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  • In 1950, Lloyd and Ben Hogan, it was Ben's first time back playing golf after suffering a near fatal car wreck outside Fort Worth, Texas, a year before that put him in traction for several months with doctors gloomingly predicting Bantam Ben would never hit another golf ball.

    The Big October Surprise The Daily Growler 2006

  • "And a lot of good it did us," said Bud gloomingly, "if there isn't any gold in there."

    The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Willard F. Baker

  • Mrs. Eccles went away, and Maurice got up and leant against the mantelpiece looking down gloomingly, into the fire.

    Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

  • At the slight sound, Evelyn, who had been sitting, chin in hand, gazing gloomingly out to sea, rose quickly and ran to the side of the bed.

    Lucile Triumphant Elizabeth M. Duffield

  • He felt himself excluded, and held himself gloomingly apart, talking hunting talk with

    Vixen, Volume II. 1875

  • That is what she was rather gloomingly contemplating, was she not?

    Cayman Net News Daily Headlines 2009

  • Perhaps -- in another three years -- "He shrugs his shoulders and walks gloomingly out.

    The Sunny Side 1919

  • "I was not wicked when I was young," she thought, as she stared gloomingly at the fire, "I was only thoughtless.

    Lady Audley's Secret 1875

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