Word: cheerlessness
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...average price of rooms at Yale is seventy dollars. This is true enough, but we may venture to say that Yale rooms are dear at that price. In the old buildings everything is musty and shabby. In the new everything is so new as to give a cold and cheerless aspect to the rooms. Further, in the new buildings at Yale the rooms have no open grates, but are heated by close and unhealthy steam-pipes. Is it better to pay a few dollars less and spend your evenings with your feet on a hot iron pipe instead...
...carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body of non-society men are not unlike the semi-barbaric peoples of Illyria and Achaia, to which melancholy region I shall venture to compare the chilly and cheerless precincts of College House...
...winter cheerless sorrow made the cold more bitter still...
...cheerless darkness of the winter night...
...Unto her cheerless, dreary lodge alone...