The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
Quotes about dismally (7 Quotes)
We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match.
It was already one in the morning the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
Eradicating gambling is as futile as trying to wipe out prostitution. But regulating well is another matter altogether and that is where government failed dismally in past months.
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.