| 单词 | dreariness |
| 例句 | Then there were days when the dreariness didn’t seem quite as unrelenting to Mariam. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I gave her a halfhearted smile, but I just couldn’t shake my dreariness. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A numbed dreariness descended on the house, everyone moving in slow motion in the gloom of Miltown and recent events. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something that gave heart to one who hated the cold dreariness of winter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on the bed and stared into gray dreariness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking...something that’s gray. To accent the dreariness of this place.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z From these he quoted in part: “Does the whole structure cause an ‘iciness, a sickening of the heart, a dreariness of thought’? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Winter was long that year, the dreariness punctuated only by my weekly counseling sessions and the odd sense of loss, almost bereavement, I felt whenever I finished one TV series and had to find another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole “atmosphere,” so delicately contrived and fitted. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The dreariness of ChatGPT, the soulless works of visual art produced by similar programs seem to confirm that hunch. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z He escaped the gray dreariness of Paris and later avoided army conscription in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 in this sunny shorefront village outside Marseille. Stepping Into the Frame in the South of France 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Hairy Feely, the town’s only recovered alcoholic, is a warning against the dreariness of a dry life. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This inner suburban area is one of narrow streets and mean houses interspersed with utilitarian structures of overbearing dreariness. Frank Gehry's new building looks like five scrunched-up brown bags 2011-01-09T22:30:00Z I can only think that their programmatic dreariness was contrived to drive art lovers back to the permanent collection; if so, it's not a bad thing to aim toward. Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z For most Washingtonians, the arrival of spring means relief from the dreariness and gloom of winter. For more than a decade, butterflies have repeatedly landed on me. I think I’m blessed by the red admiral. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Directed by Martin Prevost, there’s a lot of dreariness in the film, and it is undeniably slow. A Review of 'Violette': Why Isn't Emmanuelle Devos Better Known in the U.S.? 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z It is almost enough to get you past the thinness of its characters — the tormented bully, the lonely Eleanor Rigby of a teacher — and the stock dreariness of its suburbs. Review: The Cryptic Sparkles in ‘The OA.’ Reality Disappoints. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Hildegard Bechtler's sets stress the rundown dreariness of the home Cenerentola shares with her borderline gross stepfather, Don Magnifico, and her shallow and selfish stepsisters, who are ugly in character rather than physically. La Cenerentola 2010-10-11T21:46:00Z The dreariness begins with the setting: 10 acres of rundown buildings on the Gulf Coast that were abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "The Colony": "Survivor" meets the apocalypse 2010-08-07T23:01:00Z So it was quite natural that I drifted toward anglophilia. I set out to collect English literature, TV, cinema, anything to line the dreariness of my Spanish education. Brexit broke my heart: I’m British, Spanish and now completely lost 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “Chance” keeps threatening to blossom into the mordant comedy it ought to be, but the dawdling pace and a general dreariness of mood keep it tied down. Review: In ‘Chance,’ Hugh Laurie Returns as a Tormented Doctor 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z I'm way past the age of looking for rude bits in books and it's a measure of this one's dreariness that I was forced to grasp at the hope of tawdry titillation in this way. Park Lane by Frances Osborne – review 2012-06-07T10:00:01Z For a time — the 1930s, give or take a few years — these artists linked arms to defend modern American art against the dreariness and insularity of the Depression. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z That's not necessarily a compliment, but if I had to choose between the expensive dreariness of "Robin Hood" and the ultraviolent earnestness of "Ironclad," I would root for the low-budget underdog. 'Ironclad': Paul Giamatti leads a fine cast into bloody battle 2011-07-07T19:25:07Z The steady brilliance of the episode’s 23 minutes starts with the interplay of the characters’ sense of humor with the dreariness and callous bureaucracy of the jail. ‘Atlanta’ Has Brilliant Characters. And Some of the Best Acting on TV. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z For many inmates, the prize was a chance to connect with others, to escape detention’s dreariness, and to brush off the stigma of prison. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z He sings well enough - movingly, in fact, in his final solo - but his personality tends to fade into the prevailing dreariness. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z After last week’s Guilty Remnant dreariness, the sight of Nora’s pale, questing face in the first frame felt like a relief. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Later, I would realize that what I interpreted as dreariness or disappointment was more likely a collective hangover from the previous night of parties. In Maastricht, a Taste of Joie de Vivre 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z And Ben’s voice is so artfully glum that there’s comedy in dreariness. Books of The Times: ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Jonathan Evison 2012-08-27T21:49:53Z I miss the turning of the seasons, but I really don’t miss the nine months of constant drizzle and dreariness that is Seattle weather. Heart’s Ann Wilson on leaving Seattle bubble, reconciling with sister and Carrie Brownstein-led biopic 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Many welcomed an opportunity to connect with other inmates, to escape detention’s dreariness and to brush off the stigma of prison, as public opinion and politicians in France take an increasingly hard line on incarceration. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z That’s easier said than done, and “Giovanni” — long, circular, slippery — is one of the hardest assignments for an opera director, with attempts tending to fall into either unremitting dreariness or irritating glibness. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Such dreariness, so it was long believed, hardly needs memorializing. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z As Nick becomes mired in the search for Amy, she confides how romance gave way to marital dreariness, accusations, his mounting loathing, her growing fear. Ben Affleck in David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “Everything that comes to us: dreariness, excitement, boredom, pain, they all add to the richness” of our lives, Philip says late in the play. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Hopen is a stylish, atmospheric writer whose characters inhabit sensuous tableaus, and the palpable dreariness that lingers over Ari’s solitary Brooklyn childhood is all-encompassing. A Sheltered Teenager Moves to Miami and Learns a Few Things 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Some style in the direction or honest feeling in the screenplay could have mitigated the dreariness, but “Mare” doesn’t offer much beyond Ben Richardson’s burnished cinematography. Review: Kate Winslet Returns to HBO, Now as a Small-Town Cop 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Both are about young people trying to rise from poverty and escape the dreariness of everyday life. "The Commitments" hits stage with tunes, Irish lilt but no horse 2013-10-09T14:07:40Z Acting as his own editor and cinematographer, Soderbergh will cut off extended dialogue scenes blankly, hinting perhaps at some essential banality or dreariness in Mike's off-stage life, and the lighting has a subdued, filtered look. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-12T14:29:01Z Also remaining from Season 1 is the distinctive visual palette, established by the onetime music video director Hiro Murai, that cuts dreariness with pops of color and aerial views. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Though these artists don’t share much in the way of sound, image or background, there is a common thread — an overarching regional dreariness typical of the Northwest, which resonates with local youth. Eastside punk, South End rap – something in common? | Concert preview 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “The Thick of It” is shot in the shambolic mid-aughts style of “The Office,” emphasizing the dreariness of governmental employment. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Because if these rare sparks of inspiration were to fizzle out altogether, those of us who love the movies could be facing a cultural desert of Tatooine-like dreariness. Rise of the apes: how Rogue One's strange birth lays bare Hollywood's imagination drought 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z But although Friday in Washington seemed definitely damp, its daytime dreariness seemed curtailed by its quota of cherry blossoms and other early spring sights. Even gray days like Friday look brighter with cherry blossoms 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z For the workforce left behind, the mission of helping the poor and disabled soon collapsed into the dreariness of an assembly line. Social Security offices critical to disability benefits hit breaking point 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The dejection, disappointment and dreariness that was the first half of the 2022 season certainly warrant a respite from thinking about the current state of the franchise. Nationals enter All-Star break reeling with Soto’s future in question 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z And, now and then, to enhance the sensation of dreariness, rain did drip from the grayness. Coolest day since May also seemed perfectly cloudy 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z By mid-winter, it’s not the cold temperatures that get to me, it’s the persistent dreariness of it all — the heavy, gray skies, early dusk and barren trees. Oranges with ricotta is a simple, sunny dessert to banish the winter blahs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Will swagger steer us away from all the dreariness? Is New York Ready for the Mayor of Swagger? 