The interior of this ring was black, black as the gloom of the outer night.

His death cast a gloom over our household, and it was a long time before it was entirely dispelled.

During these weeks she gave no sign of improvement mentally, though she constantly gained strength otherwise, and impressed everybody with the clear light in her eye and the absence of everything suggestive of gloom in her expression and language.

But in the heart of the Duchess Helen, Spring was come, and all things spake to her of coming joys undreamed till now as she hasted on, flitting through the pallid moonbeams that, falling athwart rugged hole and far-flung branch, splashed the gloom with radiant light.

Methinks it is but the darkness in our minds that bringeth gloom to the world.

A transient shade of gloom on the Brahmin's countenance was soon succeeded by a piercing, inquisitive glance cast on the diviner.

It was very dark upon the forest road, where trees loomed gigantic against the pitchy gloom wherein dim-seen branches creaked and swayed, and leaves rustled faint and fitful in the stealthy night-wind; and through the gloom at the head of his silent company Beltane rode in frowning thought, his humour blacker than the night.

No doubt they were waiting in the secluded gloom for the other men apparently necessary for that secret conference.

But while he was thus trying to pierce the gloom around him, he heard a sound that thrilled him through and throughthe sound of a human voice calling.

He sat there as still as a rooted tree; he bulked big through the gloom like a rugged boulder; he was a part of this wild land, as indifferent, as cold, as merciless.

The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole-day-leaves, when, by some strange arrangement, we were turned out, for the live-long day, upon our own hands, whether we had friends to go to, or none.

And from the gloom behind him a hoarse roar went up: "Arise! ArisePentavalon!"

Her face expressed patient resignation now, as they walked under the close-matted foliage of the beech-trees, which made a pleasant, sun-flecked gloom about them.

Some light came in through holes, although there was impenetrable gloom beyond the door by which the men had gone.

'Twas a beautiful sight as the craft came sweeping on before the full weight of the wind, out from that background of gloom into the yellow glare of the torch, circling widely so as to more safely approach the bark's quarter.

But the gloom under the heavy timber increased.

" You wished to teach him that lesson, you told Him as much, you know, in this very room, 'Twas about this hour, for the twilight gloom As now, was enwrapping you, fold on fold.

The little star of self-love twinkles, that is to encourage you through deeper glooms than this.

Besides this a certain amount of light managed to come through that small window of the lodge, and help to partially dispel the gloom without.

Ponderous lorries with giant horses rolled out of the gloom between stacks of goods; wet cattle were entangled in the press of traffic, and Barbara was relieved when Lister pushed back a sliding door.

Johnnie" she broke off and stood peering hesitatingly into the gloom toward the girl's shining face.

He lay back, staring up into the gloom above him.

" Teddy felt a little blue when he said good-bye to his father, but Kalitan quickly dispelled his gloom by a great piece of news.

As she approached the covered bridge, the moon was shining brightly at the entrance, making the gloom within profounder.

Of a sudden, from the gloom beside the way rose a woman's scream, and thereafter a great and fierce roar; and presently came Walkyn with his torch and divers of his men, dragging a woman in their midst, and lo!