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Sentences starting with gloom

Gloom and despondency came fast upon the heels of Republican exultation. [9]

Sentences ending with gloom

The city reeked with smoke and acrid, stale gas, the electric lights were turned on to dispel the November gloom. [9]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
It stays on when the darkness comes, reigning in the gloom. [11]
All the lights were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and solemn gloom. [5]
Only in the three fortified guardhouses, which had been hastily erected here, the feeble light of a lantern illumined the gloom. [10]
Not even upon the staff of the flag--for that, a needle in the distance at any time, was now untouched by the light and undistinguishable in the gloom. [5]
We nodded in the saddle, at times, and woke up with a start to find that the procession had disappeared in the gloom. [5]
They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom. [5]
The brilliancy of the morning had given place to greyness, the high slits of windows seemed dirtier than ever as the train pulled into the station at Hampton, shrouded in Gothic gloom. [9]
When she closed the little eyes which had gazed into her pale face so often and so tenderly, it seemed as if the sun, moon, and stars had lost their light, and henceforth she was condemned to live in dreary gloom. [10]

Sentences containing gloom two or more times

Lyman called a halt; and there, in the deep gloom of the overhanging branches, he began to whisper a plan of assault upon that house, which made the gloom more depressing than it was before. [5]

More example sentences with the word gloom in them

He easily descried Wrangle through the gloom, but the others were not in sight. [13]
He now suddenly wished that brighter light might dispel the gloom which just now he had found so restful; for the lady Euryale's demeanor would show him whether Melissa were still a virtuous maiden. [10]
And the gorge widened to narrow outlet and the gloom lightened to gray. [13]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
The little Chevalier watched the boat glide out into the gloom of night, and waited till he knew that they must all be aboard Ranulph's schooner and making for the sea. [11]
Not a star was visible in the sky, but bright spots, like will-o'-the-wisps, moved through the dense gloom in regular order near Lanimen. [10]
During 1817 Irving was mostly in the depths of gloom, a prey to the monotony of life and torpidity of intellect. [4]
When the heat was greatest and the spiritual gloom thickest the American threw out the sand-bags, as it were, and hope mounted again. [11]
A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
He does not vouchsafe a glance at the jubilant crowd, but gazes down at the road, his well-shaped brow so deeply furrowed with gloom that he might be meditating some evil deed. [10]
Venters looked out upon the beautiful valley--beautiful now as never before--mystic in its transparent, luminous gloom, weird in the quivering, golden haze of lightning. [13]
All this, with unbounded luxury, unbridled debauchery, gloom, and revelry hand in hand. [4]
Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: "Rustic trees, your dark branches shed gloom and melancholy upon me. [2]
The gloom began to thicken, by-and-by, and the King realised that the night was coming on. [5]
He awoke, too, to some of the social gaieties about him, and found pleasure in the things that in the hour of his gloom had seemed mainly mockery. [5]
He looked up to see the resolute gloom of the half-breed's eyes, and that sneering smile, fixed upon him still. [11]
I had often to get up in the night, and seek the bedroom of my brother, as if the having a human being by me would relieve me from the frightful gloom of my own thoughts. [4]
He waved it to and fro in his wild harangue; he threw up his arms towards the ominous gloom, and with blatant fury ordered open the prison doors. [11]
At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's. [2]
No doubt, Jane thought, the rider, in his almost superhuman power of foresight, saw behind the horizon the dark, lengthening shadows that were soon to crowd and gloom over him and her and little Fay. [13]
In days like these, when the old ache again attacked him, Barbara and her singing had brightened the dreary gloom and lessened the pain, or she had caressed and sung it entirely away. [10]
In spite of the surrounding gloom, Ledscha recognised the man who left the boat. [10]
They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. [5]
Soon, out of the pale gloom shone a still paler thing, and that was the low swell of slope. [13]
To add to the gloom, almost every living thing seems to have departed, and not a whistle of a bird nor the bark of the squirrel can be heard in this solitude. [5]
Still moving through the gloom of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre we came to a small chapel, hewn out of the rock--a place which has been known as "The Prison of Our Lord" for many centuries. [5]
