Damps
[dæmps]
Examples
- Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Stephen