dreary

Nearly a year after the shootings in Newtown, Murphy was again in Bridgeport City Hall, on a dreary Thursday.

Long and dreary was the passage northward from Ronaldsay to Stronsay.

It was a welcome refuge to us, for we had well nigh perished with cold on the dreary paramo.

Then you think of the home-life in the long winters as dreary; but it is not so.

Only long succession of dreary diatribes, with Gerald Balfour occasionally interposing with new promise of benignant sway.

I could not shake off that picture of her, sitting alone in that dreary rotunda of accumulated human knowledge.