Something cheerless about the room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : drab, cheerless surroundings. From Dictionary.com.
My loved one’s name in cheerless solitude aye cheereth me. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
My loved one’s name in cheerless solitude aye cheereth me, v. My lover came in at the close of night, iv. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Kondrat, without haste, was harnessing the horses after their feed, and I recalled my cheerless reveries of the day before. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
It was very much the same kind of cheerless day outdoors that it had been when they had first met each other after a lapse of many years. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
To the howling of the wind was added another kind of cheerless monotonous roar. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
To be sure it was cold and cheerless in the empty house. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
For three days Tania stayed alone in that cheerless room. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
The houses are made of mud or stone and look cold and cheerless. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
It was a bleak and cheerless landscape that lay before the travelers. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
Fearfully they crept out-of-doors, only to find it as cheerless there. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
He glared about the cheerless kitchen and did not seem to see anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
They provide themselves with ample provisions and set out over the cheerless waste. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
That, Malone thought, was about the most cheerless thought he had heard in some time. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
How cheerless the prospect upon which the smile of a sustaining love has ceased to play!. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The tents where the people are housed who cannot find other shelter were cold and cheerless. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
As she gazed about the cheerless kitchen she noticed a muffled lump in the middle of the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Lexington over these holes and knobs in the road was a very cheerless one, and very disagreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I closed the shutters to keep out the cheerless dawn, and made the fire burn up, and lit the lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The seats were hard, and the lessons were dry, and the walls of the school-room were very cheerless. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Department Headquarters is in a government building down by the river, and the offices are most cheerless. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
It is pouring rain to-night and cheerless enough here, but I can only think of the poor men in the trenches. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
No one was at the station, a lonely, cheerless little place, where no traveller ever showed his face in winter. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was a cheerless prospect to contemplate, but he could not now help himself, even if he had the will to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
This cheerless landscape confronting the professor represented the state of existence to which the earth had come. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Next Louhi crept back to Kalevala and stole all the fire from the hearths, and left all their homes cold and cheerless. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
For, the months of rain had been full of gloom; the days dark and cheerless, the nights chill and dreary beyond measure. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
"The country has not heard anything as cheerless as this in years," remarked the Communist Party boss, Gennady Zyuganov. From Wordnik.com. [All That Glitters] Reference
"Do you not think that the lighthouse is a poor cheerless place after all the grandeur that you saw at the castle, Grace.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The red sun rose above the cheerless horizon and blazed on them from a deep azure sky slashed across by bars of purple and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
For a moment she has rest; for a moment she is in the light and warmth, she feels not the storm nor the cheerless winter weather. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
You wished us to keep a diary with every detail, which we will try our best to do, beginning by telling of the cheerless journey to. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
"I could study very hard," she told herself, when thinking the matter over very seriously, that night, in her own little cheerless room. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
The free baron passed through the door, leaving the cheerless practitioner still gravely engaged in getting together his small belongings. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
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