MAN To your evil-boding inaction I oppose my living, daring strength; to your gloom my clear, resonant laugh!
However, for all the gloom of his works, Andreyev is not a pessimist.
Commence a gradual reduction of the temperature in correspondence with the decline of external heat; by such means the plants will be better prepared to withstand the gloom and other vicissitudes of the winter season.
When a few days of gloom occur, the humidity that sometimes becomes stagnant and injurious should be dissipated by a free circulation of air when bright weather returns.
She had no fear, though the very gloom and silence of the waiting crowd was more indicative of danger than noise or threats would have been.
Starting in terror from the gloom of his reverie, the boy began to talk fast to Helen, and tried to soothe her with descriptions of the lowly home which he had offered.
One part of Coombe Lorraine is famous for a sevenfold echo, connected by tradition with a tale of gloom and terror.
Among them Bonny whistled merrily, as his favourite custom was; to let the Pixies and the Fairies, ere he came under the gloom of the hill, understand that he was coming and nobody else to frighten them.
Three days of gloom and storm ensued upon the outbreak of the water; while the old house at the head of the Coombe in happy ignorance looked down upon its hereditary foe.
The mishap threw quite a gloom over his mind, and he almost decided on giving up the journey altogether.
The fantastic shadows of his peculiar imagination play on that wall fascinatingly enough; and the region of passion and of gloom within is not without a charm, if a somewhat unholy and unhealthy one.
But the phantasmagoria of gloom and blood and fire is powerfully presented.
When Anthea rejoined the others she found them all plunged in the gloom where she was herself.
His biographer relates of the late Ian Maclaren that, like many people who have Celtic blood in their veins, he was subject to curious fits of depression and gloom which did not seem to be in any way connected with bodily health.
Ordinary experience tells us that joy is good for us, that depression and gloomwork us bodily harm.
Dick walked leisurely along through the gloom of the summer night.
I hope that time and variety will dissipate the gloom that has so long surrounded me, and the latter part of my days will be spent in peace.
The rest, whose minds have no impression but of the present moment, are either corroded by malignant passions or sit stupid in the gloom of perpetual vacancy.
Your narrative," says he, "throws yet a darker gloom upon the prospects of futurity.
He had now discovered--what he had sacrificed many a perilous night to obtain a knowledge of--the mode by which the owner of the Tower of Gloom gained access to his impregnable fortress unsuspected.
The waters of the lake are singularly transparent near the rock on which the Tower of Gloom was perched; and Campbell beheld his victim gradually sinking, till he seemed to lie among the broad weeds under the waters.
With Roderick it operated in the former manner; for our hero had entirely divested himself of that gloomand melancholy which characterised his conduct upon his first return to the house of his parent.
While some were thus employed, others were endeavouring to peer through the gloom of the twilight, with a similar view.
Influenced by these mixed considerations, he applied for, and obtained a promise, if he should be able to surprise the Tower of Gloom and its proprietor, that he would be rewarded with a gift of the forfeited estate of Inshannock.
He received a grant of the lands of Inshannock; and the long-wished-for Tower of Gloom came into his hands, together with the sum of money offered for the capture or death of Reginald.
He had been removed from the Tower of Gloom by his mother's relations, about the time of the suppression of the rebellion, and placed by them in the Marischal College in the city of Aberdeen.
The gloom of a boisterous winter evening was settling over one of the wild, inhospitable tracts which lie to the north of the St Lawrence.
She felt a vague, grey gloom rising about her at the thought of spending several months there, with Cecil in this strange, cold, forbidding mood.
LVIII And now Sophy descended into the darkness of darkness where death and remorse sit brooding together--that vasty cavern of uttermost black gloom which underlies the Valley of the Shadow.
White chrysanthemums thrust their pretty dishevelled heads into the dance of gloomand shine.
He felt as he knew this great bare room must feel each fall when the last laugh died away down the mountain, and the gloom of winter descended from drab skies.
It was evident she had no share in the general gloom that the hermit's absence cast over Baldpate.
As he watched and listened his brain worked ceaselessly, conjuring picture after picture of what that danger might be, and at last he drew out of the firelight and concealed himself in the deep gloom of the bush.
The early gloomof afternoon was beginning to settle between the chasm walls, and at the end of his fourth pan Rod found that it was becoming so dark that he could no longer distinguish the yellow particles in the sand.
Only Mukoki, to whom gold carried but a fleeting and elusive value, was himself, and even his hopefulness was dampened by the gloom of his companions.
Quickly the red glow over the southwestern forests faded away; the gloom grew thicker; far ahead, like an endless sheet losing itself in a distant smother of blackness, stretched the ice and snow of Lake Nipigon.
Mukoki listened, and attended to the clothes drying before the fire, now and then walking out into the gloom of the chasm to look up to where the white rim of the fall burst over the edge of the great rock above them.
He worked to free himself of the weight that had fallen on him, stirred the fire until clouds of sparks shot high up into the gloom of the trees, and added new fuel.
Under its walls the gloomwas almost that of night.
His ears were keyed to the highest tension of expectancy, his eyes stared into the gloom beyond them until they ached with his efforts to see.
Head erect, arms tense, his eyes gleaming strangely, he stared straight out into the gloom between the chasm walls.
For several minutes the three stood silent, gazing out into the gloom of the vast solitudes that swept unbroken to Hudson Bay.
For an hour longer the moon continued to light up the wilderness; then, with its descent lower and lower into the west, the gloom began to thicken, until only the stars were left to guide the pursuers.
A feeling of gloom was on them all; without questioning, each knew what the fears of the others were.
I have felt strangely; a gloom is over me that I cannot shake off.
With the exception of one man who had invented a new feeding-bottle, and thought he was going to advertise it for nothing, the outside public did not respond, and over the editorial department gloom had settled down.
Alice quite acquiesced in this, having no great desire to be driven through the parks in the gloom of a February afternoon.
It tells of the shortness of the day, and contains even in its clearness a promise of the gloom of night.
It was between five and six when Mr Vavasor came back to his house, and he then found his daughter sitting over the drawing-room fire, without lights, in the gloom of the evening.
She now occupied one side of the table by herself, away from the fire, where she felt cold and desolate in the gloom of the large half-lighted room.
But now she felt that the halls of the Pallisers were too cold for her, and that the sooner she escaped from their gloom and hard discourtesy the better for her.
Blinds were closed up and down the avenues, where people had either long left their houses vacant or were sheltering themselves in depths of gloom in the tomb-like coolness of their double walls.
She turned her eyes, with the fiery gloom in them, away, pressing her forehead down against the pillow.
He has precision, economy, detachment, and, for all his gloom and squalor, charm also.
At the corner of one shed, sheltering from the weather, is a group of brown men in coloured rags, first seen in the gloom because of the whites of their eyes.
Everything is beautiful, even the ugly--why did Whistler paint the squalor of the London streets, or Brangwyn the gloom of a steam-crane?
The Arab evinced no intention of coming any nearer, and in an instant more the fugitives had plunged into the gloom of another cross street.
Far overhead the abandoned torch was glowing dimly on the summit of the cliff, a patch of brightness that made the gloom round about all the blacker by contrast.
Guy suddenly, and snatching the torch from Sir Arthur, he stood erect as the canoe shot gently toward a dim object that rose from the gloom twenty yards distant.
This remark, and the roar with which is was greeted, dispelled at once the gloom that had settled about the Royal Observer.
