Word: dismaler
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...table an accumulated pile of circulars and bills, -a gilt-edged note from my tailor, which I took for an invitation; a postal card from a Sunday school; another with the College arms on it; and the rest advertisements, notices, and what not. The room was cold, dismal, and dusty, whereas I had fondly hoped that my chum would be back before me and have everything snug and comfortable. With the charitable intention of making him light the fire, I had taken just as long a vacation as the "law allowed and the court awarded," and not to find...
...raven's dismal croak...
...chance to read their "feeble attempt to describe the incompetency of the servants" who are forced upon them by the hard-hearted official in question; and they beg him to examine for himself the chambers of horrors which they so graphically describe. After dwelling for a time upon these dismal scenes, they suddenly draw the most striking of contrasts. They tell their preceptors that "at Harvard women take charge of the dormitories," and they proceed to describe the spotless neatness with which the students' rooms are kept by the sweet-scented sylphs of Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves...
...earth grows dark at the dismal sight...
...them flocking from their dismal haunts...