Example Sentences

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Dreariness, wreck, and desolation were on every side; and it seemed to Salvé that it was only a reflection of his own life.

From The Pilot and his Wife by Lie, Jonas Lauritz Idemil

The Dreariness of One Line of Conduct We have lots of ways of expressing that a man is in a "rut" without ever giving the real reason of our adverse criticisms.

From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by King, Richard

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, flimsiness, bad taste reduced to mathematical completeness is what the inside offers to the eye, if it remains yet what it always has been.

From The Gilded Age, Part 3. by Warner, Charles Dudley

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

From The Mill Mystery by Green, Anna Katharine