Example Sentences

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Dreariness filled the weeks with dismal, sunless skies and a clinging moisture that knew no wholesome tonic of keen frosts.

From The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Blackwood, Algernon

Dreariness and fear are not the proper manifestations of that perfect love which casteth out fear.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley

Dreariness like this has little to do with youth and beauty.

From The Mill Mystery by Green, Anna Katharine

Do thy little, though it be Dreariness and drudgery; They whom Christ apostles made Gathered fragments when he bade.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

"Dreariness would accompany, nothing cheerful come near me."

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte