gloomily

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"I never meant to get out of it," replied Nekhludoff, gloomily, and in a tone of severity.

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  1. In a gloomy manner; dimly; darkly; dismally; sullenly. But chief to heedless flies the window proves A constant death; where, gloomily retir'd, The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce. Thomson, Summer, l. 268.

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  • We greeted her gloomily, and she was as startled as ourselves at the news of the President's escape; at the same time I thought I detected an undercurrent of relief, not unnatural if we recollect her personal relations with the deposed ruler. —  A Man of Mark
  • You can understand what it is, can't you I can imagine it," said Mr. Silk, gloomily, and he flushed crimson as the possibilities suggested by the remark occurred to him I've been thinking it over for some time," resumed Mr. Kybird; "twisting it and turning it all ways, and the only thing I can see for it is for you to be married on the strict q.t. —  At Sunwich Port, Complete
  • "It is well," he answered, gloomily -- "the best that can be done; and —  Cast Adrift
  • At these words the Sheriff of Nottingham looked down gloomily, and the —  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Cesarini listened gloomily, and was about to answer, when -- —  Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
 

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