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"Gloominess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... steady strokes of the twenty oarsmen, the city rose so broadly and so openly before us that we could see the whole of it distinctly with our naked eyes. And what at this nearer view seemed most impressive about it was its gloominess; that was due not less to the prison-like effect of its heavily built houses and its massive walls than to the dull blackness of the stone whereof these same were made. Nowhere was there sparkle, or glitter, or ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... had appeared to him by contrast when he returned. Even the thought of Hilda could not now make the recollection of his home a pleasant one, for Hilda herself was intimately connected, by her last words, with the whole impression of funereal gloominess from which the busy railway station furnished him ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford |
Words linked to "Gloominess" : bareness, desolation, sombreness, gloomy, ambiance, dread, uncheerfulness, ambience, cloud, somberness, atmosphere, sadness, apprehension, gloom, bleakness, melancholy, apprehensiveness, nakedness, glumness |
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