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- Most austere
- Most stark
- Least hopeful
- Most dismal and desolate
- Most pessimistic
- Most bleak seen from vessel in first sea trial
- Most unpropitious defeat — about to escape
- Premier admitting revelation's most depressing
- Most dark bitter's bottled to make water
- The most severe strange tests incorporate major flood defence
- Most harsh task — rest after working
- The most severe tests modified around old flood defence
- Utterly cheerless star defends revelation
- Maximally exposed, first covering up hole