The season was cold and rainy; and when they lit a fire in their living room, the big stove emitted so unwholesome and stifling a warmth, they were forced to throw open the windows to the bleak and penetrating wind.
This may go to show that the early inhabitants were different from the nomadic Indians that the first whites saw as they landed on the bleak shores of New England in the eleventh century.
Claire had been dismissed, and Stillman knew enough about present business stagnation to conclude that for the time, at least, Claire Robson faced a bleak outlook.
Willock took the first train south and rode with the car window up--the outside breath was the breath of balmy summer though the trees stood bleak and leafless against the sky.
What would happen in the nighttime as the stage pursued its lonely way across the bleak prairie?
The prospect of a snow-storm in the bleak lands of the Kiowa appalled him, but even while facing that possibility his mind was busy with Lahoma's attitude toward himself.
We delayed too long, however, and the Sea of Moyle looked as bleak and stormy as it did to the children of Lir.
On Moyle's bleakcurrent our food and wine Are sandy seaweed and bitter brine; Yet oft we feasted in days of old, And hazel-mead drank from cups of gold.
Now she was in the little local train and the bleak Cornish country, nearing the coast, spread before her eyes like a map of her future life.
We are all feeling very bleak and despoiled, aren't we?
Her face showed, perhaps, a bleak wonder, but it showed no softness.
Readers of “Bleak House” will remember this locality as the destination of the Reading Coach; so indicated by Messrs.
This was the locality of Tom All-Alone’s, that wretched rookery of evil repute in the days of Poor Joe, as described in chapter 16 of “Bleak House.
It is described in “Bleak House” as being “A narrow street of high houses like an oblong cistern to hold the fog.
For the full narrative, see “Bleak House,” chapter 9.
THE way is steep, and hard to tread, and drear; Piercing and bleak the icy atmosphere.
Nourished mid hardness, learning patience slowly As hearts must do which know no other food, Duty and Memory, companions holy, Shared thy bleak solitude.
These now bleak islands at one time supported extensive forests, although nowadays a tree will hardly grow unless it be carefully looked after.
Hence it is that the western margin of Harris is so much less bleakthan the opposite side.
The days grew bleak and chill, and an early fall of snow, heavier than had been known at that time of the year for a long while, put an end to golf.
The reaction against bare, bleak walls may not make it necessary to warn against over-decoration, but its undesirability should he recognized.
They found on the moorland bleak and cold Brother Sebastian, far from the fold.
It is a bleak patch in my life; even now the sight of its yellow-starred length, as cruelly straight as a sword, sends a shudder of chill foreboding down my back.
One conceived him much more readily nodding over the fire with the old port, than playing Chopin in a bleak concert-hall, laden with solemn purples and drabs, stark and ungarnished save for a few cold flowers and ferns.
However, I felt very fat, physically, and very Maeterlinckian, spiritually, as we clambered into a cab and swung up the great bleak space of Kingsway.
Puccini's feeling for atmosphere that with them he has given us all the bleak squalor of his story.
One of the first American children to open his eyes to the light of day in this bleak and barren place--Nome City--was Little Willie S.
Here they landed during the last days of September, amid falling snow, bleak winds and boiling surf, upon the sands of the most inhospitable beach in all that dreary Northland.
We learn to live with her, as people learn to live with fretful or violent spouses: to dwell lovingly on what is good, and shut our eyes against all that is bleak or inharmonious.
There, in the bleak and gusty North, I received, perhaps, my strongest impression of peace.
Under a rock too steep for man to tread, Where sheltered from the north and bleak north-west Aloft the Raven hangs a visible nest, Fearless of all assaults that would her brood molest.
One bleak autumn afternoon a thick, wet mist rolled in from the ocean and enveloped the town of West Haven so densely that it seemed like a city floating on a bank of cloud.
Meantime, the island, lashed by the storm, looked bleak and cold, and they wondered they could ever have admired it at all.
I started through me at her plight, So suddenly confessed: Dismissing late distaste for life, I craved its bleak unrest.
Then the season began to show signs of opening,--bleak signs, hardly recognizable to Annie; and after that Jim was not much in the house.
The door-yards were bleak to her eyes, without the ornamental shrubbery which every farmer in her part of the country was used to tending.
One can scarcely fancy Romaine itinerating at all; but if he had done so, the bleak moors of Yorkshire or the cottage homes of Bedfordshire would not have been suitable spheres for his labours.
