Already the dismalness of a level land comes over me.

But in all fairness it hadn't been only the money or the dismalness of the situation back home.

Upstairs, in the fading light from the evening windows, the dismalness of the abandoned house became sad and wistful.

He growled softly, more to warn his companions than to challenge whatever menace he detected in the dismalness ahead.

Behind the bright light of the Universe, I had glimpsed the skull-like dismalness of the end of time.

They had followed Virgil only half a block, however, before that cause presented itself: Things could move half seen or even unseen in that dismalness.

He's also a manic-depressive, who requires periodic infusions of "juice," or electroshock therapy, and his career gradually slides down toward dismalness.

Of the landing party, only T'Pol had maintained a neutral expression, and had not exuded a sense of dismalness.

It was a chill and lowering morning, and a light snow which had fallen during the night whitened the great empty space and added to the general dismalness of its aspect.

I suggested that wisdom, if that should prove to be the essence of Sham-bha-la's teaching, almost certainly would counterbalance revelation of the dismalness of things with knowledge of effective remedies.

And it came over me with special pain that perhaps this article (which I was at the pains to send to her) might give dismalness to my GAMEKEEPER AT HOME.

It washed away the dismalness, but when the men went after the loose horses and returned with four more, it required another hour to bring in the saddles, get them rigged out, and re lash the dead outlaws across the horses' backs.

For a whole week it has been "cold and dark and dreary" in Tuscumbia, and I must confess the continuous rain and dismalness of the weather fills me with gloomy thoughts and makes the writing of letters, or any pleasant employment, seem quite impossible.