Word: drear
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...Through drear winter months of pregnancy, her mother plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...
...prospects grow sad and more drear...
...drear London twilight last week the old Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...
...shifted to Harlem, the Mother House of the new order was also brought there. The Roman Catholic Church considers Negroes "the humble members of Christ's Church." And it prefers not to leave them entirely to their Protestant churches, in which "a diluted Christianity, by essence drab and drear and emasculated, has been made feverish with the emotionalism of experience meetings, revivals and raucous-voiced hymns."- So white priests have, for a half-century, been urged by their bishops to work among the Negroes. Roman Catholics do not urge blackamoors to join their Church. But they do, by exquisite...
Today the course menu is rather drear and I am half tempted to succumb to my more domestic inclinations and stay within the bricked recesses of my Yard abode. However, I shall probably be present at Professor Tatlock's lecture at 9 o'clock in Sever 30 on "Native Influences on the Restoration Drama" because of my already evidenced fondness for that period. I expect to be well up and about for Professor Copeland's discourse on Samuel Johnson, which the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric will deliver in Sever 11 for the benefit of those in English...