Trusting that ancient orchard's sainted roots, Whoever of the leprous apples eats Shall feel his faith grow darkened with a gloam That filters heresy's corroding sweets.
The gloam descends, the grove reposes; The leaves and branches through On the gold Paradise is opening one of blue.
Am I not like in thisgloam a Cluster of fruit concealed By the leaves, and by nothing revealed, Save in the night its aroma?
Now since I'm the Pa of that daily threat Which paints me as black as a thing of jet I rise in protest right here to say I won't be used in so fierce a way; No child of mine in the eveninggloam Shall be afraid of my coming home.
Yet that is ever his Mother's way Of saving herself from a bitter day; And well she knows in the evening gloam He won't be hurt when his Pa comes home.
The explanation of his behaviour which Gloam himself had given seemed, upon reflection, reasonable enough.
One summer afternoon Gloam and Swanhilda were sitting on the wooden bench beside the mill, watching the heavy revolutions of the great wheel.
Old Harold, the Scholar's father, he was a reckless devil if any man ever was; and when he died 'twas found that Gloam Hall and all belonging thereto must go to the auction.
It suggested the idea that Gloam was possessed by a strange spirit, more potent and more wicked than his own, which commanded his body to what uses it pleased, in spite of all that he could do.
David thrust his head out of the mill-room window, and saw Gloam make a gesture of rage and defiance.
Gloam had re-entered the house shortly after dark, and Jael presently went to his room to ask him where he would take his evening meal.
Gloam did not stir; but as Jael watched him narrowly, she fancied that his limbs and body slowly stiffened, until they became quite rigid; only his head had a slight shivering motion.
Gloam was too plainly in a state of delirious frenzy, if he were not actually mad.
She had told Gloam the news, intending (should he refuse a reconciliation) to acknowledge to him that his father was David's likewise.
Oh, to float in thegloam on the bubbly foam With her lily face above!
Oh, to list in the gloam by the pearly foam Of a sad, far-sounding shore The strain of the shell of an ocean belle From caves where the waters roar!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: darken; dim; dusk; gloaming; gloom; lour; lower; twilight
