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"Uncheerful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seeing, busy with his own uncheerful thoughts. But after a while he began to speculate idly on the scene around him, turning to the outward and material for distraction, if not for actual comfort. And so the stream of carriages and hansoms, and the conspicuously ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet
... last. The British victories have swept the clouds away and there are no uncheerful faces. For three months the private dinner parties (we go to no public ones) have been Lodges of Sorrow, and just a little depressing sometimes; but now they are smiley and animated again. Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman and the Irish lady, the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... reward of their own labours. A few years ago this class would not have cared to shift; now they feel the general disquiet. They live close to it. Tea-and-sugar borrowing friends have told them jocularly, or with threats, of a good time coming when things will go hard with the uncheerful giver. The prospect appeals neither to their reason nor to their Savings Bank books. They hear—they do not need to read—the speeches delivered in their streets on a Sunday morning. It is one of their pre-occupations to send their children ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling |
Words linked to "Uncheerful" : grim, sombre, sunshine, drear, joyless, depressing, cheerfulness, melancholy, dingy, sorry, gloomy, somber, dark, sunniness, dismal, cheerful, cheer, cheerless, drab, uncheerfulness, disconsolate, dreary, unhappy |
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