United States or Russia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"We are all right here," said Mr. Barnes, his voice becoming more and more dismal. "But a mile farther on, and we come to a small wood the road dips down there suddenly, it is a first-rate place for an ambush." "Mercy! mercy!" cried Mary Jones in a voice half-strangled by the anguish of her terror.
All was cheerless within her. The brightness of the morning only acted like a gleam of light at the mouth of a cavern. It made the darkness of her thoughts more dismal. The first call of the little boy, when he awoke in the morning, was for bread. He was doubly hungry now. Thirty-six hours had passed since he had eaten the last mouthful of food that remained in the room. Mrs.
Down they splashed again, and Sam gave a dismal groan as he thought of the leeches and water-snakes which might be lying in wait below. Visions of the lost cow also flashed across his agitated mind, and he gave a despairing shout very like a distracted "Moo!"
We went upward, through two or three stories of dismal rooms, among others, through the ancient guard-room, till we came out on the roof of one of the towers, and had a very fine view of an amphitheatre of ridgy hills which shut in and seclude the castle and the town. The upper foliage was within our reach, close to the parapet of the tower; so we gathered a few twigs as memorials.
Thence through crowded, slummish high-roads we made our way via Lambeth to that dismal thoroughfare, Westminster Bridge Road, with its forbidding, often windowless, houses, and its peculiar air of desolation.
By this time, if my memory does not fail me as to dates, we had left the dismal loft over the stables, and had built ourselves a perfectly plain, but commodious and well-arranged chapel in the centre of the village. This greatly added to the prosperity of the meeting. Everything had combined to make our services popular, and had attracted to us a new element of younger people.
Penrod found her language oppressive, and, having been denied the right to rub Duke dry with a bath-towel or even with the cover of a table in the next room the dismal boy, accompanied by his dismal dog, set forth, by way of the kitchen door, into the dismal weather.
"Why truly, dear my lady, but since I may not go forth myself, fain would I see my good comrades ride into the battle faith, methinks I might yet couch a lance but for fear of this thy noble lady, my lord Beltane aye me, this shall be a dismal day for me, methinks!"
Nothing could be more wretched than this termination of a great and expensive voyage, which had occasioned such high hopes throughout the provinces; nothing more dismal than the political atmosphere which surrounded the republic during the months which immediately ensued.
I have a number of errands to do, and I'll surely see you on Sunday." She had taken a few steps, then she turned and said: "Lilian, do not mention meeting me today; I ask it as a favor. I will explain it all to you. Trust me." What did it mean? Was Claire ill? She had never seen Miss Trenham so confused. Evidently she could not have her come to the house. Lilian felt curiously dismal.
Word Of The Day