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bleakness
1. The light died as he was there staring into that bleakness, slowly at first, then more rapidly
2. Even with its ruin and bleakness, the marvelous tales originating from the province had always fascinated her
3. The afternoon would finish waning soon, and the fading sun would at last be overcome by the bleakness
4. The bleakness would permeate them both if he didn’t say something just as a distraction
5. There was a coldness, an unspeakable bleakness of the soul
6. could see no future, just bleakness, as much as the island dazzled like a jewel in the South Pacific it didn’t help his predicament
7. In his mind he could feel bleakness with a hidden strength as yet unchannelled and unsung, and a centre of such stillness as he had never known
8. He also remembered the bleakness of any possible future for them on that tortuous odyssey and smiled as they retraced their steps
9. He also remembered the bleakness of any possible future for them on that tortuous odyssey
10. A surge of bleakness through his gut brought to mind his companions: Isabella, with all her strange silences, Johan, and of course the boy
11. Buildings, but of what type and why they might be here, so far from anything but bleakness and the threat of death, he couldn’t tell
12. The bleakness of the weather seemed somehow appropriate given the depths to which the Academy had appeared to fall during the preceding term
13. (Lvoof) The place held a certain fascination for him as his mother and aunts talked very often of its glories in contrasting these to the bleakness of the African environment, which he loved so much
14. of the bleakness of the bunker
15. I always loved this first wild frolic of cold winds and catkins and hurriedly crimsoning pollards, of bleakness and promise, of roughness and sweetness--a blow on one cheek and a kiss on the other--before the spring has learned good manners, before it has left off being anything but a boisterous, naughty, charming _Backfisch_; but this year after having been ill so long it is more than love, it is passion
16. She tried to force herself to face the bleakness of the situation, but the ranks of undersea soldiers stretching before her seemed too grim to be real
17. Such a withdrawal of approval would have made any other pastor's life a thing of chill and bleakness; Herr Dremmel hardly observed it
18. And a certain bleakness about the room would soon go when Lucy's little things got more strewn about,--her books, and photographs, and pretty dressing-table silver
19. “It has hills and plains, rivers, animals, birds and reptiles and a sky that is the canvas for the master’s brushes, sometimes displaying the splendour of brightness and at other times the bleakness of torment
20. I shuddered slightly at the bleakness in his voice and reality of his words
21. I shuddered slightly at the bleakness in his voice and the truth of his words
22. But that portrait may be rich with color, filled with the texture of joy, or gray and ugly, shrouded in the bleakness of despair
23. The bleakness of his words tore through her
24. As the sky grew less gloomy; indeed, began to grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse; as if, when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded
25. Yet I did not heed the bleakness of the weather; I was better fitted by my conformation for the endurance of cold than heat
