1. It has areas of fabled wealth and of drear poverty. 2. The Darrow family has been looking for Dies Drear 's collection for years. 3. It is now a " drear and leprous and ashen " desert ( EN ). 4. And the epitaph drear , a fool lies here Who tried to hustle the East. 5. The yule log was lit in Britain and Scandinavia at the solstice to dispel darkness and drear . 6. And the epitaph drear : " A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East ." 7. "I wasn't going to limit myself to making it only a drear and tragic event," 8. On the title page he wrote, " There was an old fossil named Lear, Whose verses were boring and drear . 9. Together they hatch a plan to scare the Darrows away for good by pretending to be the ghosts of Dies Drear and the escaped slaves. 10. I accept as inevitable the autumnal equinox, the temporary equalization of day and night, the drear but only transient triumph of darkness over light.
