cheerless

With such a vivid prospect of despair, he carried his beaver some distance up the stream, split the meat for drying, and remained in cheerless solitude during the night.

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

My loved one’s name in cheerless solitude aye cheereth me, v. My lover came in at the close of night, iv.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

My loved one’s name in cheerless solitude aye cheereth me

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

She and Leo divorced in 1945, and eleven-year-old Gloria became housekeeper, cook, and caregiver to her mother during a period that, at best, can be called cheerless and at worst, spiritually and financially impoverished.

Gloria Steinem. 2009

Kondrat, without haste, was harnessing the horses after their feed, and I recalled my cheerless reveries of the day before.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

At evening -- the sunset had not yet begun to redden in the sky, but the shadows from the trees already lay long and motionless, and in the grass one could feel that chill that comes before the dew -- I lay down by the roadside near the cart in which Kondrat, without haste, was harnessing the horses after their feed, and I recalled my cheerless reveries of the day before.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

To the howling of the wind was added another kind of cheerless monotonous roar.

The Cossacks 2003

It was very much the same kind of cheerless day outdoors that it had been when they had first met each other after a lapse of many years.

The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World Margaret Vandercook

I guess the hospital must have appeared kind of cheerless, for lots of the wounded were lying on the bare ground, and it was a caution the way some of them groaned and groaned.

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

To the howling of the wind was added another kind of cheerless monotonous roar.

The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869