Yellow dust like the gloom of the cave, but not so changeless, drifted away on the wind; the roar clapped in echo from the cliff, returned, went back, and came again to die in the hollowness. [13]
It is not the gloom of deep forests or dark caverns, but a peculiar kind of solemn silence and impressive awe that holds one perforce to its recognition. [5]
He disappeared in the gloom of a "side drift" just as a head appeared in the mouth of the shaft and somebody shouted "Hello! [5]
But familiarity dispersed the gloom and the superstitious fancies. [4]
His head-dress touched the ceiling, and the narrow streak of light, which fell through the opening in the roof, streamed on his handsome head and his breast, while all around him was veiled in twilight gloom. [10]
That much of the business might be seen from the veranda, but all else was concealed amidst the interior gloom. [5]
The puffing of the boat is music in this gloom, which affects one most curiously. [5]
It's the kind that sheds a gloom. [5]
But, on learning that she was to be placed under Paula's care, he seemed startled, and gazed at the floor in such sullen gloom that the other easily guessed what was going on in his mind. [10]
The gloom and suspense of the night just passed went from him, and into the sunshine he sang: "Oh, grand to the war he goes, O gai, vive le roi! [11]
The terrible losses suffered by Grant's army in the battles of the Wilderness spread general gloom. [7]
I felt my spirits rise, and I set myself to carry things off gaily, to have this last hour with her clear of gloom, for it seemed easy to think that we should meet no more. [11]
Maybe a merciful Spirit sees how, left alone, we should have stumbled and lost ourselves in our own gloom, and so gives us a new temper fitted to our needs. [11]
You seem to sit with the dead in the gloom of a tomb. [5]
His face now showed none of the passion and sternness which had been present when he passed the Sentence of the Patrin upon Jethro Fawe; nothing of the gloom filling his eyes as he left Ingolby's house. [11]
Then his face settled into thoughtfulness --almost into gloom. [5]
He had never seen the paraschites, but he perceived the glimmer of his little fire through the dust and gloom, and he knew that he lived in this place. [10]
He kept the secret another day, hoping by some chance she might grow less moody, and to his exceeding anxiety she fell into far deeper gloom. [13]
I would have sacrificed all Alexandria to preserve Caesar's mind from gloom and care. [10]
Now, in a room of the citadel which looked out on the darkness of the river and the deeper gloom of the Levis shore, they sat and talked, a single candle burning, their weapons laid on the table between them. [11]
He was greatly respected in this section of the country, and his untimely decease cast a gloom over the whole community. [5]
She ceased to reply to her father's remarks, and he at last relapsed into gloom, and said that he was tired and would go to bed. [11]
Fill that whole region with an impenetrable gloom of smoke from a hundred miles of burning bagasse piles, when the river is over the banks, and turn a steamboat loose along there at midnight and see how she will feel. [5]
She was playing Ranulph's game, because she instinctively felt that behind this story there was gloom in his mind and mystery in the tale itself. [11]
Even for these purposes, that novel is the best which shows us the best possibilities of our lives--the novel which gives hope and cheer instead of discouragement and gloom. [4]
As though to punish herself, she began to speak of Tarboe, and Mrs. Grier's face clouded; she spoke more of Tarboe, and the gloom deepened. [11]
My comrades were passing out of sight in the gloom. [5]
The portraits were painted on thin panels of sycamore or of cypress, and in most of them the execution betrayed that their destiny was to be hidden in the gloom of a tomb. [10]
As he galloped over the veld, or sat with his pipe beside the camp-fire, Rudyard Byng was also drawn into the frigid gloom of the ugly thought, and his mind asked the question, Did she kill him? [11]
Clouds were lowering over the city, and big drops falling, as Stephen threaded his way homeward, the damp anal gloom of the weather in his very soul. [9]
That friend--single gentleman, or younger brother, which you will--had at his heart a heavy sorrow; but it bred in him no misanthropy or monastic gloom. [12]
Yet he is oppressed by the gloom hanging over the booksellers' trade, which he thinks will continue until reform and cholera have passed away. [4]
She had seen only the light, not the shadow, the darkness, the gloom, which had clouded his course of fame. [10]
Then he paddled on, trusting, with a small hope, that through his great strength he could keep ahead till darkness came, and then, in the gloom, they might escape. [11]
She ran in on them from the gloom, saying in a sharp, aching voice: "Stop, stop! [11]
A gloom fell on the gamblers suddenly, and they slowly drew into a group, looking half furtively at one another. [11]
The few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good-natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design. [2]
