The comparison this week with the incumbent and would-be leaders of our allies tells a dismal tale.

An Unregulated Area The files in this department contain dismal tales of consolidators who have run off with the money.

But in order to shorten my dismal tale & not to stick upon minutiae I will tell you yt.

Your broken, ruined stones that fell, Many a dismal tale could tell.

Mr. Levy introduces his dismal tale by recalling the better times that began at the end of World War II.

In the morning, some fishermen saw him floating in his sheep-skin coat, and got him into their boat - the sole relater of the dismal tale.

He could hear the damage in the atonal whining of the servos, and the flashing red icons in his read out told their own dismal tale.

Old buzzards, prophesying their dismal tales of doom.

Heads slumped, the slow trudge from the field at the final whistle told its own dismal tale.

A dismal tale ensued: constant changes of homes, continents, nannies, housekeepers and boarding schools.