Word: gloom
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...Like most of us, he had weaknesses which brought him unhappiness. Most of his friends, however, will remember that with him life was usually gay, and he would not want gloom to surround his memory...
...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...
...bundle of newspapers, hurried to his hotel to comb them word by word. After a sojourn in London he was catching up on five months' back reading of his own paper, the weekly Philippines Free Press. Presently, reading one of his dispatches from London, he was engulfed by gloom because his paper had gone to pot-he had found a typographical error...
...Many butterflies have gleaming spots painted on their wings, which "by their general deceptive resemblance to the eye of some large vertebrate such as an owl . . . would be mistaken in the gloom by insectivorous birds and mammals for something on no account to be meddled with...
...sullen summer days, when rain falls and clouds gloom over Long Island, the Army's Mitchel Field is a hive of brown, earthbound pursuit planes. With their tails low, their tapered fuselages and wings tilting toward the grey sky, the P-40s on the grass and the paved tarmac look unnaturally still; they seem always to be straining for release and flight...