When the maria show dark, the lines are lost in the sombreness of the background.
Nevertheless, we are probably justified in our conviction that perpendicularly visaged, they would on the whole outdo in sombreness land round about them, and so be evident as dusky patches against a brighter ground.
In contrast with the antiquity of many places in its neighborhood, it has a bright, new face, and seems almost to smile even amid the sombreness of an English autumn.
Viewing a canvas of the latter is like going out into the blazing sunlight from the coolsombreness of a house.
At times it emerges from its sombreness and blossoms forth in all the hot softness of now the Venetians, of again the Spaniards; but compared with the artist's genius for plastic form it is of subsidiary importance.
The window-curtains, the duchess set on the dressing-table, and the coverlet on the bed were the only touches of white to relieve the general sombreness that prevailed.
Tis a pity that so much sombreness should lie in chests when there are perhaps poor souls to whom it would be a godsend.
The work embraces moods and colours from brilliant exhilaration to sombreness and poignant emotion.
The sense it gives of loneliness and sombreness has never been quite equalled by any other composer.
The splendor of the court and age of Louis XIV was beginning to brighten the sombreness of the northern primeval forests.
The gay uniforms worn by the greater portion of them relieved the sombreness of the black suits of their civilian associates.
The sombreness of his costume, the glitter in his eyes, the icy coldness of his lack of coloring, though time after time he set down his wineglass empty, were curiously impressive.
His evening clothes hung with more than ordinary precision about his long slim body, his black tie and black pearl stud supplied the touch of sombreness so aptly in keeping with the mirthless, bitter smile which still parted his lips.
For the rest, her hair, smoothly brushed away from her face, was in perfect order, her prim little hat was at exactly the right angle, her little white tie alone relieved the sombreness of her black jacket.
It was the first time I had seen any attempt made by any of them to lighten the sombreness of their surroundings, and it was also the first time I had seen the three together.
There were too few candles in the house to make it bright, but Lucetta's unearthly beauty, the peace in Loreen's soft eyes, made us forget the sombreness of our surroundings and the meagreness of the entertainment Hannah attempted to offer us.
A terriblesombreness is achieved in its former half by a notable simplicity.
On the Water" is profound with sombreness and big simplicity.
Its sombreness also emphasized the ivory whiteness of her neck and hands, while the pallor and weariness of her face awoke a tenderness that was far more than pity in the man.
His face was once more bronzed by wind and sun, but it had not wholly lost the sombreness Forel had noticed when he had last seen him in Vancouver.
The sombreness of the picture is emphasized by contrast with the brightness and gaiety that characterized the life in Philadelphia during that same winter when the British troops occupied the city.
The very sombreness that--be it from his mournful garments or from a mind of thoughtful habit--seemed to envelop him was but an additional note of poetry in a personality which struck her now as eminently poetical.
The house was strangely quiet, and he looked about him with the impatience of a lover for his wife, that she might chase away the unaccustomed sombreness which seemed to have descended upon the place.
The wind rustled mournfully among the dry leaves, the pebbles rattled against the spade of the grave-digger, increasing the sombreness of a scene which might easily affect one at all susceptible to outward influences.
She was dressed for dinner, and he noticed that there was an air of unusual sombreness about her attire, as though she felt that any gaiety of apparel would be incongruous.
There was a bowl of dark crimson carnations on the little work-table, and a cluster of the same fragrant flowers relieved the sombreness of Mrs. Blake's black gown.
Neither did he mind the lack of fire, the cold sombreness of his big bedroom.
Those were early days after the war, when as yet very few foreigners had returned, and the place had the native sombreness and intensity.
The place had a severely business-like air; and yet its very simplicity and the sombreness of its tints had hitherto always given Hubert, who knew the room, a sense of pleasure.
Perhaps it was also the sombreness of her attire which gave a look of fragility--an almost painful fragility--to her appearance.
I fear nothing," I answered with a smile; yet the stillsombreness of the woods found a little tremor in my breast.
It remains to comment, here, on the contrast between the peaceful character of these first years at Concord and the increased sombreness of some of the visions there recorded.
The touch about avoiding the cares of life is no doubt merely metaphorical; but the self-imposed doom of eternal loneliness reveals the excess of sombreness in which he clothed his condition to his own perception.
He went up the wide stairs unceremoniously to the suite of formal rooms along the street, where, to his amazement, he found the Escobar family seated in the sombreness of drawn curtains, and all of them with their faces marked with tears.
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