dismalest

• “So the siege was laid, the French and ourselves sitting down on the muddy, rain-sodden gullied plateau before Sevastopol, the dismalest place on earth, with no proper quarters but a few poor huts and tents, and everything to be carted up from Balaclava on the coast eight miles away.”

  Fictionaut: The Sky Writer

• “The ism dismalest of all, as the Chad Mitchell Trio put it in the 1962 song.”

  NPR: 'Socialist' Charge Draws On Old Fears

• “On the nicest baby they will become dirty, and the delicate blues and pinks become the dismalest wrecks when washed.”

  Making Good on Private Duty

• “One finds it, I doubt not, the dismalest of failures.”

  The Daughters of Danaus

• “I don't know whether you take it as a compliment that I should only write to you when in the dismalest of dumps -- perhaps you ought to -- you, the one emergent peak to which I cling when all the rest of the world has sunk beneath the wave.”

  Familiar Letters of William James I

• “A lot of Imperialist ladies asked me to tea to meet schoolmasters from New Zealand and editors from Vancouver, and that was the dismalest business of all.”

  The Man who Died

• “Hal agreed, and, in the face of the dismalest forecasts from Shearson, prepared several editorials.”

  The Clarion

• “Her father and mother and aunt struck me as the dismalest of people, and her home in Walham Green was chiefly notable for its black and amber tapestry carpets and curtains and table-cloths, and the age and irrelevance of its books, mostly books with faded gilt on the covers.”

  Tono Bungay

• “Lester after dinner, leaving Sir Wilfrid to the liveliest and dismalest misgivings as to what might have been happening further to the Coryston family on this most inexplicable and embarrassing day.”

  The Coryston Family A Novel

• “I. constructed in 1628, to do honor to Cosmo II. de 'Medici (pausing at Parma on his way to visit the tomb of San Carlo Borromeo), and that for a century afterward was the scene of the most brilliant spectacles in the world, is now one of the dismalest and dustiest of ruins.”

  Italian Journeys

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