Crossword-Solution: PESSIMIST 9 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The joy was in the song, not in me! Last week was black enough for me to satisfy the most exacting pessimist." "I wish you might have seen the figure you cut! That fine team, flower bedecked, and the continuous concert!" "But I did!" cried Laddie.

But, whatever else he may be, a pessimist is depressing, and it was, therefore, a great pleasure to me to have a friend who was an out-and-out optimist.

Evidently they have spied our sail, and guess that we do not belong to their fleet.” “They probably want to ask the way to the mainland themselves,” said Juag, who was nothing if not a pessimist.

For the space of about thirty seconds, a half-naked, betel-chewing pessimist stood upon the bank of the tropical river, on the edge of the still and immense forests; a man angry, powerless, empty-handed, with a cry of bitter discontent ready on his lips; a cry that, had it come out, would have rung through the virgin solitudes of the woods, as true, as great, as profound, as any philosophical shriek that ever came from the depths of an easy-chair to disturb the impure wilderness of chimneys and roofs.

Nor could the pessimist shake his surety of the three hundred thousand of Alaskan gold he as going to shake out of the moss-roots.