Crossword-Solution: DISMALS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise-cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.

All of a sudden he said, half aloud, as if he had made up his mind, “I might as well begin at once, and give the child something new to think about, for Myra's dismals and Jane's lectures have made her as blue as a little indigo bag.” Diving into one of the trunks that stood in a corner, he brought up, after a brisk rummage, a silken cushion, prettily embroidered, and a quaint cup of dark carved wood.

The worst miss of all to me is, that, when we are in the dismals, there is now no hope of relief from any quarter whatsoever.

And when there comes a passenger among us, One who has heard what's stirring out beyond, 'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals! Stranger: News, is it, you want? I could give you news!-- I wonder, did you ever hate to feel The earth so fine and splendid? Huff: Oh, you're one Has stood in the brunt of the world's wickedness, Like me? But listen, and I'll give you a tale Of wicked things done in this little valley, Done against me, will surely make you think The Devil here fetcht up his masterpiece.

Devereux got up and received him with a slight bow and no smile, and a 'Pray take a chair, Doctor Toole.' 'Well, this _is_ a bright fit of the dismals,' said little Toole, nothing overawed.