Drearily

Examples

• Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The rain fell heavily, drearily. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I dunnot believe she'll ever live again,' said he, sitting down, and drearily going on, as if to the unsympathising fire. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark; my spirits were depressed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The winter bareness spread drearily over it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As it was-- As it was, the rain fell heavily, drearily. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We often had occasion to pity Americans whom we found traveling drearily among strangers with no friends to exchange pains and pleasures with. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A large dog has been woke, apparently by the sound of the bell, and is howling and yawning drearily, somewhere round a corner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The day wore on to its end drearily and miserably enough, I can tell you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Drearily I wound my way downstairs: I knew what I had to do, and I did it mechanically. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It never passed, and a year later, although the time hung drearily with me, I would have been sorry to have seen it succeed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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