dreary

"I reckoned she'd prob'ly have it over you, too," said Mr. Gammon, drearily.

His look of a bygone awake-in-sleep old look, drearily known to her, was like a strip of sunlight on a fortress wall.

What a spectacle presented itself to her imagination, as drearily she looked round!

"Most comfortable, and so very clean—quite spotless," the wife answered admiringly, and yet drearily.