Take another pledge, old man, said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted up like fire-flies in the
gloom, -- Hemp only can kill thee.
334-346) Now when all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer heard this, he sent the Slayer of Argus whose wand is of gold to Erebus, so that having won over Hades with soft words, he might lead forth chaste Persephone to the light from the misty
gloom to join the gods, and that her mother might see her with her eyes and cease from her anger.
She floated again from out the light and into the
gloom (which deepened momently) and again her shadow fell from her into the ebony water, and became absorbed into its blackness.
The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all
gloom and darkness...."
Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper
gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding.
O light, no light to me, but mine erewhile, Now the last time I feel thee palpable, For I am drawing near the final
gloom Of Hades.
And, as if the
gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
The wind whistled, the sea roared, the
gloom was only broken by the ghastly glare of the foaming breakers, the minds of the seamen were full of dreary apprehensions, and some of them fancied they heard the cries of their lost comrades mingling with the uproar of the elements.
He thought he heard a cluster of skeletons at Montfauçon clashing together in the
gloom.
My thoughts had been long wandering from the volume before me to the
gloom and desolation of the neighboring city.
The result of the long strain was seen later in the afternoon, when he sat locked within the turret-room before the still baffling trunk, distrait, listless and yet agitated, sunk in a settled
gloom. As the dusk was falling he told the steward to send him two men, strong ones.
Went shuffling through the
gloom: And I trembled as I groped my way