Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman (volume 2, page 170)
Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
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Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
puhekieltä To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
Walpole
A bow window (..)gloomed with limes.
Tennyson
A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
puhekieltä To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
What sorrows gloomed that parting day.
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.