A dreary life would have lain before them had they not been sent to school.
But unknown to him two ladies went, to whom he had told this as a rather dreary joke.
Wearisomely in their wearisome-looking uniform, they stood for hours on their guns or marched and counter-marched in dreary patrolling, often doomed not even to scent the battle from afar off.
Hitherto I had essayed a much less romantic role in life, belonging rather to the crowd of uplifters who conduct the drab and dreary battle with the slums.
This one was left, twirling her foot, and stretching out her hands in a dreary sort of ecstasy, with no one to respond.
Her bleak and dreary heaths have written on them one dark history of blood—“the martyred children of the Covenant.
The kingdom of Sokaris represented that dreary conception of an after-existence which was associated with the ka.
The other world was for him a land of shadow and forgetfulness; a dreary world of darkness and semi-conscious existence to which he willingly closed his eyes.
The Hades in which he was called upon to believe was moredreary even than the Hades of the Homeric Greeks.
With this dreary and materialistic picture of the other world the Epic comes to an end.
Life on the railway, always monotonous, became now dreary and dragging.
Beatrice, with a dreary sigh, suppressed when half drawn.
We shall hear of a wedding there, Mistress Wenteline, by my troth, so soon as this weary, dreary doole be but got o'er.
As the dreary Alpine winter drew to an end, towards the close of March, the bishop organized a fourth crusade.
Carlovingian civilization was but a brief episode in the darkness of those dreary centuries.
That wonderful century passed away and left as its legacy to its successor vast progress, indeed, in intellectual activity, but on the spiritual side of the inheritance a dreary void.
Charley thought of the hut without Kate, and it seemed so desolate and dreary a dwelling, notwithstanding its beautiful situation, that he agreed with his companion that to "squat" alone would never do at all.
He thought of the dreary day when he left them all behind, and sailed away, in the midst of strangers, across the wide ocean to a strange land.
It is only a year since we left Africa and rounded the Horn, hardly nine months since we bade adieu to civilisation, and became wanderers and vagabonds in this wild dreary land, gold-hunting as usual, and yet it seems to me an age.
But, man, if I live to be as auld as Methuselah, I'll never forget that dreary nicht your Kooran came howling to the door.
Who knows what company she may have in this lonesome dreary spot?
The inside of that cot wasdreary in the extreme, but Kenneth soon made it more cheerful.
In the one instance, Hope advances to a state of superior sensation, which we term Joy; in the other, fear sinks down the rugged declivity to thatdreary region called despair.
The sons of Genius hapless race, To often are the sons of woe; The dreary path of want they trace, Or to the grave unheeded go.
Whilst dreary Winter clothes the Landscape round, And sober Eve her dusky mantle veers; Here let me studious on this rising mound Recline, and give to yonder stream my tears.
Oh haste, on swiftest pinions haste, For summer's lingering hours are past, And dreary Autumn ready stands To yield the sceptre to thy hands.
Ev'n godlike Paoli's confest her sway, By her they flourish and by her they fade; The adverse fortune of one hapless day Condemns thee to oblivion's dreary shade.
THE husband, with an eye of warm alacrity and a welcome manner that should have made his fortune in some livelier hostel than the dreary inn of Flanders Moss, regarded the stranger with compassion.
The seas would seem to have forgotten the ways of peace; the glens were flooded, and the Highlands for a space were cut off from the Lowland world, and in a dreary privacy of storm.
The dreary note, prolonged and dying slowly, seemed to roll in waves far out on shoreless seas of space, and Mellish, agitated, beat again upon the ponderous brass.
Ah, I see," said the other with comprehension and with a dreary little smile.
His men had already descended from the mesa into the huge basin that opened out suddenly at their feet, disclosing a dreary waste that was beautiful and absolute, for not a dwarfed tree or a sage-brush or a twig lived there.
The cotillon loomed dismally before Penrod now; but it was his duty to secure a partner and he set about it with a dreary heart.
Bitterly, bitterly poor was the whole Southern country in those dreary days after the war.
The dreary little advertisement remained in a corner of the newspaper a month longer, but no purchaser appeared.
God help the woman who must be that dreary thing, a teacher from necessity!
It is the privilege of one acquainted in no common degree with languages and their history to expose that dreary joke of the dialect of the oppressed, which superficial people have so long found funny or contemptible.
Look down upon our dreary state, And through the ages that may still Roll sadly on, Watch Thou o'er hapless Erin's fate, And shield at least from darker ill The blood of Conn!
Followed the dreary years that linked me to the rotting corpse God's leprosy devoured while the poor furtive thing yet moved.
