It came back to me on one of my slightly MELANCHOLY days, while I sat chin in hand, feeling to bored and limp to even make up my mind.

After May 1940 good times rapidly fled: first the war, then the CAPITULATION, followed by the arrival of the Germans.

Paul feels out of place among his friends because of his ARDENT love of classical music.

The funeral hall was filled with SOMBER faces.

I can't tell you how OPPRESSIVE it is never to be able to go outdoors.

Last week we had a little interruption in our MONOTONOUS life.

He showed OBSTINATE refusal to admit that things were bad.

She SURREPTITIOUSLY slipped from the room.

The DISMAL weather made the late afternoon seem like evening.

Pouring oil on the rink, the SABOTEUR caused her fiercest competitor to fall and break a leg.