How To Use Loom In A Sentence
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Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
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It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
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The flowers in bloom upon the graves at the Cemetery were shot away.
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Egg-laying adults are especially active during bloom, a time period when insecticides should not be applied.
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An early season bloomer, about 18-inches tall, its subtle fragrance has been described as elegant, sweet, and tartly fruity.
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Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
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The sweet peas just now started blooming, that is so late, even though they were planted mid February.
Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden
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This montbretia cultivar is an Alan Bloom hybrid Crocosmia x Curtonus which has flowers and foliage that are similar to gladiolus.
Winter Plant Portrait-Croscosmias « Fairegarden
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In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
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The looming discal peril demands tough action by Robert Chapman on Sunday, Jul 2, 2006 at 12: 03: 29 PM
Is NJ Gov. Jon Corzine Running for President?
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Another feature of interest is the rarity with which axillary prolification is found in irregular gamopetalous blooms.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
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An eye-catching floral tribute to England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson helped Doncaster to shine in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition.
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We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
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After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
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His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
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He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress.
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Its spectral presence looms over the city, its pointed top a needle to the bubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
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If you have a partially shaded spot, use Ramonda myconi for its crinkled foliage and lavender-blue blooms in late spring.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several years ago a purchased plant threw out some seeds and we had one or two of this striking biennial with their felty leaves and vertical stalk of blooms for a short time.
UT Blooms Days June 2008 « Fairegarden
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There are now believed to be only 12 places in the country where the fritillary thrives, and Cricklade North Meadow has the highest proportion of the blooms.
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These small, bushy plants literally bloom nonstop with an extraordinary abundance of petite flowers.
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Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process.
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We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still.
The Womans Advocate
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Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
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The complexity and number of processes for treating silk goods may be realized when we know that a piece-dyed or printed fabric is handled its entire length between fifty and one hundred times after it comes from the loom, sometimes even more.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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Rare cinquefoil bloom just inches from the path and marsh grasses waft in the breeze.
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To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me.
1997: What I Wanted
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So why all the doom and gloom?
The Sun
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You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chapter 1
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Pigeon peas and sorrel are planted so that they bloom at Christmas time.
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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. Christina G Rossetti
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Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
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You can call a bloomin 'copper if you want to," the little man said.
Fortitude
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Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
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Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
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Me and two more fellows put something over five hundred looms on what they call dollies, they just shut down about eight a day and move eight a day and move them down in the new part and put them to running.
Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, July 1977. Interview H-0041. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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For early blooming shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum, prune them as soon as blooms have passed.
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WC Fields looms round and grumpy, his bulbous nose glowing, piggy eyes shut from lack of sleep.
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She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group that had been holding service behind the nursing home got the buildings and some church funds, while the ultraconservatives got some cash and church heirlooms.
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Il volto sciolto ed i pensieri stretti," declared Giuseppe with gloom.
The Red Redmaynes
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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Will happen one day, you can come back, bloomy spring.
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Lift weights with your brain, Harry, and it will bloom into something worthy of Mr. Atlas himself.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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A spokesman for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party called the cabinet shuffle "a futile exercise which inspires none and in no way dispels the gloom shadowing" Mr. Singh's government, according to Press Trust of India.
India Fires Environment Minister Who Held Up Projects
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Prospects for the company remain good, as an inevitable tightening of the public purse looms.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel.
Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
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Instead of doom and gloom, we need to look at it as an opportunity to turn the season around.
Times, Sunday Times
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This might not seem like a ringing endorsement of war, but it contrasted with his gloomy assessments in the previous year.
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We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
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The roadsides sparkled with coreopsis, crimson clover, vetch, spring beauties, and other gem-like blooms.
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But a mild winter and plenty of rain means that this year the flowers have come into bloom a month early.
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The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Love unexpressed is sacred. It'shines like gems in the gloom the hidden heart.
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Our nepeta is blooming too, funny how fast the flowering catches up from north to south.
Bee Speed « Fairegarden
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The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
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I don't particularly care whether a stock quote is 20 minutes late, but if I wanted current information I'd probably go to Bloomberg.
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There are flowers everywhere: on a pair of sandals, on a box of tissues, in vivid bloom on the top of a lavatory.
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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
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A bigger threat may loom on the media landscape.
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As a psychologist, Bloom had studied what in the 1970s was considered not just sexual deviance, but mental imbalance.
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Horae (Hours), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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Instead of taking joy in the profusion of spring blooms, Jane struggles to take a breath.
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Grass grew, foliage returned to trees' canopies, and blooming flowers proliferated.
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Pope loomed in the north even before McClellan began to retire in the east.
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The houses of our childhood loom large in our imaginings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
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The world's largest chip maker gave a gloomy forecast for the first quarter.
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I saw it over and over again, blooming bravely in dooryard gardens despite the sizzling heat on the rough, wind-swept prairies.
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Elsewhere the drinkers sat in darkness, an umbrous gloom through which the orange flame of an occasional candle started.
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Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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For those who like the darkest of red roses, Raven is always abloom with small, velvety red roses that grow in large clusters.
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Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, the possibility for error forever looms, never to be completely staunched.
Four Lost Measures Found
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Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well.
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But, they add, the feminization of medicine is helping to lower physician salaries, encourage part-time doctoring and exacerbate a looming shortage of physicians.
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But there are still the orchids, and more are in bud in the greenhouse to help us get through the bloomless times.
Searching For December Bloom Day « Fairegarden
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It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
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Although not hugely valuable, they were both treasured family heirlooms.
