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In a bare lime-washed yard behind the house, I found my aunt dressed in dismal black
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“What a dismal place”, said Cyberia
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“Both of whom you left unburied, their gore splattered across that dismal place
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In rice countries, where the crop not only requires a very moist soil, but where, in a certain period of its growing, it must be laid under water, the effects of a drought are much more dismal
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And what has such a man to envy in me? These dusty and dismal rooms? Mrs Pilfer, perhaps? Sir, say the word and you may have her
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It was a real sad time, dismal, in fact
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Jesus" face was in such dismal condition that James gave up
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I stepped down onto the platform and it seemed to be a dirty shade of grey and with the rain sweeping across in a curtain of silver droplets it was dismal and depressing I shivered for I was unused to the cold and had no greatcoat for warmth
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The surroundings were dismal and bleak
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Christmas would probably be passed in the same dismal way, with fears
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The burrow was damp and dismal just as Cherva knew it would be, discomfort would lend a sharpness to their training
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"And this is the lounge area," the matron told us, stepping aside so that we could view a dismal room dominated by a large, wide-screened television set
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The overriding concern for all interested parties should be the dismal track record of our inner city schools in recent years and the practical measures needed to improve it
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Puerto Viejo’s was in a dismal state
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The leaden skies and the softly-swishing traffic foretold a long, damp and dismal winter in this city
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But you came in right through the roof, and the chips saved your life,” the cop explained to a Blaine who was not only beginning to feel some very sharp pains, and a lot of dull aches; but also the most dismal emotional prospects that any man had ever felt
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While she speaks with tears in her eyes so dismal and dreary,
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You notice how everything in this country is achieving the same dismal look
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Would Richard Branson ever find himself in a dismal situation like this?
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Its failure leaves a dismal path of destruction of property and lives
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We are familiar with Job who found himself in such dismal circumstances that he did not want to live anymore, but even so, he says that even the (still born) baby must be carried to the grave
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What a dismal heartbroken event for me to accept… I literally spent years grappling with this reaction
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She sat for a few dismal minutes in silence, facing the consequences of her rash act
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Otherwise the love couples who have lived on Earth for half a century wouldn't still like each other as clearly as in its youth, the fountains would be languishing in dismal parks without cause, and the ruins of an ancient castle would fail down to the underground and became an exhibit of the museum that is stored in the bowels of planet for millions and billions of years
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What was such a dismal and gray area in her life has all the sudden
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I have been wandering the countryside a dismal failure ever since
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Does anyone really believe that allowing public money to pay for schoolbooks in a religious school, as it does in secular schools ,is the “establishment” of a religion? If the books were distributed impartially among schools of different denominations, which one would have been “established?” Does providing vouchers to send children to a private religious school rather than a dismal ghetto public school violate the establishment clause?
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Then, in the silence broken only by the dismal tick-tock of the clock, they seemed to hear, far off, the desperate cry of a child
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Remember my description of our dismal, belowground quarters
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curse that seemed to be reserved for the most dismal instances
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being dismal, and I knew that
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He thought much about these impressions of the Master's forgiving character during those dark and dismal days immediately following his thoughtless and unintended denial of Jesus in the high priest's courtyard
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"Oh, I could never afford that on my salary," he faltered dismal y
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7 Andrew was deeply chagrined at this ill-advised effort and its dismal failure
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She had been sent to a dismal school, a lot like this one, and had suffered there until she had transferred to the special ed assignment
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Upon the dismal shore of Acheron
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Did send a dismal sheen:
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What was the proportion of men to women in the Civil Service? Where were these women? Were earnings comparable to men with similar responsibilities? When the data started to come in it painted a dismal picture
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” Henry snapped out of the dismal trance and smiled widely
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In a few minutes he stopped quaking and his body succumbed to a dismal uneasy sleep
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Angela turned her head away and looked down the dismal back corridor and could see the reflection of her husband’s eyes in the dim light of the hall
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Henry tried to see the front door but because of the room’s great size, all he could make out was the dismal light far off in the distance
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stringent conditions; to pre-empt such a dismal outcome occurring in the future
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I have to say, I am a little glad that I shall be reeled up out of this dismal place in a short time
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By giving that group the benefit of the doubt and granting them ten points for their approval rating, it’s still a dismal number under thirty percent
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like a dismal character
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In the small village of Banko, where he and his colleagues began the installation, the passing rate in the schools was a dismal 25%
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dismal grey attire and long, grim faces of those undertaking this serious task
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A DISMAL GREY cloud that seemed to represent the search party’s demeanour surrounded the hotel as the men returned with dejected, somber expressions
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Feeling the same way, Feltus agreed and took his leave quietly, returning home just as the sun was rising behind the dismal grey clouds that covered the entire sky and once again made for a dreary day
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He also wondered who among the American senior commanders he could blame for all this: contrary to the dismal combat performance of the British and Dutch troops in other parts of the Pacific and Asia, the American forces in the Philippines had consistently outsmarted the Japanese forces, either guessing in advance the Japanese attack plans or countering Japanese attacks with new and unpredictable tactics
