Dismal Swamp

But there was still a paper to get out in Washington, and I went there late in the afternoon to tackle the dismal job.

I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed.

A native brought news that a collector and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road.

And when he did leave the dismal scene of this last act of his miseries, it was like the spectre of the man who had entered it.

My railway life began on a drizzling dismal day in the early autumn.

The light which discovered its dismal bounds to his solitary eyes, came from a small grated aperture in the vaulted roof.