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z "Perhaps I was unconsciously influenced by my brother. He had made it. I was desperate to get out of the dreariness I was living in." US actress Joan Copeland dies aged 99 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, as usual, there are decisions to be made indoors while the remedy for the dreariness of those decisions will come outdoors, in the coming games. Analysis | From the Palouse to the Smokies, Saturday told of a nutty land with a nutty week ahead 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z But he doesn’t miss the dreariness of online schooling, when every day was the same: a long, dull blur of doing nothing. They moved for in-person school during the pandemic. Now they must decide: Stay or go? 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The small amount of rain seemed to deepen the dreariness. In single day, skies went from somber to smiling 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Most of all, though, it becomes a temporary escape from the dreariness and disappointment of their middle-aged, middle-class existence. Review: In the high-spirited Danish dramedy 'Another Round,' they drink, therefore they are 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z After the dreariness of postwar England, it was like seeing colors for the first time. Terence Conran, British tastemaker who popularized modern design, dies at 88 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z But rather than grind through the dreariness, perhaps it’s time to celebrate or surrender to it and turn your space into a cozy cabin. Tired of winter? Make your home a haven | Produced by Advertising Publications 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Her words were politician-careful, almost to the point of dreariness and yet, somehow, she dazzled. US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar: ‘I always stand up to bullies’ 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The president’s incoherence was remarkably well matched by the dreariness of the generally expectable, largely thought-free questions he was asked on a limited set of topics. The Donald and the “Fake News Media” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z And keeping track of calendar and clock time only drew attention to the dreariness of nursing-home life, where each day was more or less like the last. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z This same juncture 20 years ago found the French players lamenting the dreariness of their own home audience in the semifinal against Croatia. France is the World Cup power in final vs. Croatia, 20 years after winning it as underdog 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Tired of late winter’s dreariness and kids with cabin fever? Lake Chelan: Family fun in the winter sun | Provided by Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z While some British designers fight against the country’s climate by whitewashing walls and installing abundant lighting, Toogood, like Atalla, embraces its dreariness. A London Penthouse, in Shades of Gray 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Once the rain subsided, the real dreariness set in. Bryce Harper leaves game with apparent knee injury 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z São Paulo’s creatives punctuate the dreariness with cultural manifestations not just in the form of street art, but also in the city’s vibrant gastronomic and music scenes. 'Leniency is over': the controversial plan to scrub off São Paulo's famous street art 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In all this dreariness, there was a bright spot for the Los Angeles sports landscape. Time is running out for the Dodgers as Game 6 looms in Chicago 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The dreariness of safety in mid-April is a state of affairs both sets of fans would happily have settled for had they been offered it at the start of the season. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The terrain is difficult, but I experience the sort of ecstatic contrast that Thoreau described: “My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness.” The Walker and the Saint 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Together, these elements keep the movie from getting too bogged down in dreariness. ‘Strangerland’ sets a frightening tone 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The board also heard from executives of the agency about their efforts to alleviate the dreariness of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. With New Leader After Bridge Scandal, Port Authority Moves to Add Transparency 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It was a fitting conclusion to a World Cup that alternated between high drama and cynical dreariness. World Cup 2014: Final Between Germany and Argentina Could Surprise Fans 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Go ahead, designate the savior who can make a difference with this franchise, who can lift it out of this pollution fog, who can break the solid, unredeemed dreariness it has existed in since 1999. Jenkins: Sally Jenkins: Mike Shanahan may leave, but the Redskins’ problems will remain 2013-12-30T01:47:24Z The infancy of the season and the relative dreariness from ostensibly threatening opponents — looking your way, Michigan State and USC — present opportunity for growth. Old Irish strengths now weaknesses 2013-09-08T22:33:00Z For all the dreariness of Bisanda Road that morning, Sampat felt a certain pride when she looked at the road, for it did not exist before her arrival here in 2005. India’s Pink Sari Vigiliantes 2013-08-06T08:45:00Z The negative drag created by cuts in government spending at all levels explains some of the dreariness, as do Europe’s woes and a slowdown in China, but not all. It’s not the economy, stupid 2012-08-10T11:45:00Z In the rosy dawn of a summer's morning he had left the monastery of Innisfallen, and he now felt in every sight and sound the dreariness of winter. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z I find the topic fascinating in its own right, and it also provides therapeutic relief from the dreariness of health policy in the United States. Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: Currency Unions in the United States and in Europe 2012-04-27T10:00:49Z They are never lightened by any pictures, and no artist has ever attempted to vary the dreariness of school life by any sketches from nature or any scene from human life. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z 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 Early in January Minnie Newton took cold, drooped in the chilly dreariness of the old house, and died before the spring came in. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z The dreariness and desolation of an Arctic landscape are well described by Hayes. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Then we descended to that acme of dreariness and morbid misanthropy, the sunken chamber where are buried the royal family of Spain since Charles V; one somber coffin rose above another in the dark place. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The huge, gray Velebit Mountains still bore us company on our voyage to the South, but they were losing their almost wicked look of dreariness. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z We, on our side, declared it worse than folly for them to go from Bunessan to Tobermory, the dreariest spot in all the dreariness of Mull. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z In this one spot the dreariness of the rest of the building became a stately melancholy. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z The dreariness is suddenly interrupted by a gang of children, who march out bearing trays of Oreos and glasses of milk as “You Do Something to Me” plays on the soundtrack. Advertising: The Oreo Turns 100, With a Nod to the Past - Advertising 2012-02-28T01:38:23Z The room seemed to grow darker, the house more silent, the road on which they looked through the unglazed window more dusty, squalid, dreary--dreary with the summer dreariness of drought. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z How wide a waste of barren dreariness in front ere she might hope for rest. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z No one who has not tramped in Skye can imagine its dreariness. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z There is no atmosphere to relieve the dreariness. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z How many babble of the cloistered life, chilled by dreariness and disappointment! The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z In after days the minds of the Negroes oft reverted to the darkness and gloominess and utter dreariness of the day when Maurice Dalton died. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z Dyer in all his dreariness could not understand why Mr. Drake should desire to benefit his fellow creatures at all; but, more than that, he was actually proposing to do good stealthily. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Time seemed to be mantling over us, and the breath of heaven to be becoming less and less perceptible in our dreariness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z If the thought of a health-related gift inspires the same feeling of dreariness as receiving a mail-order fruitcake or a six-pack of tube socks, it's time to broaden your horizons. Great gift ideas for healthy holidays 2011-12-19T17:24:04Z Well is the kingdom of God compared with the summer season, for then the clouds of our dreariness pass away, and the days of life shine through the brightness of the eternal sun. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The continued uncertainty and overall dreariness of the economy doesn’t seem to be dampening consumers’ holiday spirits. Consumers to Spend $6 Billion on Holiday Decorations this Year 2011-12-07T12:05:33Z Before May had clambered to her side, the clouds met again, and dimness and dreariness were over all. The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z The dreariness of this little prison can scarcely be described. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z I could recite pages of it to myself to relieve the dreariness of those long drives in the Third Street car, or the long waiting in the dreary station. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z It contrasts favourably with Ibsen's harsh bitterness, with Gorky's maudlin dreariness, and with the hysterical outbursts of pessimism from the manikins who try to see life from the mighty shoulders of Schopenhauer. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z In the distance a timber wolf howled and the long mournful note emphasized the dreariness. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z And yet she had a vague dread of the dreariness and emptiness of a world in which he no longer lived and moved, and doubted her power to adapt herself to its strangeness. The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z The unspeakable dreariness of an auction was upon it. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z I hope all the later experience didn't turn to worse dreariness and weariness—it was probably kept human and "vivid" by the whole associated elements of drama. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z A glance at Lady Tintagel's engagement book showed her that the prohibiting acceptance was for a dinner and concert at Lady Awcock's, where all that was stately and Victorian spent evenings of unparalleled dreariness. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z And to-night she felt a faint gleam of consolation in the surrounding dreariness in the thought that he had not been successful. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z "Life is a burden to me; I loathe it," she writes to Maurice, dating her letter "December 40th," doubtless to express more forcibly the length and dreariness of her days. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Juliet, more affrighted than themselves, uttered the softest petition, for a few hours' refuge from the dreariness of travelling by night. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z It had, as Brenda said, "a wide-awake look," whereas formerly almost all the blinds had been closed, giving an aspect of dreariness. Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z Conceive, if you can, of the lonesomeness, the dreariness of going to sea without a dog. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z My story-books were like mirrors filled with the bright reflection of other women's lives, and, as I read, my own appeared there in all its dreariness! Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Its tragic dreariness presented a subtle correspondence with his own temper. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It was the agony of an exceptionally refined, charming, and sensitive soul, who suffered beyond measure from banality, coarseness, dreariness, nothingness, violence, savagery—the whole horror and darkness of modern everyday existence. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Accordingly they crossed in the boat to some quiet spot, open and unreclaimed, but very far from such dreariness as the mention of a desert suggests to us. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z With muffled steps, I left the igloo and paced the dreariness of ice, treading slowly, lest, in the darkness, I slip into some unseen crevasse of the open sea. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z But the utter dreariness of the poor child’s soul was overwhelming. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Early in the dreariness of November, they have vanished with all the horde of summer residents who have made the season of leaf, flower, and fruit the brighter by their presence. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z When he began, Wood remembers, this period had “a reputation for dreariness and insignificance,” as “the most boring part of American history to study and teach.” Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution 2011-07-22T20:44:19Z And the dreariness of it had haunted her. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Then nothing is visible but slow-swaying gray masses, which veil all objects in a shroud of ghostly dreariness. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Ontario had helped her, and now, strange as it may appear, in the intense cold and dreariness of this Yukon country she had lost all signs of weakness, and considered herself a strong woman. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z All this scene is cheerful and pastoral, like one of Greuze's landscapes; but the bare hills that follow the undulations of the left bank show only dreariness and aridity. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z For the cruelty and injustice done at first reluctantly has evidently become to him a necessary alternative to the dreariness of his business life. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z The huts looked dilapidated, and there was an atmosphere of dreariness over the whole establishment. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z But no, the description of the dreariness of Sunday evening, utterly 441 silent but for the passing of the people going to evening sermon, is admirable.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It would have been nearly ludicrous, but for the deadly dreariness of the scene, the ghostly grimness of the picture, the all-pervading nervous atmosphere of the impending unknown. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z The pestilence soon showed itself here, and the flight of most of the inhabitants augmented its desolateness and dreariness. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z This disaster had increased, to an insupportable degree, the vacancy and dreariness of her existence. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z The cabin was cold with the chill dreariness of any house that is left long without the warmth of an embodied human soul. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z A life of incredible dreariness—yet possessing a certain "grip" of its own. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z There is this dreariness of work in the boiling heat. Imported brides 2011-05-23T00:19:45Z At first this sound had no other effect than to aggravate the dreariness of all around her. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z When the light of a bright Sunday morning awoke her, she opened her eyes again to the full dreariness of her situation. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z "Yes," said the girl, with all the irony gone from her voice, only the dreariness remaining, "I'm waiting." Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z It came pattering among the leaves, breaking up the gloom with opposing dreariness. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z It is, however, a heartfelt cry over the dreariness of the time the 'whole world over,' and I am sure many will acknowledge the truth of it. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z The world beyond the grave was a place of unspeakable dreariness. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In any other country but France, this preoccupation would have led to dreariness and pedantry, if not to a permanent and sterile isolation. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z I loved you long ago in my lonely childhood, when your rare visits came like sunny flashes across my dreariness and I used to stand at my window to watch you ride by each day. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z But it appeared to her that this affection sprang out of the dreariness left at her hearth after the two children died. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z "I wish I had three days with you in your breezy atmosphere to shake off my dumps and my dreariness." Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Whatever he accepted or expressed with joy, she felt was true, knowing as well as she did the past emptiness of his understanding, and the dreariness of his feeling as an individual. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z The dreariness and emptiness of his house made no impression upon him. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z It was a silent group that Amos left, all meditating upon that swift equestrian figure, pictured against the dreariness of the rainy dawn, and the grey mist, and the shadowing mountains. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z She felt something like joy singing through the dreariness of her life, whenever the image of this young man presented itself. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z My flurried action of the heart has greatly left me, and except a sense of deep dreariness and dislike to do anything—even speak—I am as I used to be. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z But if one looks beyond the dreariness close at hand, what a wondrous view stretches away all round! With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The dreariness of the long Northern winter was past. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z The dreariness of the weather without adds to the sense of discomfort within the half-dismantled house. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Labrador is so grandly wild and desolate," he said, "that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.... Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z My gout will not fix, but hangs over me with dreariness and 'devil-may-careisms,' so that though I have scores of great intentions I can do nothing. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z All its monotony, all its misery, its shabby dreariness, its dreary shabbiness, rose up before her with redoubled force; and the terror of that hideous existence smote her like a stroke from a giant's hand. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z I am old and feeble enough to be able to say to him who wearies me, Leave me—leave-me to myself and my own dreariness. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z They fill you with so great a dreariness that it amounts to pain. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z The small gas-jet that lit up the well of the staircase, served to show the dirty walls in all their dreariness. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z I set off for my post immediately, and hope that a new place, new situation, and new people may rally me out of my dreariness. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Slowly she was returning from the bliss of insensibility to the awful dreariness of life. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z To go back to London," cried Sybil, "to the house in Lancaster Gate, to the dreariness of a dull dinner there. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The heart sinks a little as you look at the shivering dreariness of it all. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z With a thorough conviction of all the dreariness of this scene, Mr. Merl stood at the window and looked out. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z It all came to me, back there at the window—the dreariness, the emptiness of—everything, without you. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z So their busy hands kept loneliness at bay, even amid the dreariness of the wintry wilderness. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z She thought of the whimper of the wind, the thunder of the surf against the rocks; the dreariness of the country. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z As she formed this resolve a vague remembrance of past annoyances came over her mind, producing a sense of the utmost dreariness. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-01-26T03:00:28.110Z By imperceptible degrees a greyness touched the back of the waves, more a dreariness than a dawn, but more welcome than thousands of gold and silver. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Life at the Dale Street flat had settled into a monotony of discontent and dreariness. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z “I well remember,” writes a Forty-Niner, “the loneliness and dreariness amid all the excitement of the time.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But the main industry of the Roseland towns and villages is connected with mines and quarries, the acme of arid desolation and dreariness being reached at Gwennap. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z No golden sunlight ever threw Its lustre o’er his room; No gladsome voices ever cheered Its dreariness and gloom. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z For a long time 86 he sat there breathing stertorously while the untended fire died away to ashen dreariness. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The second prophecy made up in a measure for the dreariness of the first. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Is there no way of teaching duty without making it repulsive by its dreariness and ugliness? Household Organization Some of these walls are redeemed from utter dreariness by the pendulous cactus which hangs from their tops, fringed with yellow bloom. The Story of Malta The real workers and builders he thought were the silent soldiers fighting and working in all the dreariness and discomfort of camps in foreign countries. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Torpor and dreariness greet me; All of the things I abhor Rise to confront and defeat me, As I ride to your door... Challenge Just as soon as I paint a few of its drearinesses we'll be leaving it forever. The Reclaimers There was a dreariness about the ministrations of this Notting Hill Mission which had been absent from the atmosphere of Burgos Cathedral. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Now it was that I realised the full dreariness of winter. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec But all this dreariness and inhospitality could not damp the spirits of our young pair. The Children of the World The world had woke up for her wedding, Norine thought, snow and dreariness were gone, spring, in Eden-like freshness and bloom was with them. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir The Frenchman, glowing with national pride, drunk: "France—the moon whose mild, steady, cheering rays are the delight of all nations; consoling them in darkness and making their dreariness beautiful." Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Presently she began to give him an elaborate account of the journey from Austria, and Michael knew that exactly in proportion to its true insignificance was the care she bestowed upon its dreariness and dust. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The gaiety of spring, the smiles of summer, the secundity of autumn, and the dreariness of winter, all combine to celebrate the Author of universal existence. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact And this life which our modern writers describe is one of appalling dreariness. Stand Up, Ye Dead A cold wind sighed round the corners of the temple and added to the prevailing dreariness. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance This old woman's thin quavering voice, and the weary blue eyes with which she looked so sadly on me, increased the dreariness of the place and sharpened the recollections that came crowding over me. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales To him the dreariness was the more poignant for the half a dozen little shops that still flickered their challenge to fate in the guise of a dim coal-oil lamp in the window. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play To make the situation more depressing, there came on a cold rain, and the dreariness without was a fit index of the desolate hearts within. "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale There is no dreariness in charging a direction and using up a special expression and seeing that sustain reorganisation. Geography and Plays All things are the same, but I,—only I am dreary, And, mother, of my dreariness behold me very weary. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II The reek of cooking seemed to become more obvious, and the dreariness of Sundays more pronounced. Patricia Brent, Spinster Margaret"—here he came back to her—"think of the dreariness of it; leaving everything else aside, just think of that. East Angels This commanded an extensive view over a great wooded and desolate plain, to which the appearance of the heavens gave at the moment an air of additional dreariness. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. There is no dreariness in having some reception. Geography and Plays “I am afraid there is no such thing left for me,” he said with an elaborate dreariness. Bye-Ways And so in a less serious mood, the sisters pursued their way round the November dreariness of Hyde Park, at the season when:— "Remote, unfriended, solitary, slow, �Scarce one lone horseman paces Rotten Row." Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. What other exile could have taught any secrets of monotony or dreariness to the daughter of a lone missionary? Where the Pavement Ends It seemed in mysterious fashion as though the stateness of custom had been left behind, with other drearinesses of the long winter, and the coming spring had vivified her life. Lady Cassandra There is no dreariness in success and selling a picture and arranging an exhibition. Geography and Plays In orthodox places of worship there is often much of dreariness. The Religious Life of London The wail of the child lost in that dreariness had brought back, like a lightning’s flash, the earliest memories of his life and revived his never-dying hatred of his parent’s slayers. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Every step is a surprise, owing partly to the above cause, and partly to one's being inured to the almost universal dreariness and ugliness of the villages and small towns of this part of Spain. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Sometimes the nuns tried to console themselves in the cloister itself for the dreariness of their existence. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) There is no dreariness in four galleries and five cities and a packer. Geography and Plays In reading these familiar and gossipy letters, one is painfully impressed with a sense of the dreariness of the Northern regions. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Yet the prince felt all the dreariness of his situation. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Vefela could not be with him always, and he now felt doubly the dreariness of his lot. Black Forest Village Stories It was all in the disappointed dreariness of an unsatisfied heart that she took to benevolence! Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day But in spite of its dreariness, the house attracted her. Jan Vedder's Wife I cannot hope to make you understand how the dreariness of the place struck me, and what a chill it set upon my heart. Long Live the King The gloom and dreariness suited well the "habit of his soul." St. Patrick's Eve "Not that, Frank," said she, in confusion; "if he were indeed kind to you,—if he were a true friend in that time of dreariness and gloom." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life "It must be dreariness itself in winter," remarked Earl, to his uncle, as they trudged along side by side. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon Something in the intense dreariness of his tone struck painfully on Florence's ear. A Life Sentence A Novel Scared looks, noiseless footsteps, muffled whispers—strangeness, dreariness, everywhere. Leonore Stubbs In the vast loneliness of the Roman Empire, men felt the need to draw together in order to escape the dreariness of life. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance In the gayest part of London I felt the dreariness of a desert. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The stormy dreariness outside the cot, the atmosphere of sorrow and loss within it, were depressing beyond words. Prisoners of Conscience When the Cash Inquirer stumbled, and took an involuntary leap into the middle of the bed, an awful voice came out of the dreariness, saying, “There is a chair right there behind you.” The Witches of New York It came over her like a cloud, the poverty, the hopelessness, the dreariness of it all. Stories of the Foot-hills The wintry afternoon closed swiftly, and, in its dusky dreariness, Salome listened to the tattoo of the rain on the roof, and to the miserere that wailed through the lonely chambers of her soul. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The white dreariness of my room chilled me. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 The dreariness of the night finds its echo in my heart. A Monk of Cruta "I suppose so," said Ruth in a voice that for dreariness was a replica of his own. Doubloons—and the Girl Now that he was really gone, and she was left to the dreariness of her own reflections, she grew wan and white with misery. Stories of the Foot-hills “What’s happened?” exclaimed several voices with anxious unanimity, while Peggy hurried to light the lamp, the dreariness of the shuttered house proving depressing to the spirits, as well as a practical inconvenience. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted "What!" says Hermia, lifting her brows, "am I to learn now that you—the gayest of all mortals—have at last succumbed to the insufferable dreariness of this merry world?" Rossmoyne Fancy cannot conceive a greater dreariness or deeper destitution. Oliver Goldsmith There was a dreariness in her tone which went to Rupert's heart. Under False Pretences A Novel The horrible dreariness of such a house, at the end of such a journey, I have often heard both relate.” Threads of Grey and Gold She could have got over the dreariness and discomfort of Caspar's home, if Caspar had but loved her. Brooke's Daughter A Novel “He draws the dreariness rather mild, but you can make out he knows the place.