. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z There was no moon to light me but the sparkle of innumerable stars, and the night was black in the valley and purple about the cheerless hills. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z He felt convinced that he had neglected a sacred duty, and that night, in his cheerless attic room, he knelt by his bed and prayed. Heimatlos Two stories for children, and for those who love children 2012-01-22T03:00:23.673Z Netta lay awake, too, wondering what could have come over Cyril; and seeing nothing but a darkened world, in which Cyril's love was taken away from her, and all was cold, and dull, and cheerless. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Above thy grave the robin sings, And swarms of bright and happy things Flit all about with sunlit wings,— But I am cheerless, Rosaline! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Warsaw in 1844 must have been as cheerless a spot as any in Europe. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z The tumult of feeling, indeed, unavoidably subsided; but it was into a calm,—frozen, stern, and cheerless as the long night-calm of a polar sea. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z "A grey-green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting paper." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The presence and smile of a motherly face in the cheerless cabin radiated sunshine into every neglected corner. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z There is not a trace of vegetation; no foliage, no shrubs, no patches of grass,—all around as far as the eye could reach was a cheerless waste of sand. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z She happened to be down before any one else, moreover; and there were no fires in the rooms, which were filled with a cheerless, pallid light; while outside the prospect was dismal indeed. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z In the counting-house, which was the scene of his cheerless labour, he found, however, a friend; and Maitland, though nearly seven years younger than he, gained first his respect, and then his affection. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Next morning, although almost under the equator, they saw the day dawn gray, and cheerless, and raw. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z After the death of their mother little Abe and his sister Sarah began a dreary life—indeed, one more cheerless and less inviting seldom falls to the lot of any child. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The islands present a cheerless aspect; a rolling country with peat soil, covered with rank grasses, and intersected by low ranges of hills, alternating with marshy rivers and torrents. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Beatrice had returned on the previous evening from a visit to England, and it struck her, perhaps by contrast with the homes of her mother's friends, that the room had a dingy, cheerless look. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z But the cheerless evening closed in, and brought no friend. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z We would do anything for ma’s good, even to going away into the schoolroom—which never before had looked so grim and cheerless—and squatting on our goatskin to cry. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Night was the most trying, cheerless time; for after they had turned into their box-like bunks, they would lie for hours before it was possible to get warm. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z A great number of the passengers, mostly Peruvians, indemnified themselves for the cheerless monotony of the prospect on deck, by intense devotion to the mysteries of the green table in the saloon. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z This cheerless fact had to be taken for granted. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Our cheerless task, however, at length was closed. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z It was about as cheerless an evening as one could very well select for a drive in an open vehicle. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Think of the cheerless mass or vespers vouchsafed to him,—no friendly face, no brother voice, to sweeten worship. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z In doing this, however, the room need not be made cheerless; small rugs, washable curtains and one or two cheerful pictures may be allowed. Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2011-11-25T03:00:11.053Z Next morning at 9.45 A.M. the train stopped by signal at the flag-station of Moyny, a cheerless strip of platform, from which a dead straight road retreated to infinity across a bog. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Perhaps it was the cheerless weather,—the physical and mental strain of these later days,—the thought that their devil was loosed again,—anyhow, a subtle sense of foreboding. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z We arrived at our cheerless chalet in due course, and went to bed supperless, for our food was gone; all very sulky—not to say savage—agreeing in nothing except in bullying Biener. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Whole villages were deserted, the land was going out of cultivation, and the tax-collectors were enjoined to seize the beds and such wretched furniture as the indigent peasants possessed in their cheerless houses. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z To do one's duty sounds a rather cold and cheerless business, but somehow in the end it does give one a queer sort of satisfaction. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z However, I took him into my hut, and for the first time it seemed bare and cold and cheerless. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z March 1817-March 1818 The Shelleys’ new abode, although situated in a lovely part of the country, was cold and cheerless, and, at that bleak time of year, must have appeared at its worst. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z It was a cheerless place, and reminded me of Communipaw in bad weather. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z I find that when I am cheerless a message from the Kaiser always provides a tonic, and that his patronage of the Almighty gives me confidence. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Never had a winter appeared so long and so utterly cheerless as this one did to Solomon Claus. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z It was a cheerless room, fit for the humblest man in Ptolemais, but the unconquered Herod and his lovely princess ennobled it. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z We changed our rooms quite often on our return to Boston; many of them were so cheerless I will not speak of them. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z The day, too, was in conformity with the scene; the sun was obscured, the wind blew through the ruined building, it rained, was cold and cheerless. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z The aspect on a dull cold day is somewhat cheerless. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z On whatever side she looked, the prospect was equally cheerless, and her sole desire was that she might find a refuge from her cares in the seclusion of a convent. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Although Ragni had slept well and dreamlessly, her head felt heavy and she went about in the same cheerless way as yesterday; there was no longer any gloss on anything. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z The devout misanthropy of the hermits induced them to select for their habitations the most gloomy, cheerless, and inhospitable regions they could hunt up. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z An air of cheerless poverty reigned through the apartment. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z We do not rate highly the dry and cheerless conventionalisms of etiquette, but in their origin, they were the fruit of truth, and love. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It was cold and dark and cheerless in the streets. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z A dance on the green among the village girls of four or five years old, formed a pretty rural sight, even when witnessed amid the cheerless snow. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z Raisa, a small and talkative woman who walks with a dancer's grace, is cheerless as she approaches a menorah-shaped monument, regretting that the full depth of the tragedy has yet to be marked. Ukraine Holocaust massacre presaged modern genocide 2011-09-29T09:58:26Z The day dawned grey, cheerless and threatening over a p. 131landscape as grey, cheerless and threatening as the day. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z All within was silent and cheerless as the grave, and in every sound that reached his ear from without, he imagined he could distinguish groans and sighs. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Gray clouds covered the sky, and altogether it was rather a cheerless prospect. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z The room that was kitchen and bedroom and store-room for him was cheerless and somewhat cold. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The night was pitchy dark, the rain was pitiless; half our horses were gone, many of the men were scattered over the cheerless prairie far behind. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z In the enormous crowded districts on each side of the river the gaunt spectre Starvation stalked through the cheerless homes of once industrious toilers, and the inmates pined and died. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z Thus situated, she could have recourse only to the dull, monotonous, and cheerless plan, from which Miss Arbe had turned her aside; that of offering her services to Miss Matson as a needle-woman. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z It was thoughts of this cheerless nature that kept Mr. Pottle tossing uneasily in his share of the bed, and with wide-open, worried eyes doing sums on the moonlit ceiling. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The third stem takes its rise in the cold and cheerless regions of the north, over the source of the ocean, typified by Mimir’s well. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z And even in small suburban gardens, where one often sees a piece of grass lying bare and cheerless in winter, a better use might be made of bulbs. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z The outlook everywhere, even during those blazing sunny days and clear moonlit nights, was cheerless and dispiriting. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z The shadow of death seemed lowering over him, and he lay trembling, shrinking from its approach, shuddering and brooding over the cheerless, the horrible thought—annihilation! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z It was a cold raw morning, with a grey and cheerless sky, and a biting south-wester blowing up channel, and ruffling the water in the Solent. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z It was rather a cheerless breakfast they had, for the coffee was only lukewarm and the bacon half done. The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z The well-known fa�ade of the mansion was blank and cheerless. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The pale May sunshine was almost as cheerless as that of an early spring day in England, for the winter was coming on rapidly, and winter in Africa can be very bleak indeed. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The money so easily earned by Ronny’s nimble feet, Constance’s sweet singing and the talent of the other performers revolutionized matters in the row of cheerless houses, in one of which Anne Towne resided. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Some to and fro for converse flit And on their friends intrude, Or shun society and sit In cheerless solitude; But I can sit, when night descends, At home among a thousand friends. Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z He thereby incurred a cheerless gratitude, but he is a man willing to be disliked. Inside the Bush-Obama administration 2011-08-18T14:40:00Z After a life in which each day was spent in happy anticipation of the pleasures of the next, the calm, quiet existence at The Towers would have been dull and cheerless to Violet. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The view was about as cheerless as the day; the soup-coloured sea, slimy wharves, gaunt, wind-tossed trees, made up a picture that was suggestive of cholera, Yellow Jack, and a multiplicity of unknown horrors. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z What a cheerless thing it was, I thought, to sit through the livelong dripping night with no shelter, and to gaze into the darkness. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z A cheerless edifice—tomb-like; and yet there were some to whom it had grown very dear in the passage of years, and others to whom it was equally dear because of associations. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Toil for them, dawn to dark; with every reward of labor—love and all the delights of life—changed by the unhappy lot: turned sordid, cheerless, bestial.... Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z It will now be understood why Fulk burnt the paper that Violet might not read it, and why The Place was dark and cheerless when they reached it. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z We sank with chattering teeth to our cheerless beds and quivered with the ghostly unreality of this great vibrating unknown. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z A fair man-boy of fifteen summers tossed His wasted limbs upon a cheerless couch. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z No one could have failed to approve of the wonderful transformation Jolly had made in a bare, cheerless lumber room. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Her own convenience, her rooms, her whole house, she would give up, adding her powers of entertainment and enjoyment, rather than make life cheerless or religion repulsive. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z The house had stood empty for many years, its cheerless windows brooding in the sunlight and glaring in the moonlight. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z He went back to his cheerless cave and prayed that death might close his eyes to further trouble. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z She had no eyes for anything but the cheerless view beyond the window. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z It is waste of space to write, "It was a dull, gloomy, cheerless November day"; one takes it for granted that a gloomy November day is dull, likewise cheerless. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Marjorie followed the woman into a high-ceilinged, beautifully appointed, square hall and across it to a mammoth drawing-room, very handsomely furnished, but cheerless, nevertheless. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z They struck him as very cheerless and lonely. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z There were no encouraging signs of life; only old imprints of bears and foxes were left on the surface of the cheerless snows at each camp. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The cheerless poor emerge from their fireless chambers with the grateful emotions of sun worshippers. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z No humane person could look into the houses of the crowded and cheerless streets which lie near the Palace walls without wishing to take the children by the hand into the Palace fields at once. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Following Mrs. Warner up a narrow stairway that led up from a bare, cheerless sitting room, Marjorie was forced to contrast the dismal place with the Deans’ luxurious living room. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Was she not the only joy for which he hoped in his cheerless life, and was he to lose it just as he had found it? A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z She stood behind a cheerless rock, with her face toward the faint red flushes of the sun. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Richmond looked still more cheerless in the cold morning than in the moonlight. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The mountain peak lay bare and cheerless, the earth was rent and ravaged, nothing was visible save rough rubble and colorless heather. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Drops of rain fell here and there,--it was a cheerless morning. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z "If you really feel compassion, you will not, merely from an irritable whim, deprive the prisoners of the only comfort that can be afforded them in their cheerless situation." A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Then he seeks for miles about for suitable grass to cover the cheerless ice floor. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z In this cheerless place our party of six, with nine Tennesseeans,—fifteen in all,—were confined during the months of December and January. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Are the streets of his soul festive with triumph, or are they dull and cheerless in defeat? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z My wife has left me, refusing to share with me my cheerless future. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z This was, however, a cold and cheerless spot at best, with the wide prairie for a pillow, and black clouds, dropping rain, for a covering. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z On land, the night was cheerless and cold. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z I remembered the hour when we had been left by our comrades on first arriving in Richmond, and now these friends sat cheerless and alone, seeming more wretched than ever amid the general joy. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z We were wet through on the marsh, and not at all sorry to return to a comfortable fire in a warm room, instead of the streaming sides of a cold and cheerless tent. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z Over the cheerless desert plain wandered a lonely little figure, pale and sad as Heine's Last Fairy. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z When the grey, cheerless dawn broke we were still plunging shoreward through the ugly cross-sea, making wretched weather of it, not a dry corner to be found forrard or aft. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z We had seen nothing to promise subsistence for the winter, but this cheerless prospect did not interfere with such preparations as we could make for the ultimate struggle. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The left or west wing was but scantily furnished and looked cheerless, as though rarely tenanted. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z At each cheerless meal the silent, invisible presence of Stephanus seemed to take its seat; in the brightest sunlight its shadow seemed to darken the house. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The empty rooms looked more cheerless than ever,—he could not but be perpetually reminded of Johanna. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z The run back to town was cheerless and cold, and singularly symbolic of her state of mind. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z On a cold, cheerless day in the middle of July we arrived at Battle Harbor, a little town at the southeastern point of Labrador, where Mr. Bradley joined us. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z No celestial inspiration Gilds the poet's cheerless den, Kindles his imagination, Stirs his sluggish pen; No divine afflatus, blowing From some charmed Pierian font, Starts the springs of fancy flowing Like the spur of Want. The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z With a powerful effort Marie Marianni subdued all outward signs of the terrible emotion which these words caused her, and returned to her cheerless dwelling. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z But her tone was cheerless, in spite of her best effort. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The weather was cold and cheerless, when, on almost the last day of December, 1399, a strange and sad scene was exhibited in the streets of London. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Then, in the cold, cheerless chamber of ice, she fondly examines the little one. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z About ten times the size of any dressing-room ever constructed, it was still atmospherically cheerless and depressing. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z It was a very cheerless prospect for persons so way-worn and weary as we were, to have incessantly to fight against the elements and other obstacles. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Details of Lesson Procedure Problems and questions to introduce the principle needed to solve this and many similar problems The first-aid room in the school is very bare and cheerless. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics 2011-06-24T02:00:19.850Z The solitary horseman appeared to be the only living object in all that cheerless, dimly-defined landscape. The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z But what a cheerless spot this was, to have aroused the ambition of man for so many ages! My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Many colds would be prevented, if we could know that the morning so balmy and bright, would subside into a cold and cheerless afternoon. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z The rain had again set in, and the prospect which Brand regarded from the windows of his prison was the most cheerless imaginable,—just dingy, yellow walls streaming with water. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z This made it dark and cheerless during most of the year. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics 2011-06-24T02:00:19.850Z Tom Parry smiled appreciatively as the lad galloped up the sharp rise of ground, where Chunky sat on his pony, shading his eyes as he gazed off over the cheerless desert. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z We now moved among them without hearing a grunt of discord, and their sympathetic eyes followed until we were made comfortable on the cheerless snows. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Margaret almost forgot the mills, so filled was her vision with drunken men, untidy women, wretched babies, and cheerless homes. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z "But you, mother, in that big, cheerless house, will break your heart," and she burst into tears. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It had a cheerless and wintry aspect; for the cities and villages and fields were all covered with snow. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Your thoughts and prayers would be but cheerless consolation for a desolate life. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Although the cheerless gray veil had been swept from the frigid dome of the sky, to the north appeared a low black line over a pearly cloud which gave us much uneasiness. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The world seemed, to Nora's imagination, to have taken the dull, cheerless aspect of the day, seen from the under side, from which she had lately been looking at it. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z And I thought you might feel a bit lonely and cheerless, for the weather is nipping cold. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Lady Sarah was sitting upstairs alone—oh, how alone!—in the cheerless bed-room overhead, where she used to take her griefs and her sad mistrusts. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Altogether, with the cloudless, mild days, the birds, the tree-frogs, the butterflies, and the flowers, November did not seem the bleak and cheerless season it has commonly been painted. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z One awakes realizing the wind has abated and sees the cheerless sun veering about the side of the ice shelter. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z O for even her cheerless little room at her aunt's, where at least there were people below her to guard the house! A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z A surgeon saw her cheerless state, And deplored the poor child's fate, She tried to make doll of her finger, And sang to it poor little singer. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z If when in cheerless wanderings dull and cold, A sense of human kindliness hath found us, We seem to have around us An atmosphere all gold. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z She mounted the parapet and peered long and anxiously over the bastions into the cheerless night, listening with strained attention for sound of voice or human footfall. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z There are at least two children now in the cheerless north crying for bread and milk and a father. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z In these troublesome times, gray and somber with woe, the Lutts cabin on Moon mountain was a dismal and cheerless abode. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Everything was gloomy, and dark, and cheerless; and yet the heart of Bernard de Rohan beat high with love, with joy, with expectation. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z What does this mean?’ exclaimed the mother in apparent bewilderment, ‘I saw her poor little precious body consigned to the cold and cheerless grave.’ A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Although the perpetual sun gave light and color to the cheerless waste we were not impressed with any appreciable sense of warmth. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z O, what wives Drag through the cheerless days, what marriages Cling and exhaust to death, and warp and stain The children! Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z In cheerless emptiness we sat and waited for the station. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It was a cheerless existence mostly, as you can imagine, and if it hadn't been for the child I should have broken down long before. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z In the centre is the common field, where the poor and the coloured Catholics are buried,—no heretic being allowed to rest in this cheerless campo santo. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The rough and cheerless winter time had come; all the rivers were frozen up, and snow covered the plain as far as eye could see,--he scarcely noticed it. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Every face looked careworn and cheerless, and every word was something about work or gain. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z Also a waiter from the dining car, announcing breakfast in a cheerless tone. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z "They have disappeared!" exclaimed Grace, as the upper rim of the sun sunk beneath the watery waste, leaving all the sky cold and cheerless. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z The hills no longer lifted buoyant crests to heaven; they grew cheerless and dank as prison walls. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Thirty-five years ago it was a poor little hungry fishing port, chill and cheerless enough, staring straight out over miles and miles of bleak sea. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The foremost horseman halted his speed one moment as he advanced deeper into the cheerless scene. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Her father's house was fast becoming a cheerless place to her. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Heaps of wood, and clothes, and victuals—everybody had to smile As they watched the old roan canter down the crossroad, o'er the hill, To the little cheerless shanty in the hollow by the mill. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z He may say these are but the gloomy fancies of a solitary, cheerless life."—" Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Up and down, up and down, through darkness and rain, and then under moonlight and the stars, until the day dawned and the cheerless sun rose over the sleeping town. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Even with smoke issuing out of its clay chimney, it would have looked cheerless. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Dan's spirit sank in his cheerless solitude, but he toiled on. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Into a grim and cheerless home Love forced his way through barriers tall; Fled wretchedness, and chill, and gloom— The golden sunshine flooded all. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z And if the house was the smallest he had ever stayed in, would not Castle Flint seem cheerless, vast, sepulchral, by comparison? At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Christian's heart sank yet lower in his cheerless solitude. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z At last there came a day—a languid spring day—when a more than ordinary sense of gloom seemed to oppress the now cheerless house. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z The old fishing town itself had lost its chill and cheerless aspect, and no longer looked hungrily out over miles of bleak sea. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z My house is poor and cheerless, but such as it is, thou art welcome to its shelter, and to any services which I can render to thee. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z The Directrice sat down in her cheerless dining-room and ate her breakfast, reading, eagerly at first, and then grimly, the communiqu� of the day. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z They are delightfully cool in summer, but damp and cheerless at all other seasons.... With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z A cheerless prospect for a hungry and footsore Wanderer. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z She seemed to share some great burden of fear with Dan, and it lay heavy upon her, and made the way of life very long and cheerless to the sweet and silent girl. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Among such cheerless surroundings many a Vermonter of the old time began his education, which was completed when he had learned to read and write and could cipher to the "rule o' three." Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z I was at the airport in Mexico City a month or so ago, at the new Terminal 2 -- an airy, if cheerless structure of fragile-looking honeycombed concrete. What if an earthquakes strikes as a plane is landing? 2011-03-14T20:30:00Z What I learned concerning the cheerless family I had entered was as follows:—Lord James Kysington had come to Montpellier for his health, deteriorated by the climate of India. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z But not even the cheerless prospect of a clammy shirt dampened his resolution. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z "No," he replies; "but when the room is cheerless, one looks out of the window for diversion." Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z The hotel, when we got to it, proved bare and cheerless, with every corner crowded with cots. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z From the crests of the hills they had an occasional glimpse of water and of the delapidated Mission, solitary on its cheerless plain. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z For more than twenty years she lived in lodgings, always "cheerless and solitary," her only happiness found in coming day by day to help her brother in his great work. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Like Bud, the little buck was left to shift for himself in a cheerless and friendless world, and Bud felt that he was forever bound to this tiny deer. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z The pale cheerless spring daylight came at last, and Mrs. Gilbert fell asleep just when it was nearly time for her to think of getting up. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z For him there is no human being in whom he can confide, to whom he can turn for sympathy; for him there is only cheerless solitude. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z There beside her bed was the child's crib, cheerless without its sheets and embroidery. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Poetical justice seems to require a setting of the most cheerless poverty for the full development of the lustre of genius. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z But darkness now reigned within our cheerless abode. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z But, oh, the blank grey mornings, the freezing chill of that cheerless dawn, from which the spendthrift's eyes shrink appalled when the night is done! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z I should be lonelier still," he answered, "or at least more unhappy, if I dragged you with me through the cheerless years. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z I followed him into the kitchen, and there, by a cheerless fire, sat Mrs Jardine in Betty's chair, and, poor, hard-working soul, she was asleep, with her head resting on Tom's encircling arm. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z He came in last, and the moment he appeared words froze, smiles vanished, eyes fell, and Papa's piping alone continued to be heard in the cheerless air. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z When these natives turned their eyes to the future world, they had the most cheerless view of their own utter helplessness. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z But they were not; their situation was too serious, and all remained silent, fully occupied in clinging to the tree, and moodily contemplating the scene of cheerless desolation that surrounded them. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z A great puckered white scar covered one cheek and pulled up a corner of the mouth in a cheerless grimace. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z I became absorbed in thoughts, cheerless, if not absolutely sad. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Do you think that a person with this cheerless prospect can pity you down there in the sun? Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z So Bella, having no hope to cling to and seeing no ray of light piercing the darkness around her, began to conceive a cheerless future in which the figure of Cyril did not appear. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z And then she thought of home, and all the coldness of that cheerless greeting smote upon her heart. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z The inside of the house was, if possible, more cheerless than the out. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z The boxes—if caverns resembling the interior of a ship's long-boat, with one end elevated three feet, and equally convenient, can be so called—were cheerless and uncomfortable. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The transfiguring light, which had glorified all with its splendour, had disappeared, and stern reality stood revealed--autumn in its dreariest aspect, autumn cheerless and desolate. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Betsy thought this room small and cheerless, though she did not say so to Napoleon. Napoleon's Young Neighbor 2011-01-24T03:00:18.637Z The camp looked cheerless in the frosty glimmer of its unlighted windows. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z It was on a dark and dreary day in winter, and in that cheerless hour before the closing in of night, that Joseph sat thus in his solitary home. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z In the dusky gloom of that cold, cheerless winter morning the tall, dark form, all dressed in black and closely vailed had glided in like a spirit and taken her seat. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Suddenly I was roused from these cheerless reflections by three discreet taps on my door. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z The little room seemed quite bare and cheerless, but he did not mind that. The Adventures of a Freshman 2011-01-18T03:00:12.083Z He was an empty vessel of the culture, filling his cheerless hours with self-help advice, national fads, and the constant natter of the news. Lessons of the Martin Luther King Assassination 2011-01-17T05:00:00Z I gave it up, and presently dropped into a cheerless doze. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z The camps were cheerless, the doors of main camp, cook camp, and hovel were open, and the snow had drifted in. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z In the melancholy in which he had been plunged life appeared to him so shallow and wearisome that he could not spur himself to the exertion of extricating himself from its cheerless misery. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z It would have been a little cheerless for you had you happened to arrive when we were all out. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z “Cold, cheerless, dark,—as may befit The hour before the dawn is breaking.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And so intensely cold was her cheerless room in winter that the little bottle of milk which was daily left at her door was speedily congealed. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z In the rude interiors of the old-time fireplaces hung soot-blackened cranes, while on cold, cheerless nights the blaze of logs on the hearths "Made the rude, bare, raftered room Burst, flowerlike, into rosy bloom." Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The future will be so cheerless without you. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z The day after the Bahama left us was cloudy, and cheerless in aspect, with a fresh wind and a rough sea. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Mother Liptaka was scarcely able to reply to and send away the crowd of curious inquirers who entered the house, thus adding to its confused and cheerless aspect. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z But the longer we lingered, the cheerless, wretched place appeared to heighten our dejection, so that we hailed the wet countryside as a relief when we walked out again upon it. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Over this dark and cheerless desert, the way is inextricable without the direction of supernatural guidance. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z And it was just the same when he sat down at his piano: before long his hands would drop listlessly from the keys, and he would resign himself to profitless and cheerless musings. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z Fathers and Sons. t was a cheerless Saint Petersburg to which Kropotkin returned—a city in the grip of the powers of darkness. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z In his great, empty house he now longed for nothing but solitude, a spacious, cheerless solitude. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z A stove was burning and candles gleamed, but the place felt cheerless and rather damp: magnificent, but strangely bare, the high walls discolored with age. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z As the day broke, the scene was dismal and cheerless. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z By nightfall the place was reached; a cheerless, rugged spot where the crew had some difficulty in landing. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z "A tense, cheerless climb" is how Graeme Fife describes it in his fine volume, The Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees. Tour de France 2010: Circle of Death marks century of suffering 2010-07-22T06:00:00Z At the controls, a cheerless Caribbean woman with gold crowning her incisors could not determine his fault and let him go. Salvatore Scibona: “The Kid.” 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z Disgust tinged with vitriol suffuses a cheerless season, and that was kicking in. Meadowlands in February? It?s Not the Cold, It?s the Snowballs 2010-05-27T03:11:00Z The settlements and solitary cabins were still passed at long intervals, and the night proved so dark and cheerless, that they put into shore near a small cluster of houses and spent the night. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z Thou hast gone, and mine eye is cheerless through thine absence, and my tears are flowing—O how abundantly! The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments No children came to fill this great, cheerless house with laughter. The Girl From Tim's Place It was a cheerless enough sight, dingy in the extreme, and the woman wondered that the fastidious Gabriel Dasso should have chosen such a habitation. The Princess Galva A Romance Not until 4 o’clock that afternoon did we stop, but everything was dull and cheerless, and it was long before I got over my disappointment. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 But I was so extremely tired by my hard day, that I fell asleep almost instantly in my cheerless hotel room, and was awakened by the morning sun. A Divided Heart and Other Stories The fashion was healthy and economical, certainly, but it was tryingly ugly and cheerless. Household Organization I think most of us had the idea—I know I did—that we would go down ladders into these tombs, and that they would be earthy, cheerless places, more interesting than attractive. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise "Well," he said, veiling his displeasure and sense of defeat with a cheerless grin, "am I going to save your life or not—before we catch our death of cold?" A Poached Peerage Everything except the sea is gray, while the broad-spread rocky surface of the island is cheerless and repelling. The Story of Malta The year 1813 arrived, and the home of the historian, as well as France herself—it was the time of Moscow—looked very cheerless. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The "man with his sleeves rolled up" does not hasten in the process of "wiping his hands on the cheerless towel" even after the requested check has been received and cashed. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper Dusk—and a hunger for your face That grows, with brooding twilight, deeper, While in this hushed and cheerless place, The world lies, like a careless sleeper. Challenge Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won, And although the way be cheerless, We will follow, calm and fearless. The Story of Our Hymns We groped our way downstairs, lighted another candle, and sleepily devoured some sandwiches and milk—a necessary but cheerless process, with all the coziness of the night before conspicuously left out. The Jonathan Papers But as the years went by and, despite his incessant toil, his life and his home grew more cheerless and poverty-stricken, he became hopeless and in a measure reckless. The Home Life of Poe It had been preceded by a season of decay, inexpressibly cheerless and trying to the spirits. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers There was the blank hearth, the dirty floor, and all the odds and ends lying about, looking cheerless enough in the dim light, Tommy felt quite important as he looked round. The Land of Lost Toys But at first I could not believe that this utterly cheerless room was occupied by a member of the baron's family. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History How Simplicissimus endured a cheerless bath in the Rhine Chap. ix.: The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Life in the King's castle in Berlin was very cheerless when Frederic grew up; few of the citizens' homes at that rude time were so poor in love and sunshine. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Nay, even among the Jesuits we may find the working of this same craving after a new ideal in a cheerless life. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. "Then, dearest daughter, let me answer the question ere you have put it, by saying there is a prospect as bright and smiling awaits your acceptance, as that you propose is cheerless and gloomy." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 The stage seemed a cold, cheerless barn, as large as the seating part, and a chaos of stage properties of all sorts and shapes. Rockhaven The day had grown as cheerless as himself. The Key to Yesterday And side by side we leaned over the parapet, and continued to indulge our cheerless speculations in silence. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec Leaving the children, he turned into his cheerless room and lighted the gas. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The same cheerless report was all that could be given today. The Children of the World And glad to escape from the cheerless spot, Mona signified that she would wait his bidding in a private room. Rockhaven After a glance around the rather cheerless sleeping quarters, he returned downstairs, and started in to pick up the threads of the office. The Night Operator Already had the others retreated within their homes; and now all was dark and cheerless along the little straggling street. The Fortunes Of Glencore The surroundings of the camp were cheerless enough, it is true, yet there was nothing cheerless in the atmosphere of the place itself. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines The Frau Professorin Valentin lived in a pretty new house, and occupied large neat rooms, which however, to an artistic eye, with all their tidiness had a somewhat gloomy, cheerless air. The Children of the World It was dark ere a slow-moving stage landed him at the village tavern and a cheerless supper. Rockhaven The Infantry entered on this cheerless waste about three in the afternoon and the Cavalry followed about five. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan All was cheerless and leaden-hued over the wide waste of water; a surging swell swept heavily along, but not a sail was to be seen. The Fortunes Of Glencore They stopped at his lonely, cheerless home to leave Mr. Peek. The Auto Boys' Vacation "And suppose I really did feel neither sorrow nor want, and yet did not find the world utterly cheerless?" The Children of the World His was a cheerless, for it was a friendless, existence. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Cashel sat himself down in the cheerless little den, thinking of the many who might have waited there before, in so many frames of anxiety and torturing suspense. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Having resigned herself to the inevitable, Enid characteristically cast about for means to extract what comfort she could out of her cheerless surroundings. A Traitor's Wooing The old mill, the gray, old house of the miller, empty and cheerless, the pond and the icehouse were but a little way forward. The Auto Boys' Vacation He did not deceive himself about the matter, it was not commiseration for his friend's cheerless fate that burned so passionately in his soul. The Children of the World The spring drew on drearily enough, cold, dull, and cheerless, so that there scarcely seemed a glimpse of hope of better days. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves The four that look north over the billiard-room and the hall; they are the coldest and most cheerless in the house. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) The whole scene is cheerless; sullen hills are all around. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition It was winter, and the journey to the German capital was cold and cheerless. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England She had expected school to be a bare, cheerless place, but this was as dainty as her own room at home. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story The summer months passed by, and for Adèle the little table at the parsonage had become as bleak and cheerless as the autumn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 It was cold, and gloomy, and cheerless—-just such as the world is to the wanderer who, friendless, alone, and poor, would tempt his fortunes in it! Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) Laid him in the swamp and left him in the cheerless spot, a soldier's grave. An Artilleryman's Diary The mysterious appointment puzzled me, but after spending a very cheerless day, I hailed a taxi-cab at eight o'clock and set forth for Chiswick, a district to which I had never before been. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England She ventured into his rooms, which looked unused and cheerless. The Dual Alliance All that he had written was seeming vain and bad; all that he was now trying to write deteriorated with every word painfully inscribed upon the cheerless empty page. Plashers Mead A Novel Mrs. Parkes, you have said that a good, cheerful lie is sometimes very comforting, but—in this case it's not only cheerless and uncomfortable—it's also most embarrassing. John Marsh's Millions A gray, cheerless day, and my feelings were very much the same. An Artilleryman's Diary I was travelling from the sunny South back to the cheerless North. Fragments of an Autobiography Years passed on in this cheerless manner—this living death. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. True, I had mended that matter by the wholly gratuitous invention of a cheerless home and a wicked sister, but I had hitherto found nothing more attractive to descant upon than my own domestic wrongs. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. It was a cold and cheerless day; the Norther was increasing in force, and he saw malaria and sickness all around him. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. She walked through the park, a gray and cheerless place to-day, and felt aggrieved that no one was there to meet her. The Shadow It is a cold and a cheerless theory, and yet now it struck me with a certain melancholy satisfaction to think that, save in the name of parentage, I was not worse off than others. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Gloomy and louring, it seemed to regard her with a cheerless scowl as, shivering with cold and excitement, she unclosed the door, and stepped forth into the moist air. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. Judy wondered wearily what had become of the man, the only man in that cheerless assembly who looked as though he liked dogs. Man and Maid That night, in the cheerless parlor of the Dales, she wrote in watery ink to Maurice that she could not meet him in Paris. Carnival By the dam, with a cheerless visage Walks a Jew, who is ragged and sere. An Outline of Russian Literature Coming home, he organized a third party, for, cheerless and dismal as are those frozen solitudes, they seemed to hold a resistless fascination to all who have visited them. The Greater Republic A History of the United States I have been a bachelor all my life," continued Noah, "and a dull, cheerless life it has been to me. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. By the deepening of the gloom she knew that it was drawing near night, and she looked forward with some dread to spending the long hours of darkness in that cheerless place. A Daughter of the Union Oh, from that ecstatic dreaming Must she ever wake again, To the cold and cheerless contrast—— To a life of lonely pain? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 The Salle d'Audience is a vast, chilly, and cheerless hall in which the appellant follows anxiously the retrial of his case in the formal and dispassionate r�sum� of the magistrates. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 It is painful to turn from its white walls and rafters to the crowd beneath and realize how much darker and more cheerless is the human face when it is void of intelligence. The Religious Life of London The whole pleasant season of May is spent in dismal sorrow; and June is comfortless and cheerless. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards At last, cool and cheerless, the dawn came, and 216 with the first glimmer the three set out along the ridge. The Auto Boys' Mystery Even in that cheerless season of the year, the garden wore a summer smile; the evergreens were so bright and various, and the few flowers still left, so hardy and so healthful. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 And upon that cheerless note the conference ended. Triplanetary All the other rooms were cold and cheerless, so he took them where there was warmth and light. Black Diamonds The damp, cheerless interior, with no furnishing but a rusty stove, a long bench hewn from a log, and a tier of bunks along one side, disheartened him. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life To seek thy burial in the raging wave, And leave me cheerless sinking to the grave! The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem She shrieked aloud in desperation, in terror, in the sense of cheerless, hopeless helplessness. The Scarlet Banner "A cheerless outlook, truly," came a somber thought. Triplanetary It was a cheerless and bone-damp bed to sleep in, but there was no alternative. The Thing in the Attic Nothing seemed to come of this but satisfaction to himself and joy to a group whose homes were cheerless. The Book of Courage There were neither trees nor shrubs around it, and the aspect of the spot was bleak and cheerless enough, a colouring a dark November day did nothing to dispel. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The young Jewish maiden's life is cheerless before her wedlock, as she is shut out from the joys of social gatherings; and, after marriage, cheerlessness gives way to impenetrable gloom. Oriental Women When I went over in the morning, it was cheerless enough. Old Friends and New He thought that when night closed in, some flickering light might give sign of life within,—some faint indication of her his heart was full of; but all remained dark, silent, and cheerless. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The cold and cheerless chamber was once more warmed into a home. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The few, scattered cottages, walled in by the everlasting hills, with the snow-covered Wetterhorn in full view, and the glacier behind it, wore a cheerless and gloomy air in the quick-coming twilight. An American Girl Abroad From the cradle to the grave, in the view of one from the Occident, the Chinese woman's way is a dark and cheerless one. Oriental Women More oppressed than elevated by the cheerless science of his time, he was apt; to look upon life as earnest and almost sad. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 To begin the world anew at his time of life, presents a cheerless prospect. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Herbert made no reply; the swooping clouds that hurried past, heavily charged with vapour, shut out every object; and to him the rugged path was a dark and cheerless way. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The bay, once thickly wooded with masts and dotted with sails, was now blank and cheerless; only the enemy’s cruisers were visible, lying under the opposite shore of Spain. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 All this at the first rapid glance gave us no very bright anticipations; everything looked triste and cheerless. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia For poverty, I reck it not: what is to me the night, Spent cheerless, and in gloom and solitude? The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 It was a cheerless day, and the gloom on our faces was of the deepest. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway It seemed by the flickering light of a match rather a bare, desolate, cheerless sort of place, but they were all too glad to find shelter, to make any complaints. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 It was indeed a cheerless night and a cheerless hour; but not more so than the heart of him who now, bent upon his deadly purpose, moved slowly on towards the common. St. Patrick's Eve I remember well the night this resolution was formed; it was a cold and cheerless one of January. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Parental love is smitten to the dust; Over a little smoke the aged sire200 Holds his pale hands—and the deserted hearth Is cheerless as his heart: but Piety Points to the Bible! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 He does not feel the gnawing hunger of the lonely wait; the emptiness of the world when the parting is over; the empty chair at the table, and the rooms made cheerless by his absence. On the right of the British line Thrice blessed is he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good. Modern Substitutes for Christianity As their company would no doubt prove very acceptable during the long, cheerless days to come, they were taken in without question. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon It was a cheerless place at best, and now the thought of being left there alone had induced a sense of feminine helplessness which overcame her utterly. The Bartlett Mystery Suddenly, to the trained far-seeing eyes sweeping that cheerless waste hungrily, appeared a faint speck of color on one of the sand dunes at the base of the Sphinx. The Song of the Wolf He soon developed into probably the most mournful, cheerless, pessimistic individual in the country, and gave vent to his feelings accordingly. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) Have you well reflected, my dear child, how cheerless your own future prospects will be, if you should persist in your obstinacy? The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels A dirty house, a weeping wife, Children inclined to roam, A cheerless hearth, an empty board— These mark the drunkard’s home. Doctor Bolus and His Patients If in the sombre atmosphere of the Temple a sad and cheerless monotony prevailed, events followed fast on each other in that world from which its gloomy walls excluded us. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I These little acts of kindness left a green spot in our memory of prison life, that still remains as an oasis in the otherwise cheerless desert we passed through. In and Out of Rebel Prisons The girls were the prettiest demure little nuns you ever saw, mute and timid, cheerless and inactive, but kind, good, and gentle. Coelebs In Search of a Wife But notwithstanding this false and unnatural tendency of the public mind, the prospect, though here and there clouded and threatening, was not absolutely cheerless and unpromising. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels It was a chilly evening in November, and a light fall of snow had made the narrow streets and dark lanes dirtier and more cheerless than ever. The Lamplighter The cheerless feeling of a deathbed where not one mourns for the dying haunts me no longer, and I feel not as one deserted and alone. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I The dull sun has vanished: all is gray and cheerless. Portia or By Passions Rocked Little by little it grew as cold and cheerless as the one adjoining, now the personality of Aunt Harriet was gone out of it. The House of Fulfilment These islands, in the heart of this zone, have dull, cheerless and inhospitable climates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" |
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