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Definition of Drearinesses
1. dreariness [n] - See also: dreariness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drearinesses
Literary usage of Drearinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... shorn of drawback, or blot, or gloom, or discord, gives radiance to a whole
season, possessing the power to annihilate the drearinesses and roughnesses ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1901)
"The concert was one of those fragmentary drearinesses that people endure because
they are fashionable: tours deforce on the piano, and fragments from operas ..."
3. The Gilded Age by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874)
"The concert was one of those fragmentary drearinesses that people endure because
they are fashionable; tours de force on the piano, and fragments from ..."
4. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... amongst so many books, and children, and outdoor work, Mackay cannot find
leisure to brood and become morbid, and think of " drearinesses, wildernesses, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"But this we may say without offence, that had the whole business been monopolised
by their high and mighty Drearinesses, the males, the merest tyro in ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"more like myself, and more willing to take life comfortably, instead of interchanging
their respective drearinesses, and making melancholy out of anecdotes ..."
7. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"... as she has done before, and we talked about the weather and the run of the
ship and the manners of the stewardess and little drearinesses like that, ..."
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