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Even Square-toes has a certain vivacity when his stake is imperilled; but the dreariness of a game with you I positively lack language to depict.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) He brought together every element of dread and terror,—barrenness, brokenness, dreariness, fearful cold, blinding fog, crushing ice, sudden savage change. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 He had exercised too constantly the highest faculties of fiction, and he had precipitated himself into the dreariness of real life. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors "I know only one thing that can preserve it from commonplaceness and dullness and dreariness." Brooke's Daughter A Novel Nobody, if one examined into it, was happy; all this pretense was pathetic to the point of dreariness. Aurora the Magnificent The sullen sky overhead added its tone of dreariness to the picture. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart It appeared that the dreariness of the long hours had lessened. The Peace of Roaring River I turned away with a sense of deep sadness; the very sunshine seemed blurred with a shadow of dreariness and shame. The Thread of Gold “Here!” he looked about, as though the dreariness of it was first noticed. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West She was already foretasting the dreariness of life without the critical, corrective, and withal stimulating presence of her elder child. Kildares of Storm Two low thatched cottages—the only houses they passed in this lane—seemed to add to the dreariness. Tom and Maggie Tulliver By such light matters was the dreariness of waiting days lessened. The Flute of the Gods Dusk was now deeper, and after he had once more taken counsel of the dreariness without he turned to his companion. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II I will in quiet lie, Nor profit nor delight in blood have I. Like blustering storms from wintry skies that roll, Tears waste with grief and dreariness the soul. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad At every step Theodora met with some object to impress her forcibly with the dreariness of the fate which was at hand. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. These works, though transcending in dreariness most directories of worship, are yet of great value for the light they throw on the history of Indian manners and ideas, as well as on that of mythology. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems It was long before Beatrix dared trust her voice to speak, and then Miss Gannion was startled at the utter dreariness of her tone. The Dominant Strain There was an eminent dreariness and want of life—so rare in an American establishment—all over the abode. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The result is delightful; instead of the hideous dreariness of an institution, we have a real home. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London Then she seemed to catch for the first time the dreariness of his whole attitude––the dejection of his spare angular body and sparrowlike, anxious face. Once to Every Man Still, he could not help speculating as to what she had said and thought on that morning when she awoke in the winter dreariness, and, gazing round the cabin, found that he had vanished. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin The authors he mentions would furnish a welcome relief from the unspeakable dreariness of over-annotated texts. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Only this spot of light broke the monotony of dreariness. The Flying Mercury There was something of a corresponding dreariness in his whole attitude, as though the waters of tribulation had gone over his life and left it a veritable Drowned Land, its hopes engulfed, its greenness dead. Treasure Valley The tree-toads, beginning their nightly chorus from the wet places below the cottonwoods, emphasized the dreariness of the recital, the ancient hopelessness of the weak beneath the heel of the oppressor. Tharon of Lost Valley There was a pride and a thrill in it, followed almost immediately by a sense of dreariness. The Rainbow New illustrations, novel forms of definition, are often helpful in expelling the dreariness of outworn and meaningless phrases. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Nor less in large towns, as in Glasgow, were they struck by the dulness and dreariness in the aspect and demeanour of the dim ‘common populations.’ Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 But, after all, what brought Hugh the best comfort, was the discovery that advancing years did not bring with them any lack of sensitiveness, any dreariness, any sense of dulness. Beside Still Waters Located in the Isle of Axholme, in the midst of a long stretch of fen country bounded by four rivers, and for a great part under water, Epworth was at that epoch dreariness itself. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Underneath a top elation was a sort of dreariness, deep, ashy disappointment. The Rainbow But to-night the sun went down in a colourless silver glow, which prophesied winter and storms, and to Duncan the grey dreariness seemed in keeping with his feelings. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro She had not known the dreariness of a long winter here. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia There were peacocks kept in the grounds, whose shrill feminine screams of despairing reproach were always inseparably connected with the dreariness of the place. Beside Still Waters A sense of dreariness, as new as it was strange, swept momentarily over Nan as she pondered this. Not Like Other Girls There seemed a sudden dreariness in the world like a bright day clouding over. A Modern Cinderella The Pine is the established emblem of everything that is "high and lifted up," but always with a suggestion of dreariness and solitude. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare The leaves were all off the trees; the hills were brown; but the soft warm light that still lingered upon them forbade any look of harshness or dreariness. The Wide, Wide World A strange silence and dreariness brooded over the region. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Well, if you think of it sensibly, you will see that there was a certain dreariness in this uniformity of satisfaction. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy The dreariness of the solitudes between Little Namaqualand and Griqualand West, the latter slightly more smiling than the former, attests this fact. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.... English: Composition and Literature Such a testimony will go far to redeem the ordinary drudgery and dreariness of public life, and I shall ever cherish it with real satisfaction and pride. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II There was an indescribable dreariness about it all which quickened the acute agony of those few moments. The New Tenant The horrors of that fearful illness, the dreariness of that slow convalescence, could not be told. The Orphans of Glen Elder Despite the dreariness of durance long and sore, Where fate's relentless hand still holds me fast, My dungeon I have made my treasure-house; its store Is love, and hope for freedom at the last. In Château Land The studio was brilliant with gas-glare and warm with the breath of anthracite, but an aspect of dreariness, silence, and sorrow predominated. Macaria Yet the end for me was illimitable dreariness; and like Archie in Weir of Hermiston, I seemed abroad in a world from which every hope of intimacy was banished. Apologia Diffidentis The shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place, when the party entered the ruins of William Henry. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 They stopped by the rails presently, looking out upon the tumbling seas that rolled out of the sliding haze tipped with livid froth, and the dreariness of the surroundings intensified the girl's depression. Hawtrey's Deputy Thus there are seldom distant views to be obtained, and every thing near presents a scene of simple dreariness and desolation. Hannibal Makers of History They had not been very happy there, but many people had been very kind; and the place, with all its dreariness, had a strange, still charm, and was full of historic beauty and romantic associations. The Martian The others departed to their several rooms and he was suffered to go to his, but the loneliness and dreariness made reading impossible and his thoughts drove him out. The Wooden Horse I should surmise that the mere names of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, etc., would fall upon their ears with a dreariness of memory like the tolling of chapel-bells. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The situation was comical enough to cause amusement to both; both being brilliant, they found enough interesting material for conversation, which helped them over the dreariness and monotony of prison life. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature He went to bed with a headache, feeling already the dreariness of London without friends. The Hero Elizabeth knew from experience the dreariness of housework where all individuality is denied the worker. The Wind Before the Dawn O sir!" said he, "it isna the dreariness o' the road that I am referring to. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 The dreariness of the virtue of the villeggiatura is as noxious as the whirl of the mercenary and little virtuous period of the season. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) The emptiness and dreariness that you theorize about will become stern realities: you'll pine, when it's too late, for human affection and some hold on life. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice The croaking of these frogs, whose manifold tones blend together in confused union, augments not a little the distressing dreariness of a forest night. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests It seemed to her the symbol of her old life of dreariness, which she imagined had gone from her. The Chautauqua Girls At Home The same dry empty dreariness that her own days contained, the restless hopes that died too hard, the unsatisfied, cruel dreams? To Love In short nothing could exceed the dreariness of the coast. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 "I've changed my mind," she said, dreariness still in her voice. No Clue A Mystery Story The dreariness of her solitary life she might have borne, but her bodily infirmities had become intolerable. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The cemetery was growing colder now, and he wakened, oppressed with the dreariness of it all. