The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye — a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I now went down a gentle declivity the delightful park of Windsor at the foot of which it looks so sombrous and gloomy that I could not help fancying it was some vast Gothic old temple. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sullen hills were flanked with light, and the valleys chined with shadow, and all the sombrous moors between awoke in furrowed anger. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Again the tinkling, a low laugh, and, turning sharply toward an alcove from whence the sounds came, the duke, through the half-light and trailing, sombrous shadows of its entrance, perceived a figure in a chair. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
On the one hand was the deserted, desolate plain over which lay a sullen, gathering mist; on the other, the sombrous obscurity of the wood. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
After rising, dressing, washing in cold diluted rose-water, and descending to the salle-à-manger, where I had laid my morning-meal the previous evening, I promenaded an hour the only one of these long sombrous tufted corridors in which there were not more than two dead, though behind the doors on either hand, all of which I had locked, I knew that they lay in plenty. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The afternoon was waning when he gazed again into the deep, sombrous rift of Greenstream: from where Gordon stood, on the heights, in the flooding sun, it appeared to be already evening below. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
Tess shook her head, brown eyes sombrous with suffering. ❋ Grace Miller White (1912)
One day, while she was kneeling with wet cheeks before her mother's coffin, and praying that the sombrous overhanging cloud might pass away, a letter arrived from Lord Granville offering her husband the Consulate of Trieste [FN#261] with a salary of (pounds) 700 a year. ❋ Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 (1906)
Where, mixed with graceful birch, the sombrous pine ❋ Unknown (1888)
Sir Walter Scott, with his universal geniality, read _Pelham_ in 1828 and "found it very interesting: the light is easy and gentlemanlike, the dark very grand and sombrous." ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
One day, while she was kneeling with wet cheeks before her mother's coffin, and praying that the sombrous overhanging cloud might pass away, a letter arrived from Lord Granville offering her husband the Consulate of Trieste with a salary of £700 a year. ❋ Thomas Wright (1897)
As she spoke she turned her strangely sombrous and liquid eyes to mine in such an appealing glance that I could not resist her magnetic power, strive as I would. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
This wood, far inland, thronged with sombrous trees -- ❋ Unknown (1882)
It is hoped the reader will excuse this indulgence of a lightness, if not puerility of recollections, which have often recurred through the successive years of a life, much indebted to them for their cheering brightness, when interspersed, as they often have been, through scenes of more grave and sombrous aspect, and connected at last with the present approximation to its close. ❋ Unknown (1860)
The gay feelings that spread through my bosom were overcast by a sombrous aspect, diffusing through them a pensiveness that sometimes almost oppressed me. ❋ Unknown (1860)
About three in the morning, by the sombrous light of a few fir torches, we started on our journey to the summit of the Piton. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Young, who is constantly contemning preferment in his writings, was all his life pining after it; and the conversation of the sombrous author of the "Night Thoughts" was of the most volatile kind, abounding with trivial puns. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)
It had but a single Venetian window, opening on a patch of turf not much larger than itself, and the aspect of the place was on the whole sombrous. ❋ Unknown (1824)
