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adjective

Dreary adj. (compar. drearier; superl. dreariest)

Sorrowful; distressful. (Obs.) " Dreary shrieks."

Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." "The dreary ground." "Full many a dreary anxious hour." "Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity."

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... he had been driven by need, but as it was he would begin to yawn in ten or fifteen minutes, and then would put the book away. He went home to a noonday dinner rather early and came back in the afternoon, feeling sleepy and bored. Now the office, and indeed the whole town, seemed a dreary place to him. At this season of the year there were often high winds which mantled the town in a yellow cloud of sand, and rattled at every loose shutter and door with futile dreary persistence. Ramon would ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... in the resurrection world, while the believer only enjoys them in this state of being through faith, which baptizes him into the spirit of Christ. But if there be no resurrection, and nought is presented to our anticipation but the dreary prospect of a beamless eternity, then "preaching is vain," "faith is also vain," "christians are yet in their sins," "and they that are fallen asleep ...

— Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation • John Bovee Dods

... on the floor, unconscious that she still knelt; seeing only the suffering woman in that dreary attic across the river, where sunken feverish eyes watched for ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... cold in Naples, high up in the city, when the northeast wind comes screaming from the snowy Abruzzi, and when Vesuvius is clad in white almost to the lower villages. In Naples it is sometimes dreary when the water-laden southwest sends up its mountains of black clouds. But somehow in soft Posilippo the wind is tempered and the rain seems but a shower, and spring and summer, summer and spring, ever join hands amongst the ilexes ...

— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford

... naturally to the heaven of the blessed.... We were then conducted through a long row of very low rooms ornamented with a variety of Buddhist statues that have never been dusted nor apparently disturbed, to an open terrace which overlooked a dreary waste of gray rocks and broken ledges and offered to our view the slender roadway that lay like a ribbon across the plain until it faded into the golden glow of the Eastern horizon.... When I looked at that single road, and ...

— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe

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