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.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

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

'Socialist' Charge Draws On Old Fears 2008

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 Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

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 Harriet Camp Lounsbery

"One finds it, I doubt not, the dismalest of failures."

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

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 Harriet Camp Lounsbery

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 Harriet Camp Lounsbery

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 1920

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 1915

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

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914