dismal-looking

In my Paradise Inn room in neighboring Pakistan, I have been looking out the window at a dismal-looking building that is either half constructed or half demolished, I really can't tell which.

Stewart Nusbaumer: On My Way To Afghanistan 2009

The picture in her left hand was of a pale-faced, salt and pepper haired, dismal-looking Smith — a picture of her past.

Living with AIDS in the House of Hope 2008

The stove might be dismal-looking to some eyes, not to mine, but it was indisputably very warm, and there were two gentlemen seated by it talking in French; impossible to follow their rapid utterance, or comprehend much of the purport of what they said — yet French, in the mouths of Frenchmen, or

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

It was a dismal-looking place, with dirt-encrusted windows and a wide-open door that allowed the interested passerby glimpses of tumbled piles of furniture.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

It was gray and dismal-looking, and it felt like snow was in the air.

Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004

That night we rounded the island of Mitylene: and the next day the coast of Troy was in sight, and the tomb of Achilles — a dismal-looking mound that rises in a low dreary barren shore — less lively and not more picturesque than the Scheldt or the mouth of the Thames.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

You saw no quality of any sort, indeed, just working people sitting in dull rows with nothing to stare at but a few young bouncing females in pot hats, riding astride, or desultory Colonials charging up and down on dismal-looking hacks; with, here and there, little girls on ponies, or old gentlemen jogging their livers, or an orderly trying

To Let 2004

It was a dismal-looking place, with dirt-encrusted windows and a wide-open door that allowed the interested passerby glimpses of tumbled piles of furniture.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

It was gray and dismal-looking, and it felt like snow was in the air.

Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004

It was gray and dismal-looking, and it felt like snow was in the air.

Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004