There were fine reception-rooms and a pretty garden, but the living-rooms were small, not numerous, and decidedly gloomy.

" "If the suicide idea is to be abandoned," said Kelson, speaking with an unusually gloomy, preoccupied air, "the police have an uncommonly difficult and delicate task before them.

Its interior wears a deeply dejected, nay a profoundly gloomy aspect.

" "But it's horribly gloomy, just as mother said."

Thus Carlyle became continually gloomier as his fit of the blues deepened into Prussian blues; nor can there be any wonder.

Altogether six notes passed during the morning, and Mr. Chalk, who hazarded a fair notion as to their contents, became correspondingly gloomy.

The bushes were matted, and the trees overhung us, so that the place was disagreeably gloomy; though not dark enough to hide from me the fact that many of the trees were fruit trees, and that, here and there, one could trace indistinctly, signs of a long departed cultivation.

She stood looking down at her caller, good-humoredly and continued: "I suppose it is my fault, but you have a dreadfully gloomy expression.

Far below the horizon nature is elaborate, full of fancies,mazy watercourses, delicate dingles, fantastically gloomy ravines, misshapen woods, gibbering with diablerie; but here how simple, how great, how good she is!

But, dang it, we munnot knock under To th' freawn o' misfortin to soon; Though Robin looks fearfully gloomy, An' Jamie keeps starin' at th' greawnd, An' thinkin' o'th table 'at's empty, An' th' little things yammerin' reawnd.

London at first sight is appallingly gloomy is the evening, and foreigners hardly care to leave their hotels.

A ravine, sinking rapidly, becomes a deep, dark, and gloomy gully, at the end of which is a wall of rock.

" Being assured of welcome on all occasions, he of the long countenance went clanging down the iron shutter again; and the lonely law-student, burying his face in his hands, prayed Providence to forgive him for having esteemed his own lot so hopelessly gloomy when there were Comic Paper men on the very next floor.

Pascal, so gay, so kind, now became insupportably gloomy and harsh.

The savage luck which dogs Kirkwood and Jane, and the worse than savagethe inhumancruelty of Clem Peckover, who has been compared to the Madame Cibot of Balzac's Le Cousin Pons, render the book an intensely gloomy one; it ends on a note of poignant misery, which gives a certain colour for once to the oft-repeated charge of morbidity and pessimism.

"This is a miserably gloomy road," I ventured desperately.

But while a glamour of mystery and awe has always clung to Hallowe'en in the minds of the Celtic peasantry, the popular celebration of the festival has been, at least in modern times, by no means of a prevailingly gloomy cast; on the contrary it has been attended by picturesque features and merry pastimes, which rendered it the gayest night of all the year.

The 7th was a remarkably gloomy day, signalized by a very unusual fall in the barometer between 8 A.M., and 2 P.M., from 30.14 to 30.00, when the breeze which had been fresh in the morning, increased to a gale with squalls.

The tenor of nearly everything that she said was singularly gloomy.

"These rooms are, of course, very interesting, but gloomyhorribly gloomy, Paul.

I liked Rolfhe was appealingly gloomy.

Err shall they not, who resolute explore Times gloomy backward with judicious eyes; And, scanning right the practices of yore, Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise.

My disappointment was consequently less than theirs when we drove up to as gloomy a hostelry as I have ever beheld, with the blue-black forest smoking wet behind it, to find that here also the foul weather had brought the season to a premature and sudden end, literally emptying this particular hotel.