For the sake of the first person that came to you as a poor substitute for our lost daughter, you are ready to go to your death, and to drag me with you into the gloom of Hades. [10]
In the intervals of the dance wine passes, and idle things are said beside the draped and cushioned capstan or in the friendly gloom of a boat, which, in the name of safety, hangs taut between its davits. [11]
The pale gloom of the cave had shadowed people long ago. [13]
The dark-mahogany trim, of sufficiently ugly design, gave a rich gloom to the hallway, which was wide and paved with marble; the carpeted stairs curved aloft through a generous space. [8]
The red glow of light from the shaded candles on the table, and the corners of the dining room filled with gloom. [9]
Then followed scraping of claws and pattering of feet; and out of the gray gloom below him swiftly climbed the dogs to reach his side and pass beyond. [13]
A dense growth of ash, oak, gum, and hickory make the shores almost impenetrable, and where one can get a view down some avenue in the trees, only the dim outlines of distant trunks can be barely distinguished in the gloom. [5]
Touching the head of an enemy was strictly prohibited; yet many a slight wound was given while fighting in the gloom of the woods. [10]
With a moan of agony he felt the dolorous flood above his shoulders, and then a cry pierced the gloom and the loathsome misery, and a voice he knew called to him, "David, David, I am coming! [11]
When darkness would obscure his mind, and a thick cloud of gloom would bewilder its operations, her intelligent eye darts a ray of streaming light into his heart. [5]
It was night now, and the pleasant gloom of the valley was not broken by any sound save the hum of the stream near by, and the song, and the ringing anvil. [11]
But Petya did not let go of him and Dolokhov saw through the gloom that Petya was bending toward him and wanted to kiss him. [2]
The affianced couple, no longer alluding to trees that shed gloom and melancholy upon them, planned the arrangements of a splendid house in Petersburg, paid calls, and prepared everything for a brilliant wedding. [2]
The garden beneath my window, before wrapped in gloom, was gently lighted up; the orange and citron trees were tipped with silver; the fountain sparkled in the moonbeams, and even the blush of the rose was faintly visible. [4]
The introduction of Mr. Meigs in the guise of an accepted family friend and traveling companion chilled King and cast a gloom over the landscape. [4]
From rosy, golden morning light they passed into cool, dense gloom. [13]
Advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom. [12]
In a minute more a tall skeleton, hooded, and half clad in a tattered and moldy shroud, whose shreds were flapping about the ribby latticework of its person, swung by me with a stately stride and disappeared in the gray gloom of the starlight. [5]
There was no moon, but the stars gave a light that relieved the gloom. [11]
But about this moment those dreadful shriekings were heard again; again the rumbling and thundering came speeding up out of the night; and once more a flaming great eye flashed by and lost itself in gloom and distance. [5]
We answered his military salute in the grateful gloom of his near presence, and then passed on into the pitiless white glare again. [5]
In Porphyrius' house, meanwhile, all was gloom and anxiety. [10]
He was soon marching at their head through the narrow, rocky valley, and after moving silently an hour through the gloom the warriors enjoyed the refreshing coolness which precedes the young day. [10]
Pierre turned and looked towards the village below, whose lights were burning like a bunch of fire-flies in the gloom. [11]
It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. [2]
This seemed to lift the gloom a little, and under the influence of the tea they brightened up and gradually got more cheerful. [4]
Thou wouldst not leave us all in gloom Because thy song is still, Nor blight the banquet-garland's bloom With grief's untimely chill. [6]
His gloom at last became fanaticism. [11]
Tom got his lantern, lit it in the hogshead, wrapped it closely in the towel, and the two adventurers crept in the gloom toward the tavern. [5]
After I had lain quiet a long, long time, a dim form passed by me and was swallowed up in the gloom that pervaded the farther end of the house. [5]
The room itself is of dark wood, and evening has thrown it into gloom. [11]
Light is admitted into the interior through a double screen of pierced marble, which tempers the glare of an Indian sky while its whiteness prevents the mellow effect from degenerating into gloom. [5]
As Jasmine gazed into the gloom, spattered with a delicate radiance which did not pierce the shadows, but only made lively the darkness, she was suddenly conscious of the dull regular thud of horses' hoofs upon the veld. [11]
His pensiveness passed into gloom, and was degenerating into sulky resentment when he went away, after several failures to get back to the old ground he had held in relation to Alma. [8]
He sank down in the gloom, waiting, listening. [13]
The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors of the stage. [5]

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