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After looking over his shoulder at the dismal figure, Lord Ashburn frowned and said to Feltus, “Oh, that unpleasant fellow
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So the part that he had, looked dismal before the whole, so he ran to the bounty of the Father, where all that was lost, was not lost
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the same for a dismal year of near negative income
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It seemed it was destined only for a dismal fate each time it was worn and now its time had come
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Dismal public character was reflected in works of the period and the arts that finally once again been making progress were temporarily stifled
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dismal) environments where they are sorted by age, sat in chairs, and
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Unfortunately, the League of Nations was a dismal failure because nations, including the
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It was a dark, dismal place with walnut colored paneling from the floor to his waist and black and red velvet flowered wall paper from there to the ceiling
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Allied to that are the apparently dismal hygienic conditions the locals mostly live in, which means that the little we could get from them would likely be unfit for human consumption by our standards
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ability was dismal, so he gave up on this after just a few grating lines
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, Dumb and Dumber, rattled up to the dismal weather-beaten farmhouse in the Poconos
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For the record here is our dismal performance
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Conversely, you may have seen promotions run for products like yours that were utter and dismal failures
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dismal in your mind then it is time to seek professional help
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was thrashed by his father for his dismal performance
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“You like the hot ex-soldier,” Norah proclaimed, happy to shift the conversation away from the dismal state of her love life
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Having learned their lesson from their peoples’ own dismal history and fueled by a surging new pride in themselves and their ancestors’ accomplishments, they wasted no time in ousting all residents who might cause trouble, attaching their bank accounts and taking over all of their assets
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” Behind her, the slides flashed by as she listed each, showing the dismal befores and the astonishing afters
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Just as Rathos had said, the desert was not far off, and soon the group began their dismal trek through the sandy wasteland
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Cutting straight through the heart of the building is a covered brick alleyway that leads to a dismal inner courtyard
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curiosity forced his eyes to continue watching the dismal picture
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Rad grabbed Anne’s arm and led her away from the dismal corner
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In the dismal police interview room Danny explained quietly and carefully that he had been trying to stop Stripehead, rather than help him
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state aide Mark, informed you how dismal your career appears and how
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It will therefore, amount to a dismal failure on my part to allow a fellow student to compel me to break the promise I made to myself and my parents; and now our ancestral covenant, as you have made me to understand
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I went up and got the key from Johanna, in whose keeping Frau von Lindeberg had left it, and came down again, and unlocked the door of the house lately so full of light and life, and crept fearfully about the echoing rooms and up the dismal stairs, and let myself go, as I tell you, to a very orgy of morbidness
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And she fell to thinking of another of her adorers--she hadn't been able to endure him for long, this one, because the moment he left off talking love she couldn't understand a word he said,--who used obstinately to assert that the past is really as present as the present, and that if only she were to approach it from the proper angle she would find she was still doing everything she had ever done; still, she supposed the tiresome man would have insisted, holding those flowers, still, awful thought, eating those plovers' eggs, and poor Jim still going through the dismal process of all but dying
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"I love sardines," said Fanny, who had a feeling that she must somehow make up, by being extra pleasant and extra appreciative, for the dismal conditions these two lived in
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Now, out on the street, Greg pondered both Wyatt’s dismal state and his own catastrophic actions of the day and night before
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THE ABANDONED BUILDING embodied the entire neighborhood: hard and empty, dismal and destitute
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At the beginning she deplored this uninterrupted abundance, for she could not but see that beneath it the family roof grew a little rotten and sometimes, though she made feeble efforts to keep it out, a rather dismal rain of discomfort soaked in and dimmed the brightness of things
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The oilcloth and the wall-papers looked very dismal in the grey daylight
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Down there she had behaved exactly like the traditional foolish woman when there is a death about,--no common sense, no grit, crying if you looked at her, and keeping up a continual dismal recital of the virtues of the departed
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As Captain Murphy sat in a secluded corner of the strip club, he frowned until his face creased with dozens of dismal trenches
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She couldn't see the window, or the dismal rain streaming down it
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And she not only didn't see how they were to be avoided--for no care, no caution would for ever be able to watch what she said, or did, or looked, or, equally important, what she didn't say, or didn't do, or didn't look--but she was afraid, afraid with a most dismal foreboding, that some day after one of them, or in the middle of one of them, her nerve would give out and she would collapse
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On the first occasion they were tested the children realised they were a dismal disappointment
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Venki had regained his exuberance after the dismal demonstration with the sling
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Although this was a dismal apartment block, the female residents still took pride in keeping it clean
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The Chief Of Police, a representative from the British High Commission, and a lawyer were waiting for her in this equally dismal room
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Did send a dismal sheen;
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reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers
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He hated it and with each passing day he became convinced that he was wasting his life working for the Communist system, as it was a dismal failure
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What a dismal failure I turned out to be
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an awful, dismal, burning hell, and there countless
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actor, but as a writer he is a dismal failure
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He remembered his dismal disaster with Cecilia