Dismals [noun]

"Idyllic," some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.

Amy thought she never had; but it was amusing and pleasant talk; there could be no dismals where Anne was.

“Idyllic,” some folks would have thought it: I used to get the fair dismals watching it.

The worst miss of all to me is that, when we are in the dismals, there is now no hope of relief from any quarter whatsoever.

But at the end of book, volume, and part we leave Cyrus once more in the dismals.

Mr. Pickwick then presumed that his talk of suicide was all flam, and that his dismals were all assumed.

He only sat down, relieved, when Helene had signed to him that the child was in her dismals, as Rosalie was wont to say.

There was enough care on her face to set one up in the dismals for life.

Such pretty employment in new dismals, when she had hardly worn round her blazing joyfuls!

He concluded that she was not out of her mind, that she had simply had a fit of the dismals, and dismissed the matter.