All three were eager and excited: Copplestone could only respond to their inquiries with a gloomyshake of the head.
The laughing Irishman was gone, and a stern, gloomy man stood in his place.
Trikaliss looked very gloomy when he heard the stranger had left before sunrise, and the following night he called Timar to his cabin.
That night the little country cousin, Phoebe Pyncheon, arrived at the gloomy old house.
The Escape Into the Outer World The stimulus of this new desire--the desire of seeing the world--soon had its effect in making Rasselas no longer gloomy and unsociable.
The gloomy shores which Dante's boat is approaching are as desolate as the spirits who wander through the night.
Now, enraptured genii visit the slumbering Fair One in forest-shadows, under the shimmering moon; now she is stealing secretly down to bathe in a tranquil lake, and gazes with astonishment upon her own likeness in the gloomy mirror.
One begins to be disgusted with one's self, and then all is over," he had once in his youth written to his mother with gloomy foreboding.
His palette was thus further enriched in lucid tints, the contrasts he formerly delighted in became less sharp and glaring, the gloomy background hitherto preferred was superseded by a bright serenity and a golden lustre.
In the shadows of the falling evening he reminds himself forlornly of past days, and his bald forehead, where so many rose-coloured dreams have passed, is overcast with gloomy shadows.
Worshipper though he was of light and colour, he was almost always shut up in his gloomy studio, and it was only when he found himself brush in hand that the reserved man became the passionate, vibrating painter.
His pictures, whether they be violent or eccentric, tender or hard, gloomy or joyous, nearly always move and palpitate with life itself, and they will always keep their attraction.
I don't know; but monsieur has been very gloomy the last few days.
Tell me the Lord will come; In that victorious hour, The dark and silent tomb Must yield its gloomy power; For he shall call his slumbering dead, Forever from their dusty bed.
I met him in his gloomy cell, Where all alone and sad, He spent the darksome day and night In homely vesture clad.
When you're deprived of these, how sad, Gloomyand desolate.
Gloomy asceticism has yielded to more hopeful views of life.
The fatal palace of Eblis, with its lofty columns and gloomy towers of an architecture unknown in the annals of the earth, looms darkly in our imagination.
He sought untiringly for unusual situations, inordinately gloomy or terrible, and made them the starting point for excursions into abnormal psychology.
Even in the gloomy regions of Eblis, Beckford will not wholly repress his sense of the ridiculous.
At length the gloomylover persuades Isidora to marry him.
The people are apt to be merged into the dense shadows that lurk in the gloomy passages, but when the sun shines on them they stand out with arresting distinctness.
He was not a man of morose and gloomy temper, disenchanted with life and driven by distress or thwarted passion to brood in solitude.
In The Epicurean, Moore shows a remarkable power of describing scenes of gloomy terror, which he throws into relief by occasional glimpses of light and splendour.
Walter Grierson was engaged when Jimmy called, and the visitor spent half an hour glancing round the gloomy office, and wondering how anyone could be content to spend his days in such a place.
That part of it was true, whatever else had been false; and she was alone in that gloomy little hotel, eating her heart out, conscious that she had lost him.
He felt he must get outside that gloomy barn of the hostelry, must go where there was life and movement, and, and if he could find it, society.
No man in those gloomy days could read them without tears, I have seen suppressed sobs and eyes glistening in tear-mist when they were sung in public assemblies.
The last Rambler was written in a sad and gloomy hour.
He led the way through an entrance hall into a large salon of chill and gloomy aspect.
He gazed unseeingly out of the window at the acacias, glistening with the wet of last night's steady rain, gloomy under the still grey sky.
Gloomy place, this," commented Roger, glancing into the cold and orderly salon.
It was not the mild grief that could be soothed by sympathy; it was the gloomy anguish of remorse, the humiliating sense of unworthiness, the incurable torture of shame.
While our adventurer was engaged in the gloomy musings that such impressions were not ill adapted to excite, the heavens and the sea began to exhibit another aspect.
I like it better than your gloomy fields of black, with death's heads, and other childish scare-crows.
In the midst of these encouraging omens, the sun dipped into the sea, illuming, as it fell, a wide reach of the chill and gloomy element.
A shade of gloomy distrust, which had gathered over the brow of the Rover during the foregoing scene, lighted a little as he listened to the direct and frank avowal of his lieutenant.
The others listened to the footsteps overhead with a gloomy assent of silence.
But later they had yielded, for their pride was undermined by their own gloomyconvictions as to Madelon, which they confided not to one another.
And as the insurance companies would have inquired curiously into any arrangement for heating that gloomy space on the tops of the bins, the plan had to be given up.
The long, gloomy gallery was empty when Bannon and Hilda stepped into it, excepting a group of men at the farther end, installing the rollers for the belt conveyor--they could be seen indistinctly against a light in the river house.
Hilda saw, in her side glances, the gloomy expression that had settled upon his face; and she recovered her spirits first.
So fair Janet in her green mantle went that gloomy night to Miles Cross.
When they approached its mouth they were struck with the gloomy magnificence of the sight.
In the gloomy street it made me hear nature's music in woods and fields; I loved the instrument.
He who thus separates from the world in order to live to the spirit, enters a gloomy life, which is irreceptive of the joy of heaven.
If we view it from the gloomy depths of hell or from the sunny heights of heaven, we see it to be the same infinite, eternal, divine reality.
He sings of sun-tipped peaks andgloomy canyons, flowery fields and wooded wilds.
But what has put such gloomy thoughts in your head?
This high temple of the Adriatic is vast and curious, but wanting in effect, owing to the low roof and the gloomy light.
As the sun breaking through a fog, or an Alpine peak flashing through mists, so burst this magnificent pile upon me; and its sudden revelation dispelled on the instant all my gloomy musings.
There was scarce a prison whose walls did not immure some disciple of the Lord Jesus; and scarce a public square which did not reflect the gloomy light of the martyr's pile.
Such was the land of the Vaudois; the predestined abode of God's Church during the long and gloomy period of Anti-christ's reign.
The Troy and the Marathon of the ancient world have found their representative in the modern one, in that gloomy expanse in Flanders where Napoleon witnessed the total defeat of his arms and the final overthrow of his fortunes.
In the middle of the esplanade rose the Castle of Milan,--a gloomy and majestic pile, of irregular form, but of great strength.
In the large marble house in the centre of the square one might buy at a reasonable rate an excision of some thousands of years from his appointed sojourn in that gloomy region.
Our path was now through a dense, gloomyforest where Silence and Twilight, "Twin sisters keep Their noonday watch, and sail among the shades, Like vaporous shapes half seen.
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