"Drear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... help not merely his own solitary soul but all souls travailing through all the world, I might yet have remained where I was, an alien living indifferent to the common rule, like a monk of some shunned exotic order. But with convictions like mine, to do so would have brought the drear sense of derogation. All the miseries of the past were as nothing to that; there was but one manly course—to return and gird my loins for a new struggle with western life. Within a month from the time when this course was seen to be a duty, I was standing on the deck of a homeward-bound ...
— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith
... the Autumn days are here Make things snug for Winter drear; Storehouse filled with everything To last ...
— Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures • David Cory
... madness wild Dwells in that drear and Atheist doom! But death of horror is despoiled, When Heaven ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... them are blest, compar'd wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But, Och! I backward cast my e'e On prospects drear; An' forward, tho' I canna see,[8-15] ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... sad that lady grieved, In Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, And many a heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
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