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives There was only one shred of comfort in all this dreariness. To Love The landscape before her looks desolate and terrible, an unredeemed dreariness darkens her soul like a London fog—thick, stifling. When the Birds Begin to Sing The flat finality, the dreariness, of that announcement angered the older woman. No Clue A Mystery Story Since my poor sister died he has never taken the most moderate care of his health, perfectly revelled in dreariness and desolateness, I believe! Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster There is not even a regiment to enliven the dreariness of existence, for the garrison consists of about one hundred and fifty Cossacks, with only a couple of officers in command. From Paris to New York by Land More and more she thought of Gilbert as the dreariness of Digby Street closed round her days. To Love They stopped by the rails presently, looking out upon the tumbling seas that, tipped with livid froth, rolled out of the sliding haze, and the dreariness of the surroundings intensified the girl’s depression. Masters of the Wheat-Lands After the cold and dreariness of winter came soft spring days—came longer evenings and brighter mornings. A World of Girls The Story of a School His dreariness was only complete when the sedulous civilities of his aunt carried her beyond his reach. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster They detrained and hiked across a bit of wet country that was all alike—all mud, in the dull light that grew only to accentuate the ugliness and dreariness of everything. The Search And so there are none of the groups of vacant faces, the joyless chawbacons lounging gloomily from stall to stall, the settled inanity and dreariness of the crowd that drifts through an English fair. Stray Studies from England and Italy I should like to have seen it, of all things, for its very dreariness. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 A van, containing the goods of some unfortunate family moving, has broken down close outside, and the whole scene is a picture of dreariness. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 "There was no other inside passenger, and I consumed my sandwiches in solitude and dreariness, and it rained hard all the way, and I thought life sloppier than I expected to find it." The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete As we too climbed the steady slope to the southeast we were willing to leave the dreariness of its unkept farms and get among the woods. At Plattsburg The unprofitable dreariness of that production would make a reader sick were he not relieved by a feeling of its absurdity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 She had always used her leisure to study or create; and the dreariness of existence made this inner life of hers doubly precious now. Emily Brontë I shall have more than one notion of future work to suggest to you while we are beguiling the dreariness of an arctic winter in these parts. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The insupportable solitude and dreariness of the white walls and towers, the sluggish moat and drawbridge, and the lonely ramparts, I never saw the like of. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete She appeared before the Duke with eyes reddened by sleepless nights and bitter tears, and her habitual dreariness of being was doubled. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg She asked it in a tone of dreariness, bordering on terror. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The warmth and comfort within are intensified by the dreariness without. The Diamond Coterie Nothing could exceed the dreariness of Dotty's tone. Dotty Dimple At Home Not only at the house, but at the church, did Bert find Sunday a day of dreariness. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia To increase the dreariness of the scene, a fine cold rain began to fall, as if fate pursued the little prince, who so hated cold weather, even to the very grave. Jack 1877 Autumn, though succeeded by the darkness and dreariness of winter, is but the womb of another spring. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The young man turned and walked away, oppressed by a sense of gray dreariness. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science The wind, whistling in the corridor, shook the window-panes; the black masses of trees swayed to and fro, and the dreariness of the night intensified the seriousness of their thoughts. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Some of them turned into shrews and nagged; some of them ran to fat and didn't care; but most of them just sank quietly and imperceptibly into the dreariness and smallness of their surroundings. Mufti The grottos and bridges, the precipices and pine groves, seemed to add to the general dreariness. Jack 1877 I feel sure you understand the dreariness of this life, the long and fruitless waiting, the nights of anguish—and all the misery of it, the terrible discontent and the passionate heart longings.... The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship My dreariness has not been induced by the look of the house. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science There are moments when I desire squalor, sinister, mean surroundings, dreariness, and misery. The Green Carnation The dingy dreariness of the picture-place, Turned very nearly bright, Takes on a certain dismal grace, And shows not all a scandal to the ground. The Song of the Sword and Other Verses There was an utter dreariness in his tone which Theodora had never heard before. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen This old dream now came to mind again, and every glance from their frost-covered windows at the bleak dreariness without made their vision of tropical forests and coral strands seem the more alluring. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson To relieve the sense of dreariness, she went to work again. Deerbrook No words can convey a sense of its dreariness. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance She felt the dreariness, yet her courage was high, like that of a seeker who has come on new signs of gold. Romola But her mind misgave her, not because the house was outwardly dreary, but in fear of the inward dreariness of the people—or in fear rather of their dreariness and pride combined. Miss Mackenzie The gates of the delectable world, it seemed to Lena, opened very slowly, and the mild fragrance and warmth that dribbled out to her through their narrow crack intensified her outer dreariness. Jewel Weed Such of the young villagers as remained above ground appeared to be silenced and subdued by the privation, the dreariness, the neglect, of these awful days: they looked on from afar, or avoided the spot. Deerbrook He faced the routine of his toil now with no smile of preoccupation for a sweeter vision; he shuffled about decks, futile as ever, with the dreariness of a man in prison. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories It was strange, amid the dreariness and stagnation of this place, to think of the jubilations at home. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 After they had left him, he turned to the window, feeling that the dreariness without and within was a very transitory and inconsequent thing. A Venetian June Then she ran up stairs with light steps, ruffling her plumes like a cocky little lady-wren as she went back to the dreariness where Mrs. Quincy sat rocking her inevitable creaking chair. Jewel Weed You needn't get in a huff," Mark replied, half apologetically; "a fellow couldn't help feeling the dreariness of this journey. Under the Rebel's Reign The dreariness of the lonely poet and the lonely maid contrasts strongly with the rapture of their meeting. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The voice, too, that answered her good morning, had a kind of echoing dreariness in it. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It looked splendidly comfortable after the cold dreariness outside. A Pair of Clogs The dreariness of the weather seemed to affect her spirits. The Return Of The Soul 1896 But first and last it remains a dull business, partly from an entire lack of humour, partly from the absence of any settled plan that might help one to endure the dreariness of the setting. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 One effect much commented upon was a succession of fifths in the bass, used legitimately enough to express a dreariness of earth. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The elation consequent upon her day of triumph gradually oozed out, to be replaced by the sense of dreariness that comes from being alone in a crowd. The Fighting Shepherdess Looking at the situation and aspects of the Farne Islands, of which Longstone is one, we cannot but be struck with their extreme dreariness. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands For a minute she closed her eyes on the dreariness around, and leaned her head on a hencoop at her side. Janet's Love and Service A shade of horror, of fateful dreariness, hangs over it, and gives additional effect to the fire of that brilliant poetry, which glows in every line of it. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works I must say that dreariness is no word for this place as far as I am concerned. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World “You must have known I couldn’t sit without a fire on a cold evening like this;” and the wind sang dismally in the joints of the windows to emphasise the dreariness of the situation. The Nebuly Coat Sickness, perhaps,—certainly the lonesome nights and days of a home remote from neighbors, and the dreariness and hardship inseparable from the working out of better fortunes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The gorgeous glory of the autumn was gone, but so, for one day, at least, was its dreariness. Janet's Love and Service But he knew enough of dreariness, to be able to enter into Edgar’s sadness. Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place Vauvenargues, who was born for diplomacy or literature, passed the flower of his days in the organised dreariness of garrisons and marches. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot His labours and perils were the theme of admiration and sympathy: it was reported, that he was lost three days in Paradise—a place renowned for its miserable vegetation, and the dreariness of its scenery. The History of Tasmania , Volume II Ach, my!" she sighed, with all the dreariness which a ten-year-old is capable of feeling, "why must I patch when it's so nice out? Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Their hard rationalism was odious to the great emotional dreamer, and after he had quarrelled with them all, he transformed his own impressions of the dreariness of atheism into the passionate complaint of Julie. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. In our Holy Russia many good men and women have, because of their love for their own land, been sent to drag out their lives in the dreariness of the Siberian prison camps. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia So the afternoon slipped away without the dreariness of the morning. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow It was a hard philosophy, acquired after years of dreariness, and the child had listened and absorbed and believed. Glory of Youth "The beautiful shines through the dreariness, as it does in the real life people live," he objected, stubbornly. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life He was a god-send to her dreariness in this place Edinburgh and the noisy world had made her fretful of, and she was in the mood for escapade. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Still, the dreariness passed, when she saw, shining from afar, the light from the windows of Farnwood Dell. Olive A Novel The dreariness of the school does not show so much in the winter-time, when the whole landscape is locked in snow, and the windows are curtained by frost-ferns. The Second Chance But he was not so, and as he rode he thought the morning scene of a twilight dreariness. The Long Roll Nathalie's departure, however, seemed to break the spell of his dreariness. The Genius And I was surprised to find how great an effect of discomfort and dreariness this thought had upon me. We Three Its dreariness has been softened by many a graceful adjunct of comfort and luxury. Olive A Novel We will indulge in no more dreariness; it is not good for you, and I won't allow it, my patient. Agatha's Husband A Novel The dream of food makes the starving man’s case more terrible, and the thought of home makes the dreariness of the dark wilderness more dismal. Digging for Gold Adventures in California The visitor, standing in the doorway, was impressed by the dreariness of disorder which reigned inside. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes His weariness, which excitement had momentarily mitigated had returned with a heavy sense of dreariness. The Tyranny of Weakness A part of Olympus itself lies in dreariness and in clouds, variable and stormy; but it is not the highest: there the gods govern. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection We sat for some time gazing on the wild, desolate scene around us, lighted up by the rays of the full moon, which seemed to increase its aspect of dreariness. Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures The celestial chart, that we had been admiring with so much rapture, had gradually rolled itself up, and as the sun came out, we had a view of the dreariness around us. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited In the large public-house opposite, with its dirty windows and faded signboards, the gas was already being lit, which should change it from its daylight dreariness to a resort of light and life. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant And yet every influence that means home and family seems bent on condemning me to the dreariness and mustiness of a life that kills thought. The Tyranny of Weakness Mademoiselle partly made up, however, for the dreariness of her lodging by smiles and pleasant conversation. Susan A Story for Children In a little while the pleasant influence of the scene chased the dreariness from Christie’s thoughts, and she looked about with eyes that did not seem able to satisfy themselves with its beauty. Christie Redfern's Troubles Here, in the midst of all this dreariness, we saw a pretty lake, and beautiful scenery around it, that looked for a little while like an enchanted scene, and then vanished into air. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited If “we were a honeymoon couple,” that dreariness at least would come to an end! Flaming June For some time after the wreck, the brothers seemed to experience a strange dreariness about the place which they never felt before. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes Well, amidst the glare of Eastern surroundings that scene used to come back to me as something so thoroughly, typically English, that its very dreariness made the attraction. More About Peggy It was already growing dark, and the dreariness of the scene without was reflected on the girl’s face. Christie Redfern's Troubles She did not look up as he passed; he retained a vision of the slack dreariness of her pose. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House To Guest the outlook was dreariness personified; the vastness which so impressed his companion conveyed to him only a realisation of work and struggle; of a pent-house in which human creatures struggled for existence. Flaming June To have lonely days, longer lonely evenings when the dreariness of winter set in. A Little Girl in Old Salem We agreed to go to Fort Charlotte that morning, and see the subterranean rooms and passage-ways, and all the underground dreariness of which we had heard so much. A Jolly Fellowship Perhaps all this dreariness and desolation made itself more keenly felt because the boy was just from the city, which teemed with life and bustle and energy. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught I see a new bridge reaching on— Springtime scatters the shuddering Autumn dreariness. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 I have seen it only in winter, when the trees exhibited their wintry dreariness, and little boys were skating on the diamond surface of that frozen water. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Well, now, when she had made up her mind finally to resign herself to the dreariness of that, might he not at least have done his part of it and decently disappeared? The Coast of Chance His hours of ease and pleasure were haunted by grim recollections of toil and dreariness which he had once endured, and which others, like him, were still undergoing. A Son of the Hills We must learn to use the things of life very lightly and detachedly; and to entrench ourselves in trivial associations is simply to court dreariness and to fall into a stupor of the spirit. Joyous Gard The dreariness of the night has infected us both. The Village by the River "I have but one question more to ask," said I, after a long pause, whose dreariness was that which follows the falling of the clods in the grave hollow. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author He was aware of an accession of dreariness in the certainty that in his case there never could be a young lady. The Lovely Lady He felt the dreariness and hopelessness of the hard childhood, and the hate that Mary Morley had aroused seemed to the listener to be the first vivifying happening. A Son of the Hills The dreariness and uncertainty of our situation can hardly be imagined. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' The dreariness that had come upon him inside the cottage had disappeared now that he was in the open air. The Call of the Blood I mourned that the desolation of winter was added to the dreariness of death; that a pall of snow, white as her winding-sheet and cold as her clay, covered the churchyard. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author But the tradition of dreariness, of stodginess, of dull, dense, literal prose, has so sealed people's eyes that they've ended by thinking the most natural of all things the most perverse. The Tragic Muse After resting for a few moments and struggling against the dreariness that was spreading through his thought he roused and set forth for the Walden place. A Son of the Hills It spoke much for the long peculiarity and dreariness of Day's domestic life that he evidently believed that this would be a disagreeable thing for Caius to do. The Mermaid A Love Tale We arrived at nightfall, dreary from a tiresome journey; but the dreariness did not last. Chapters from My Autobiography We drove through the gates of Paris, amid the dreariness of a winter's evening. Recollections of Europe Why so keep up the dreariness, in our poor little day? The Tragic Muse The impression of dreariness was passing away, and the wounds on the breast of nature were being healed. The Great War As I Saw It The dreariness and perplexity of the present stretched before her into the coming years. Cobwebs and Cables Even now, earnestly as she sought to do good in her mission of mercy, there were hours and hours of wretched, unspeakable dreariness and desolation. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel In the preparation of it he studied historical authorities, he read state papers, he pored over official documents of all kinds and degrees of dreariness. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters And what do you mean then by dreariness? The Tragic Muse Meanwhile, at Suma, the autumn passed away and winter succeeded, with all its dreariness of scene, and with occasional falls of snow. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan It was also a drive of surpassing dreariness. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. They have to endure all that dreariness of long waiting, and the pressure of danger, and then, for good measure, a burden of pain. Golden Lads She suddenly put her face against his shoulder in a lonely dreariness. The Emigrant Trail "This is one of the charming things you'll remember," she said, turning her eyes to the general dreariness from the particular figure of the vehicle, which was antiquated and clumsy. The Tragic Muse It is a strangely pathetic sight, this festa of the children of the South, this attempt to keep an Italian Christmas amid the cold damp dreariness of a London slum. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan He was very miserable: he had always been quickly sensitive to the beauty or dreariness around him, and the gray dulness of the scene entered into his very soul. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. He stretched his arms over his head—a tall figure of a man, but bent at the shoulders, as if all the dreariness of his surroundings had settled there. Golden Lads She would have done with the platitudes and dreariness of private life. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow I won't be dreary—no, no, no; and I won't recognise the necessity, or even, if there be any way out of it, the accident, of dreariness in the life that surrounds me. The Tragic Muse The vague dreariness of his acceptance was fully as electrical as the threatened outburst might have been. Then I'll Come Back to You I had lost everything, I told myself with profound dreariness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. The dreariness of war never came on us till we went out there to live behind the trenches. Golden Lads At length the dreariness of an ended tale was about him, and he felt the inactivity to which he had been compelled all day no longer tolerable. Alec Forbes of Howglen This or the dreariness of the place in which he found himself disturbed him greatly. The Circular Study The leaves were all off the trees; the hills were brown; but the soft, warm light that still lingered upon them forbade any look of harshness or dreariness. The Wide, Wide World The dreariness of the life before me is hardly preferable to the disappointments I have already endured. Phineas Redux It was a rest after the dreariness of the trench. Golden Lads It would have been useless to attempt it, for Nature was at work recuperating in her own way by an enforced listlessness and dreariness. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother The twelve years that followed were not the happiest or most brilliant phase of Hawthorne's life; they strike me indeed as having had an altogether peculiar dreariness. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) This scheme being frustrated, I sunk into dreariness and inactivity. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 With the acceptance of the fact that the girl really meant to get away and at once, a wave of dreariness swept over him. The Place Beyond the Winds The dreariness of it made B—— petulant and T—— mournfully silent, and finally left me melancholy. Golden Lads But in its very dreariness they found safety. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches We should here give a little thought to the dark dreariness of their surroundings. South with Scott So there was no end to this thing, no awakening and disillusioning, none of the disappointment and dreariness which is likely to attend the translating of a dream into work-a-day life. The Good Comrade It is impossible to convey the heavy dreariness of outlook conveyed by her voice and manner. Great Possessions Yet when the cooler days came, there was the dreariness of rain and of sighing winds. Contrary Mary It lasted only while one might draw a full breath; then he saw her scrutiny, and sank again to his still dreariness. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The tents were too dark to play cards, we had no reading matter or letters to answer, and once more seemed doomed to an evening of deadly dreariness. One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. Undoubtedly this same sense of dreariness led De Noyan to sing, caused me such painful restlessness under that same singing, and left Eloise saddened in her lonely thoughts. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France I was well enough accustomed to the dreariness of a school dormitory, but somehow this room looked unusually dismal. Milly Darrell and Other Tales In other lands, or at least so their poets have it, November is the month of chill and dreariness. Contrary Mary Scarce any humanity was abroad; what there was deepened the impression of the dreariness of the place. Wych Hazel Apparently they were alone in all that intense dreariness of snow. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Her tones threw the listener from dreariness into despair. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 But there's a frightful dreariness in London on such a day as this. Bella Donna A Novel It was gloomy, bare, horrible in its dreariness—a veritable grave. The Strange Case of Cavendish Even the carpets were gone, and the unstained boards in the middle seemed suggestive of peculiar dreariness. None Other Gods The light of a new day gave her a first real glimpse of the surrounding dreariness as she stood looking out through the grimy glass of her single window, depressed and heartsick. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier White waves curled dismally at the base of the Pāo de Assucar, and the weird shrieks of the sea-gulls on the rocks that jutted around it made the dreariness more desolate. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays No, no!" returned the other, good-humoredly; "but, marking you out for what you are, I thought your company might, perchance, lessen the dreariness of the way. The Days of Mohammed I have sought to make present to them the utter dreariness, the hopeless discontent, the abject demoralization, which strike a resident in Rome, unless he refuses wilfully to see the truth. Rome in 1860 Autumn came, and Susannah's faith in man was tested to the utmost by the dreariness of daily disappointment. The Mormon Prophet I lighted a candle, but the sight of the dreariness oppressed me; I therefore blew it out again, and leant out of the open window. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher And so life's shifting scenes came fast to Rupert Ames; and they were mostly scenes of dreariness and trial; but he did not altogether give up. Added Upon A Story The morning was of an icy dreariness unsurpassed. Atlantis The full rudeness is only apparent when we remember that Brentford was in that day a byword for dreariness and dirt—Thomson in the Castle of Indolence calls it "a town of mud." Life of Adam Smith While thus wandering they passed round the land of Edom, and became grieved and impatient because of the dreariness and difficulty of the way. Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children During the Georgian period it was common enough to see churchyards which might have served as pictures of dreariness and gloom. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century He seemed to have been infected by her own dreariness, to labour under a disability of doing or saying any more; he, too, gave it up. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Under the pressure of dreariness and the grave responsibility for many a sea trip, it must expand the captain's soul to look over it, Frederick thought. Atlantis Some days in the trenches are dreariness itself. Private Peat As he went through Etruria, which, as every one knew, had been a thickly peopled, fertile country in old times, he was shocked to see its dreariness and desolation. Young Folks' History of Rome Trees fringed the southern bank here, leafless at this season, but still imparting a certain dark dreariness to the scene. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot There was a new note of dreariness in his voice; a note that had perhaps been kept out of it of set purpose for a long time. The Lee Shore To the dreariness of a home without affection, was added the burden of an establishment without means; and he had thus all the embarrassments of domestic life, without its charms. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals The wind was from the northwest this afternoon, and high, the weather cold, and its dreariness increased by the howlings of a number of wolves around us. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Oh, the dreariness, the heaviness of a country dinner party! Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Darkness fell upon the place, as darkness can only fall upon solitudes, with a lonesome dreariness that seemed to touch and press. What Necessity Knows Then the door closed, like the gates that close on paradise, and there was nothing left to relieve the dismal dreariness of our dingy world. Combed Out Our skies are gloomy, our climate depressing, and the very dreariness of country life causes thousands to fly. The Young Priest's Keepsake The dreariness of the time that followed is beyond my power of description. Oddsfish! I said to myself, oppressed by the dreariness, as I drove by. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals There is probably no one who has not some time in his or her life felt the dreariness of fancied friendliness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 The dreariness of the verses grew so intense as to be almost intolerable. Combed Out Then the diary relapses into the dreariness of most ship-diaries, till they come into the Texel, when it is to a certain extent relieved by discussions about exchanges. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 I could not refrain from smiling; for indeed it was as if the sun had risen on my dreariness. Oddsfish! I complain of Arctic voyages that they do not enough remind us of the constant peculiar dreariness of the scenery, and the perpetual twilight of the Arctic night. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Perhaps Adrienne had just been allowing herself to complain of the sadness and dreariness of her life. His Excellency the Minister Our lives had become unspeakably monotonous, but the coming of warm days banished much of our dreariness. Combed Out It was a month or two later, on the rebound of another dreariness with Eleanor, that the reality came, and he did "take Lily on." The Vehement Flame And the capables willing to overlook the dreariness of the country in consideration of high wages rose up immediately and bid him good-day when informed the patient was a lunatic. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Day had followed night, and night had followed day monotonously, without a change in the heartbreaking dreariness of their round. Leonie of the Jungle The place is desolate enough; it suggests the Sahara run straight into the sea, or the discomforting dreariness of Punta Arenas, in Patagonia. With Botha in the Field He always did that when he came back, and he always felt nearly the same heartsick shrinking away from its cold dreariness. The Lookout Man In condoling with one of them on the dreariness of the place, he remarked that they occasionally shot a hare with a Lee-Metford bullet. With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train The smell of the sewer was the chief odor, and the long lines of low, red brick houses, with wooden steps and balustrades, and the blinds closed, completed a permanent camp of dreariness. Trumps An excuse is not dreariness, a single plate is not butter, a single weight is not excitement, a solitary crumbling is not only martial. Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Nothing could exceed in dreariness the appearance of the tracks through which we journeyed on this and the two following days. A Source Book of Australian History But his conscience bade him tell Grey the truth, and ask him to find Bessie on shipboard, and do what he could to lighten the dreariness of her situation. Bessie's Fortune A Novel No one can have studied political economy in the works of its earlier cultivators without being struck with the dreariness of the outlook which, in the main, it discloses for the human race. John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors She trembled with the recurring vehemence of her love, that had been fed upon solitude, upon the dreariness in which she spent her mere calendared days. Nocturne |
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