cheerless

Historical Examples

• And after all, it is a cheerless scene, and cheerless are the wanderers in it.

  Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Nor is it, as has been too often supposed, a cheerless life of toil and fatigue, but has many substantial and endearing charms.

  Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866

  Henry Howland Crapo

• It was, indeed, a cheerless encampment for a cold, windy December night.

  King Philip

  John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

• She had done what she could to make the cheerless house less cheerless.

  The Shadow of a Crime

  Hall Caine

• It was a cheerless winter morning when they set out from Shoulthwaite.

  The Shadow of a Crime

  Hall Caine