The very echoes sleep in drear repose. From Wordnik.com. [Stanzas, supposed to be written whilst the late QUEEN OF FRANCE was sleeping, by her attendant in the TEMPLE.] Reference
The season's books in drear significance. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
When the dim, drear mists of the dusk are creeping. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference
Shall be their solemn, drear, and dirge-like sound!. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
That still, outstretched, stand grim mementos drear. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
And oft, while drear Midnight assembles her shades. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Outlines were hard -- all nature's looks were drear. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
While they laugh, laugh at me, at me fled to the drear. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Only we shall all be back at Westminster again in drear. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
They will lift up your hair On the drear-y Black Hills. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
He dozed over his drear philosophy, and from dozing slept. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Of pumice lie Happy within their drear setting of cypress. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
See, on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
O'er such a drear unpeopled waste, oh! who would be a king?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
"Who e'er gets his deepest heart desire in this drear world?". From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
Yet vengeance drear, and dark desert of direst actions, crave. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828] Reference
Then in the drear dimness of the room a hideous laugh rang out. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
She spake and vanish'd, and again the night was dark and drear. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Always drear and gaunt it was immeasurably so on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
So it went until one Christmas, dark and stormy, cold and drear. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
Seem to awaken drear forebodings in the listening gazer's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
But night was coming -- the black, drear night of the low places. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
Empty and drear was each room, and haunted with phantoms of terror. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
It all seemed dark and drear, and not a gleam of sunshine in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Bulbs and Blossoms] Reference
Ne'er a trace was found to tell them of his grave so lone and drear. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
So he sat on this drear Thanksgiving-Day despondent beside his hearth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
Where he hides himself when winter, dark and drear, approaches, I'm sure. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
It was nothing but sand, drear and desolate as far as the eye could reach. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
I called into the Schooner Tavern & sought the drear interior of the Wynyard. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
All was dark and drear, if you like: a fitting setting for our entry into the. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
The drear analogies succeed one another; she sees them everywhere, in everything. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Night was closing down on the desolate Border hills on a drear November evening of 1715. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The Hospitals were drear to him, and the dull, heavy atmosphere seemed full of contagion. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Spring showers may be on their way, but that doesn't mean we need to dress to match the drear. From Wordnik.com. [Styling in the Rain] Reference
Behind the girl lay the warm, bright hall that had always been so empty and drear in his boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
But it was not necessary to face that drear future yet, not until they had expended every possible effort. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
I thought of the days of my childhood ways, but storm and drear had changed things to an age of bronzed hue. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Creation] Reference
The flare of torches wavered afar between the tree boles, and above the lapping of the waves walled a drear hymn. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
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