He trudged up to the top of the curtain wall, waiting in dull misery for her signal.

Once her fingers were gone, of course, she could no longer do the chores or feed herself, and soon expired in dull misery.

Raymond sat limply in a chair, his eyes glazed with dull misery.

Clermont spent the next twenty-four hours in a state of dull misery.

He thought of the hotel room in Paris, and the look of dull misery in Henry's eyes when his attempt at extortion had failed.

I lay there in dull misery.

It was easier that way, in the dull misery of rain and exhaustion and the impossible task.

At length the lethargy of despair, the black dull misery wore away; and she gradually returned to a condition of coherent thought.

And then a dull misery from Rebecca's dream kept breaking through.

So why didn't she feel relief instead of dull misery?