It was the dreariest of places, and his hut, pitched on a bleak spot the better to command a view of the sea, was the most miserable of abodes.
So God paints the dreariest lands in colors of great beauty, and scatters over them profusely at times the richest sunlit gems.
It is, though thoroughly divested of any sensational character, one of the dreariest volumes one can take up.
Isn't it the dullest, dreariest hole you have ever been in?
How long may an organ-man linger in front of a residence to tune or adjust his barrels--the dreariest of all discords?
External things always, even in moments of strong emotion, affect me powerfully; and that dreariest room, the door of which closed between us, left a most forlorn impression upon my memory.
Bannisters of any possible tedium, and two hours of the darkest, dampest, dreariest winter weather have thus been charmed away through her tender and ingenious solicitude for my enjoyment.
It was the chance of rescue from the dreariest life of drudgery that a poor dependent creature ever lived, and I took it.
I would assign this period as the darkest and the dreariest in the history of Europe since the Roman conquests, for this reason,--that civilization perished without any one to chronicle the changes, or to take notice of the extinction.
It was in the dreariest part of the winter which followed Joseph Wilmot's escape that an incident occurred which gave me a strangely-mingled feeling of pleasure and pain.
In emulation of the precedent set by Addison, Johnson indulges in the dreariest of allegories.
What, we must ask, would Sidonia say to this dreariest of all shams?
Come, with your dreariest truth shut out The fears that haunt me round about; O God!
The dreariest spot in all the land To Death they set apart; With scanty grace from Nature's hand, And none from that of Art.
I liked their cheerfulness, for the dreariest old hag, who scrubbed all day in that pestilential steam, gossipped and grinned all the way out, when night set her free from drudgery.
I pitied them so much, I dared not speak to them, though, remembering all they had been through since the rout at Fredericksburg, I yearned to serve the dreariest of them all.
In the life of the dreariest alderman, Fancy enters into all details, and colors them with a rosy hue," says Emerson.
Rightly or wrongly, it is the one theme which sends a throb of excitement through the life of quiet parsonages and kindles a new fire even in the dreariest May meetings at Exeter Hall.
It had already seemed to me the dreariest of all historical buildings, and my final visit confirmed the impression.
With Versailles, Fontainebleau, Saint-Germain and Saint-Cloud within easy reach of their capital, the later French sovereigns had little reason to take the air in the dreariest province of their kingdom.
They live in great grandeur, on about the dreariest hillside Nature ever created.
If she quoted, it was from the darkest and dreariest utterances of her favorite Gamaliel.
There is a long period, during which frescos illuminate a church or a hall in a way that no other adornment can; when this epoch of brightness is past, they become the dreariest ghosts of perished magnificence.
She was always thrown in the dreariestplaces with the dreariest dead-and-alive people, flat and insipid and tiresome.
We were constantly in view of the river, separated from its Oregon brink at the farthest by about half a mile of the dreariest dunes of shifting sand ever seen by an amateur in deserts.
The dreariest period in religious discussion commonly occurs when men have just ceased to inflict legal penalties upon the heterodox, but have not yet learned those amenities which lend so sweet and gentle a dignity to debate.
And sing life's lonesome times away; So--worry and the dreariest day Will find an end together!
Never a watch on the dreariesthalt But some promise of love endears; I read from the past that my future shall be Far better than all my fears.
It seemed to me at that moment thedreariest place in the dreariest dream man had ever had.
Hie thee hence To the waste wilderness, the mournful main, To caves where silence and deep stillness reign, Where God's eye only can the gloom pervade; And shroud thy visage in their dreariest shade!
It certainly was the dreariest 24th of December an unhappy boy ever had the misery of witnessing.
There never was a Christian who, in his weariest and dreariest hours, could not say, "His grace is sufficient.
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