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A dreary mist had shrouded everything that morning in Sulis Min, it had tasted of damp and woodsmoke and loss
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Two massive doors opened into a dark, dreary room; heavy dark green drapes hung throughout the room
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Night was creeping in, further darkening the dreary grey sky
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Here there lay dreary gray streets and lopsided houses scattered higglety piggilty
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he always tried to avoid Guild business in dreary Hjaalmarch if he could
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IT WAS A DREARY DAY, BUT IT NEVER STOPPED
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All of this added up to a dreary existence for young Sammy, who was by nature not quite the loner that circumstances made him be
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back to the house under a grey and dreary sky
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A miserable silence was over everything; and around, as far as the eye could reach, stretched the dreary mangrove swamps, dark brownish green foliage above, and a mass of twisted roots rearing their pale stems above the mud and water below
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It was a dreary march, but Fumsu was at length reached, and crossing the river, I entered the village, thankful to have reached my destination after being on the road for over sixteen hours
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"This morning's just spun by, but, oh, this long, dreary afternoon!"
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The white fields looked vast and dreary in the dusk
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Dreary indeed was the
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I let my imagination paint the streets as cold and dreary as it
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“And in the wintertime I am afraid it gets even more dreary
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But it turned out it was bad luck, because if we hadn't seen the Bully Creek Reservoir site, we would have stopped at a dreary, depressing private campground a few miles further on
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Well, here's the answer: Because at the dreary campground, there was big lightning strike, right across the road, and we could have had a front-row seat! We stopped here for ice, and the campground owner showed us the tree that had been struck by lightning the night before
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view confined to the dreary black coal bunker illumined by the
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Such a dank and dreary place, with just a weak orange glow from a distant streetlamp illuminating the mist that hung in the air! Undoubtedly, there were rats scurrying everywhere
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Even for a guy who read the Bible one long, dreary winter
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While she speaks with tears in her eyes so dismal and dreary,
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They got a dreary bite in the kitchen and intended to wash the dishes at once
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The land below was nothing but stone and dirt, no fertile soil or vegetation to be found, everything darkened by constant shadow, a dreary gloom
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It’s dreary here
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of the early church is over, and the dreary services put on in some places sound more
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that the day of the early church is over, and the dreary services put on in some
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discounted coach with his shortage of cash, it was likely to be nine hours after a million dreary stops
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It was a dreary day and a symbolic day
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Nonetheless, the brisk winds have succeeded, declaring today a dull and dreary day
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added light that the dreary days and ash-clouded atmosphere
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It was another dull dreary day with the sun barely more than
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and dreary, he couldn’t help but see vibrant colors and life
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The dreary scene was accompanied by the
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During those dreary times down river, I’d longed to get back here
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She sat back down and gazed at the drab and very dreary cabin
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D’ya know what he said Saturday night while you were shoving your load into Janice? We went into that dreary great lounge they’ve got, you’d think they’d have better furniture wouldn’t you, all that money? Anyway, behind some panels they’ve got a church thing
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He conceded that it was a different world from dreary industrialized Slough and St
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Maybe it’s just that it’s so dreary outside and it’s ruining our Saturday
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So all-encompassing was this singular feeling that I had desire to retrace my steps and never look upon this dreary edifice again
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Yet still, the cranks and clogs of my mind must have been set on overload that dreary Wednesday afternoon, for after a little times distance I scarcely heard the sound of what could only be described as the rapping and clapping of hoofs in the upper chambers
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The infantrymen marching across the dreary plain fell into a sullen silence
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If it is allowed to operate without interference it will transform this drab, dreary, earthly experience into something magical and miraculous
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Without her it rolled a barren, dreary and desolate waste from pole to pole
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Hours after the appointed time, which had been filled with one dreary or shocking case after another, their turn came
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The dreary intercourse of daily life,
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His eyes were large and black but empty of feeling like the mouth of a dreary cave
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She had on the same orange sweatshirt as before, but now wore white sweatpants and hot pink socks, bright colors in such a dreary room
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grumble about how dreary it is, you won't see it
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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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venturing into the many dark caves and long, dark and dreary
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breeze as it whispered in the dreary distance
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But then one day in the cold, dreary month of late
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The dreary room
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intimidatingly dark, cold and dreary
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of dreary squalor-land miles, but only short island miles, of
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toward the dreary South,
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within the dreary dark
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Imagine a world where everything is dreary, urban, regulated, overdeveloped,
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The sky was dark with dreary clouds hung low with an oppressing feeling about them
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It was much, much brighter on top of the mountain, but as my eyes descended back down and then again across the level, but dreary land, I could see that the farther one was from the light, the dimmer it was
