In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, for example, the Doctor tells the reader: It was a dreary night in November… the rain pattered dismally against the panes. The adverb ‘dismally’ could ...
It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye ...
Oct. 18, 2024 Thirty minutes south of Portland, as rain pattered down from gray skies, Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican of Oregon, was at a wedding venue railing against Democrats in ...