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Mrs. Bowse's guests were not of the class which entertains or is entertained, and the details of banquets and ball-dresses and money-spending were not uncheering material for conversation.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The world little knew the drudgery to which these unfortunate followers of the Ex-Emperor were thus exposed, and they must all have rejoiced at any termination of a toil so remorseless and so uncheering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

Not a human face or habitation presented itself, nor any relief from silence, except the uncheering note of the screech owl. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

In it they found occasion to accentuate a grousing born of the damp, uncheering vista around them.

From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley

They are then merely burdensome and uncheering elements within their narrow social sphere.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard