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After rubbing the back of it down with a glue stick, she smoothed the gloomy-looking portrait onto its poster board and set it aside to dry.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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After rubbing the back of it down with a glue stick, she smoothed the gloomy-looking portrait onto its poster board and set it aside to dry.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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After rubbing the back of it down with a glue stick, she smoothed the gloomy-looking portrait onto its poster board and set it aside to dry.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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I urge them to develop mischievous and inventive ways to convince these gloomy-looking people that whatever they are teaching at that moment, no matter how delectably subversive it may be, is, in fact, directly geared to one of those little chunks of amputated knowledge, known as
Jonathan Kozol: Why I am Fasting: An Explanation to My Friends 2008
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This meal we shared with some handsome, gloomy-looking, bonneted Highlanders, and some large ugly dogs.
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They all three then saw the face of a dark, gloomy-looking man, with black hair and flaming eyes.
La Grand Breteche 2007
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They all three then saw the face of a dark, gloomy-looking man, with black hair and flaming eyes.
La Grand Breteche 2007
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There are multitudes of casts and fossils, and stuffed beasts and birds, and monsters, and a steam-engine modelled in glass, which works beautifully; but all these things are to hide the real character of this institution, and appeared to be passed unnoticed by a large number of respectable-looking people who were thronging into a theatre at the back — a very gloomy-looking edifice, with high pews.
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The very furniture, the red paper with yellow patterns in the drawing-room, the numerous rush-bottomed chairs in the dining-room, the faded wool-work cushions, embroidered with figures of girls and dogs, on the sofa, the branching lamps, and the gloomy-looking portraits on the walls — everything inspired an involuntary melancholy, about everything there clung a sense of chill and flatness.
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On the right-hand side of the road was a vegetable-garden cleared of its crops and gloomy-looking, with here and there sunflowers standing up in it with hanging heads already black.
The Wife 2004
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