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In his work is nothing to recall the gloominess of the period; he has seen in it nothing but exploits and heroic adventure. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
It felt like loss, with even more gloominess ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Schwartzberg: I Suffer From Campaign Withdrawal] Reference
I gave myself a shake, trying to dispel my gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
"I have had cause enough for gloominess," said Davenport. From Wordnik.com. [The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773] Reference
Anything to elevate her frame of mind and jam the gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Angels and Outlaws]
The book itself, however, is intriguing in spite of its gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
I must, I will, I have already, overcome these fruitless gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The mood of the people is sinking into a kind of permanent gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Politics] Reference
“Excuse the gloominess of this letter; yesterday I buried my child.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
Maybe it's the gloominess bringing out all this reflective introspection. From Wordnik.com. [RAIN RAIN GO AWAY] Reference
In spite of the gloominess of nature around him, he felt peculiarly eager. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
His case looked desperate, and he felt something like the gloominess of despair. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Thankfully, though, the showers have stopped and so has most of my own gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Winter and What It Brings] Reference
And if Howard attributed his gloominess to Dark Valley, Conan seems to attribute his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Bart, by attrition, gave in to the corroding gloominess that Melodie emitted like a gray fog. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds of Yesterday]
The gloominess inherent to the character has passed largely unnoticed, and understandably so. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Maybe all this gloominess has to do with the fact that the holiday season comes at the end of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Through A Glass, Darkly] Reference
At this instant a large heavy cloud obscured the sun, and added a grace to the gloominess of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.] Reference
The moment she crossed the threshold she forgot the clouds and rain and gloominess which had depressed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The inside was sombre, not so much owing to the gloominess of the day as the heaviness of the architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Rau put the gloominess down to self-pity, not paying enough attention to what is happening in other countries. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2003] Reference
It is extremely formal, and yet there is about it none of the gloominess one associates with New York dining-rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
She at once thought of kindling a fire as the only means she had of taking away some of the gloominess of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
But unlike most folks working graveyard hours, the count didn't have to explain his gloominess to a boss and a family. From Wordnik.com. [Living On Dracula Time] Reference
Frederica attempted to keep the gloominess she felt out of her voice, having no wish to dampen her friend's good humour. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Deception]
The vicissitudes of all seasons occurred in one, and, before my spring had closed, I had felt the winter's gloominess and cold. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
Strangely enough, his gloominess rarely found its way into his poetry, which often was highly amusing, as you know who have read. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
To add to the gloominess of the whole, a large hawk rose heavily from the very spot where the poor victim had been cut in pieces. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
The doctor reacted against the gloominess of the situation and retained all the coolness and self-possession of a disciplined heart. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
This remark did not seem to help, and in the face of Mma Makutsi's sudden and taciturn gloominess, Mma Ramotswe herself became silent. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Shoes And Happiness]
Lamps gave light to see by and a brazier some warmth, though men sat wrapped in furs and their breath smoked white through gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
And in the end, despite the recent gloominess at WNBC-4, Friday night's party turned into a jovial affair, according to several attendees. From Wordnik.com. [WNBC Staffers Toast Their Former Colleagues at 'Severance-Fest 2009'] Reference
Ned leaned against his friend, looking soberly at Trafford's rapt face, and wondering where all the man's grimness and gloominess had gone. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Dr. Ferguson, still cold and impassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain to overcome this infectious gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
In those days I was rarely troubled by low spirits, but at the present moment, I must own, that they partook considerably of the gloominess of the hour, and the scenery around. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
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