O plead with gentle words for us, And whisper tenderly Of generous love to that cold heart, And it will answer ye; And though you fade in a dreary home, Yet loving hearts will tell Of the joy and peace that you have given: Flowers, dear flowers, farewell!"
Dreary gardens lay around, filled with withered flowers and bare, drooping trees; while heavy clouds hung low in the dark sky, and a cold wind murmured sadly through the wintry air.
The road led across a
dreary waste, without verdure; and where there was neither fountain, nor pool, nor running stream.
But the house was not altogether so
dreary as Clifford imagined it.
The vulgar, who, in those
dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story about the scarlet letter which we might readily work up into a terrific legend.
The time, the place, the circumstances under which we now stood face to face in the evening stillness of that
dreary valley--the lifelong interests which might hang suspended on the next chance words that passed between us--the sense that, for aught I knew to the contrary, the whole future of Laura Fairlie's life might be determined, for good or for evil, by my winning or losing the confidence of the forlorn creature who stood trembling by her mother's grave--all threatened to shake the steadiness and the self-control on which every inch of the progress I might yet make now depended.
It seemed strange and ghostlike in that
dreary old house, perhaps because of the already tremulous state of his nerves.
So she sat down to cry again and upbraid herself; and by this time the scholars began to gather again, and she had to hide her griefs and still her broken heart and take up the cross of a long,
dreary, aching afternoon, with none among the strangers about her to exchange sorrows with.
Past the
dreary lake, through the little pine-wood I ran, and then I was brought to a halt, panting, by cross-roads and a finger-post.
Disdain hath power to kill, and patience dies Slain by suspicion, be it false or true; And deadly is the force of jealousy; Long absence makes of life a
dreary void; No hope of happiness can give repose To him that ever fears to be forgot; And death, inevitable, waits in hall.
And it was a long, long night, weary and
dreary and long.
There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggrevated than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets.
A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields.
The chief pleasure and necessity of such men, when they encounter anyone who shows animation, is to flaunt their own
dreary, persistent activity.
that sheet of dull and
dreary water, then, is the sepulcher of the brave men who fell in the contest.