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Margaret was however tired already of having her life treated as a public commodity to be managed by a bunch of dreary, conservative royal courtiers
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He sheds the dreary layer of gear to reveal his proud police blues below
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The days that followed were dreary ones
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Stopped our favourite on the street for a moment of magic in this dreary city swell
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Give me the religion of texts and hymns and simple faith, which satisfies thousands, rather than the dreary void of speculative philosophy, which thoroughly satisfies none
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Thank God she didn’t have to wait until the dreary office on Monday
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With these dreary prospects confronting many of us, we began the 1968/9 Cricket
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What dreary yarns padded out with inconsequential minutiae, populated by, or
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It was a dreary day, and low clouds hanging over the city sig-
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and gray dreary days have I
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"Yes, it is often very dreary on the shore but," she shrugged, "you adjust and get used to it
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face looked dreary as he opened the door, but then his eyes seemed to ask a
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The fog outside the sixth window was just as dreary as the fifth
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If they’d really understood what was Out There, seen its beauty firsthand, then how happy and content would they have been growing up in such a dreary, damp environment? Not content at all, Hal guessed
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It was mostly dark, dreary, and ugly
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It was as wet and dreary as the day he’d buried her
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The lightness of it sounded so odd on such a cold, dreary day
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It is dull and bad because it is so dreary, so hopelessly dreary
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If, her nerves being already on edge, I were to suggest to her even smilingly to be quiet, she would at once give notice--I know she would--and the dreary search begin again for that impossible treasure you in England call a paragon and we in Jena call a pearl
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But what is to be done with girls of good family who do not marry, and have no money? They can't go governessing, and indeed it is a dreary trade
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'She would be a most dreary young female,' he went on, smiling down as from a pulpit on our heads, and wiping his spectacles
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But drudgery and a lost youth do not make your life less, but more dreary
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It is such an excellent thing that you should be ardent at all after this long while of dissatisfaction with life that I ought to cheer you on and not talk dreary
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Without having had any of the joys of Siegfried--I can't think Dolly would mutter a name in her sleep that wasn't her husband's--she has spent these years of war cheerfully accepting the results of him, devoting herself to the forlorn and stranded German widow, spending her life, and what substance she has, in keeping her company in the dreary pensions of a neutral country, unable either to take her home to England or to leave her where she is by herself
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We drifted from pipeclay to a discussion on bicycling for women--a dreary subject
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And so we came to the region of Baabe, passing first round the outskirts of Sellin, a place of villas built in the woods on the east coast of Rügen with the sea on one side and a big lake called the Selliner See on the other; and driving round the north end of this lake we got on to the dullest bit of road we had yet had, running beside a railway line and roughly paved with stones, pine-woods on our left shutting out the sea, and on our right across a marshy flat the lake, and bare and dreary hills
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October 16th was a dreary Monday, and Chas had scheduled a late evening service
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'Her husband is a farmer,' I heard Charlotte say in the dreary voice of hopeless boredom
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I know no surer way of shaking off the dreary crust formed about the soul by the trying to do one's duty or the patient enduring of having somebody else's duty done to one, than going out alone, either at the bright beginning of the day, when the earth is still unsoiled by the feet of the strenuous and only God is abroad; or in the evening, when the hush has come, out to the blessed stars, and looking up at them wonder at the meanness of the day just past, at the worthlessness of the things one has struggled for, at the folly of having been so angry, and so restless, and so much afraid
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But I have nothing to do with the enthusiasms of other people, and can only repeat that it is a dusty, glaring place--quaint enough on a fine day, with its steep streets leading down to the water, and on wet days dreary beyond words, for its houses all look as though they were built of cardboard and were only meant, as indeed is the case, to be used during a few weeks in summer
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It stands entirely exposed out in the open beyond the Stubbenkammer forest, and on a dull day must be dreary
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Never was such a dreary sea or such a melancholy spot
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that the solution to your dreary results is included in one single yet powerful
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“Where’s the map?” She asked him on one bleak and somewhat dreary morning
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The peasant, watching this pink chalice of his future joys, this mysterious moving crucible into which whatever dreary dregs and leavings he threw, uttermost dregs of uttermost dregs that even his lean dog would not touch, they still by Christmas emerged as sausages, could not but feel at least some affection, at least some little touch of awe
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All those dreary tea-gowns in which she had trailed through the seven years of her marriage, dark garments whose sole function was to hide, were given to Ilse, her first servant, who had married poverty and who frugally turned them into trousers of assorted shapes for her husband, embittering him permanently; and from long-forgotten cupboards she got out small neat frocks again, portions of her unworn tremendous trousseau, short things, washable and tidy, and was refreshed into respect for herself as a decent human being by the mere putting of them
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I will not follow his painful footsteps as they ranged about that dreary place, nor will I dwell upon his purchases, which resolved themselves at last, after an infinite and soul-killing amount of walking and bewilderment, into a sofa, a revolving bookstand, and two beds
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The girl went away, and Priscilla began for the first time to consider the probability of her having in the near future to think of and order three meals every day of her life; and not only three meals, but she dimly perceived there would be a multitude of other dreary things to think of and order,--their linen, for instance, must be washed, and how did one set about that? And would not Fritzing's buttons presently come off and have to be sewn on again? His socks, when they went into holes, could be thrown out of the window and new ones bought, but even Priscilla saw that you could not throw a whole coat out of a window because its buttons had come off