Mr Mayor and his green-eyed clerk took their seats with the prisoner: and the heavy vehicle rumbled dismally through the now deserted streets, wakening many a drowsy burgher as it passed.
The owner, angry at his loss, pursued the thief, who defied every attempt to regain it, getting far above his reach; ever and anon the same ominous croak sounding dismally through the gloom by which he was concealed.
And the night was dismally cool and windy, now that the fire had gone out.
Though the windows of these places were now boarded up, though the mosquito netting still clung rather dismally to the porches, they were mutely suggestive of contentment and domestic joy.
At the same time, the very ecclesiastics who had been so dismally engaged all night began to put on morning faces, to do honour to the merrier ceremony which was about to follow.
To say truth, they made but poor speed of it by now, labouring dismally as they ran, and catching for their breath like fish.
A thin sprinkle of snow and thin flakes of foam came flying, and powdered the deck; and the wind harped dismally among the rigging.
The steps creaked dismally as he placed his weight upon them, and it was necessary to use extreme caution to avoid breaking through the more rotten ones.
As he looked above, the moon shone through the casement of a ruined window, and an owl hooted dismally from the open belfry.
At last they stopped before a rough door, hung with massive hinges stretching half way across it, discolored with rust, and looking as if they had not been moved in an age, and which creaked dismally as Ah Ben entered.
I returned dismally into the dark gymnasium and flung the blazer on to the nearest seat; and then hurried back to report the result of my mission to Tempest.
As soon as possible I edged quietly out of the crowd, and made my way dismally back to Sharpe's, where I met not a few of our fellows, all eager for news.
I dismally tore my curl-papers out of my hair and went on with my work till the blessed hour of release came.
T'other side, if you please," said the bargee, as I prepared dismally to take my header on the near side.
Next day she left, and, dismally enough, I made the first use of my liberty to accompany her in the fly to the station.
I, looking dismally after the retreating form of Crofter.
I was too sick to give them much information, and sent them to inspect for themselves while I made my way dismally to Tempest's room.
I looked dismallyinto Tempest's study--he was not back.
Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it,--like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.
The wind howled dismally through the streets of Paris, and the rain and sleet dashed fiercely against the casements.
A deserted house was bad enough, but outside where the owls called dismally from the woods and where bats flitted by in the dark held possibilities infinitely worse.
They found rooms in one of the houses and after supper, Henrietta, Bartlett and the general sat on the stoop, while the men smoked and the stars came out one by one, the frogs croaked dismally and the whippoorwills called and called.
The wind moaned dismally and the damp searched our very bones.
Either he would fail for the Civil and go to slave dismally at Wren's or else he would pass and go out to Colonels or to death.
Spots had watched the match dismally from the touch-line and he did not take it at all well.
Then a banjo-like instrument struck up, accompanying the most dismally mournful male voice conceivable, wailing a monotonous refrain of two short lines.
And with that we parted, he back to the house, I, dismally enough, to London.
The watch on deck dodged the sting of cold sprays or, crouching in sheltered corners, watched dismally the high and merciless seas boarding the ship time after time in unappeasable fury.
Two elderly hard-weather shellbacks, fast side by side, whispered dismally to one another about the landlady of a boarding-house in Sunderland, whom they both knew.
This black abomination of art, but necessity of the up-to-date housekeeper, was smoking dismally as we came in.
The wind blew the breath out of a man's nostrils; all heaven seemed to thunder overhead like one huge sail; and when there fell a momentary lull on Aros, we could hear the gusts dismally sweeping in the distance.
The wind, besides, came down the gullies of the hills and stormed about the house with a great, hollow buzzing and whistling that was wearisome to the ear and dismally depressing to the mind.
When I got back to the house already dismally affected, I was still more sadly downcast at the sight of Mary.
Willems measureddismally the depth of his degradation.
Willems watched the succeeding sunrises wondering dismally whether before the evening some change would occur in the deadly dullness of his life.
Can man be so dismally age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may revisit him once a year?
On each side of the arch are temporary, but dismally old and battered boardings, across two angles capable of unseemly use by the British public.
Pen felt that his story was a failure; his voice sank and dwindled away dismally at the end of it--flickered, and went out; and it was all dark again.
She looked round at the furniture in the little room, and she imagined the furniture in the other rooms, and dismally thought: "All this furniture is mine.
And all the evening was spent in dismally and horribly pretending that their hearts were beating as one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dismally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gravely; grimly; heavily; sadly; slowly; solemnly; superficially
