A certain dreariness overtakes the consistent, relentless cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping a Civil Tongue] Reference
The dreariness is a pretty terrible factor with this one as it gets overbearing at times. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
I despise this kind of dreariness -- rather be in state prison near the folks. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Springtime scatters the shuddering Autumn dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Its vastness, dreariness, and loneliness is appalling. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
And yet these days of dreariness are sent us from above. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
In short nothing could exceed the dreariness of the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Oh, the dreariness, the heaviness of a country dinner party!. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
Stagnant wastes of amber-hued water emphasized the dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
I had lost everything, I told myself with profound dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Italian Christmas amid the cold damp dreariness of a London slum. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The warmth and comfort within are intensified by the dreariness without. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
But against that dreariness must be set the four wooden chairs which the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
Nathalie's departure, however, seemed to break the spell of his dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
But he knew enough of dreariness, to be able to enter into Edgar's sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place] Reference
The young man turned and walked away, oppressed by a sense of gray dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
It presented anything but a striking appearance, unless for dreariness and ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
The voice, too, that answered her good morning, had a kind of echoing dreariness in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
All I have to do is sit and think about my situation and look at the dreariness of my life. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Dead Man (A Novella Excerpt)] Reference
It most nearly produces the sense of desolateness and dreariness of any portion of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
The cemetery was growing colder now, and he wakened, oppressed with the dreariness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
Farne Islands, of which Longstone is one, we cannot but be struck with their extreme dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
'I don't think the children were prepared for the barrenness and dreariness of an English winter. From Wordnik.com. [Bulbs and Blossoms] Reference
"Yes, Betty; are we the same girls?" answered Barbara, and her smile had just a touch of dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters] Reference
The visitor, standing in the doorway, was impressed by the dreariness of disorder which reigned inside. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
He renewed his complaints against the melancholy of the sea and the dreariness of the northern winters. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
Elizabeth knew from experience the dreariness of housework where all individuality is denied the worker. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Our skies are gloomy, our climate depressing, and the very dreariness of country life causes thousands to fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
There is probably no one who has not some time in his or her life felt the dreariness of fancied friendliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
She had never felt the utter dreariness of her loneliness and poverty so strongly as she had in the last bright. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
This wailing song is far from disagreeable, though it has a cadence which is expressive of dreariness and melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
How instantaneously did all dreariness and heaviness of the earth's spirit flit away before one smile of the beneficent sun!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Both McCain and Huckabee are refreshingly free-spirited and capable of rising above the dreariness and sordidness of the stump. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot vs. The Preacher] Reference
The whole apartment was clean to sanctity, and in its straitness and blank dreariness no unfit emblem of the faith it embodied. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
The economic wise man of the 21st century, Harvard's Ken Rogoff calls the present dreariness, "The Age of Diminished Expectation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Market Is More Carter Than Reagan] Reference
For some time after the wreck, the brothers seemed to experience a strange dreariness about the place which they never felt before. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
The landscape before her looks desolate and terrible, an unredeemed dreariness darkens her soul like a London fog -- thick, stifling. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
I started to go grey in my mid-30s and now I find it hard not to believe that grey hair is the exterior manifestation of inner dreariness. From Wordnik.com. [Is it time to go grey?] Reference
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