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It was a dank, clammy night, made gloomy by the intermittent drizzle that had become steadier as the light of day faded with the sunset.
The selling agent admits she hasn't even set foot in the dark, dank basement, and the rest of the accommodation is almost as gloomy.
Others were less gloomy, reading a cheering message into the fact that cricket was played at all.
I was somewhat gloomy and depressed those days, but I felt refreshed by the surrounding trees and prayerful atmosphere.
The cavern funnelled down to a gloomy interior with a floor at 16m and seemed ideal for the purpose.
The gloomy gray clouds passed over the sun and a enormous shadow stretched across the frosty grass.
Adding to this gloomy scenario is the fact that reservoirs in northeastern Colorado have been drawn down substantially.
This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling.
The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans.
Lucia looked outside and saw grey smoldered clouds glooming over her house, the redness of dawn shined behind its gloomy mask.
If you want to really know London, don't stop at the Tower of London with its gloomy turrets and Crown Jewels.
As a painter he is best known for dramatic and sinister architectural views, with figures dwarfed by their gloomy surroundings.
The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.
Last weekend's wet, wild and woeful trip to gloomy south Wales did turn out to have a silver lining for at least one Borders player.
The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us.
A pluviophile is a lover of rain who never feels gloomy when it rains but finds joy and happiness!
I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought, just at the close of day the gentle gales retired.
The weather will be changeably cloudy, occasionally gloomy and mainly rainless in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula.
My introspection loses a lot of its working energy and becomes sluggish, gloomy, self-nagging and self-doubting.
Unexpectedly, a cover of sadness veiled her eyes and her voice took a gloomy turn.
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For him there was a palliative, or even a gloomy but an unanswerable excuse.
The giant was plunged in gloomy abstraction, and Vetch and the moocher interchanged a significant glance.
Mr. Rochester took breakfast with us in a gloomy old dressing-room, moody and taciturn, unpacified by sleep.
There was a touch of morosity about the late Rector of Lincoln which led him to take gloomy views of men, particularly Oxford men.
A gloomy breakfast was eaten, and the four remaining dogs were harnessed to the sled.
Hope fills the breast of the sanguine, despair that of the gloomy and desponding.
Shortly, among the Victorian horrors of his gloomy rooms, she came to see him off.
A room gloomy with black walnut and fragrant with camphor was dimly visible.
It is at best but a gloomy transfer from the mercies of a slave driver, to the justice of a military magistrate.
Taking his otago contingent with him, he left the pa under cover of night, and made good his escape through the gloomy swamps.
It was on the 19th of August, the weather dark and gloomy, with light breezes from north-northeast, in lat.
When the head of the column reached the edge of the gloomy forest a tucket sounded and the soldiers came to a halt.
This was gloomy news to us, for we knew that Chief bighead was one of the worst Indians on the river.
The kab ha-Yashar breathes a spirit of gloomy asceticism, and is expressive of a funereal frame of mind.
He took out his watch and looked at it, then his eye swept the broad row of trains in the gloomy, barnlike station.
It was a sad, gloomy, kindless November night, when Godfrey arrived in London.
So they held their tongues and watched the approach of the boat with gloomy, louring glances.
Yet perhaps it was the illumination which gave so gloomy a cast to Amalia's features.
He pointed across the square to a caf under the shadow of the gloomy prison.
He felt a little gloomy while the courses went on, and wished he had an evening paper.
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