Sloomy

"Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you." The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself.

[…] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.

He moaned and complained in a sloomy way, but was too slurry-witted to do more. With his head down, his eyes closed, he muttered her name […]