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This afternoon, whilst I was chatting to an elderly couple who wanted directions to somewhere, my eyes wandered to the car park verge and espied a single solitary daffodil blooming in the late winter sun.
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People often wonder what to do when tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, Easter lilies, and other spring-blooming bulb flowers have faded.
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We were surprised today to learn that Mayor Bloomberg dismissed his hand-picked Schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, after 97 infelicitous days as chief of New York City's school system.
Henry J. Stern: Black Thursday
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A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle.
Country diary: New Forest
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In his letters, as in conversation, he offers himself no sanctuary, and the picture we are left to gather is an exaggeration of the facts: cold, hard, captious, rarely affectionate, often gloomy.
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We had our gold medal for the day and the print deadline was looming.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a gloomier note, employment continued to decline and car sales remained depressed.
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Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon.
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That music is the creative force at work, the whirr of the loom of the Eternal; it is the golden-snooded Muses at song.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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And they will want to win to banish match-fixing gloom.
The Sun
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Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
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What a wonderful place the city had been to leave, as I looked down at it through the free and lucid air, the plane pitching in the thunderstorm which loomed as usual over Kenscoff.
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Bloomsbury House was Hailey's finest achievement.
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If the catkins remain dormant when the pistillate flowers bloom, they have been winterkilled, and the bent down reserves have to be called up.
Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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I followed his advice - and now, ten years later that hellebore is a fine, strong plant that is blooming as I type this.
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He is the soil that enables the flowers around him to grow and bloom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus the word "nevermore," a gloomy, terrible word, comes into his mind, and he proceeds to brood over it.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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For early blooming shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum, prune them as soon as blooms have passed.
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Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
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In the weaving village, building after building was filled with wooden looms used to make silk and lotus cloth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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Now rare earth elements with exotic names such as europium and tantalum hold the key to hybrid cars, wind turbines and crystal-clear TV displays - that is, if a looming supply shortage doesn't stop innovation in its tracks.
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
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His house had been burgled, windows smashed, doors broken and family heirlooms stolen.
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And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
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Clouds loomed ominously over the beach on Saturday, but the rain stayed away.
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Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier.
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Countries such as Germany, Finland and the Netherlands may find it difficult to defend funnelling more cash to Athens over the coming months with the threat of the referendum looming.
Greek government teeters on brink of collapse in wake of referendum plan
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Cathy had brought over a large red begonia in bloom and some homemade cookies.
The Memory Palace
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Cherry blossoms were in full bloom while orchards started producing the fine small red fruits.
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The March Bank is at its peak with millions of scilla and glory-of-the-snow in full bloom.
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Italian turned out to be silly, while the Welshman recalled the gloomier imaginings of the BRONTËS, and in the event came by an appropriately violent end.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916
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It was espaliered carefully back onto its old trellis and coaxed into bloom.
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He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse.
The Wife
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The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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_Sida coccinea_ occurred frequently, with a _psoralea_ near _psoralea floribunda_, and a number of plants not hitherto met, just verging into bloom.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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Plasma gastrin concentration was measured by radioimmunoassay with antibody G179 provided by Professor Bloom.
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British strawberries are at their best in September and our heirloom tomatoes are still great in October.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, Moliere was such a late bloomer as a writer that we don't even know what questions to ask.
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Galanthus reginae-olgae is a reliable early flowerer, producing its faintly scented blooms as early as October.
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This lifts the ambience of a room which might otherwise be gloomy during the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Run before it gets you with its diaper bag smell, pustules of mold, and ambiguous bloomy rind!
Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop
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That's wot you are, a bloomin 'toff! the Virgin howled back as he shut the door.
CHAPTER 20
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When there is nothing in bloom, she can learn to use her imagination with boughs and branches and clippings from hedges, grasses, and even weeds, to make friendly little bouquets.
Learning to Be a Home Keeper
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Sacramento August 6, 2010 - Due to its potential health risks, federal, state, and tribal agencies are urging swimmers, boaters and recreational users to avoid contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) now blooming in Copco and Iron Gate
YubaNet.com
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The economics of shuttleless looms will be considered in chapter IV.
Chapter 6
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In the perennial border, a shrublet is the plant that's always in bloom, providing a wonderful contrast with peonies in the spring, delphinium in midsummer, and phlox in late summer.
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He was sunk in deep gloom at the prospect of being alone.
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With a federal election looming, a new organisation says they are tackling the heart of youth voter apathy.
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He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
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Practically without exception, however, all of them bloom very early in the spring and have milky-white flowers.
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This isn't the first time Medicare has been given a gloomy prognosis.
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It is in the salon that the over-refinement called preciosity budded and bloomed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Ross watched her deteriorate in gloomy and unreproving silence.
The Second Generation
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Perhaps even the gloomy cloud hanging over the manufacturing industry has a silver lining.
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The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
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Lots of red clover and bird's-foot clover in the fields, drifts of white daisy faces, and the sumac is almost ready to bloom.
Sunday roadkill report
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Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the climates where they perennially bloom.
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Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Gardeners also use crotons, hardy bushes with a million variegations in purple, yellow and green, heliconias, for their slender stems and banana-like leaves, and also flowering trees (which often bloom later in the year).
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Red and pink roses on the campus were in full bloom.
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Other members of marine ecosystems have also died as a result of red-tide blooms.
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You'll get a hankering to come back every year in early May when the redbuds open and the dogwoods bloom.
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In fact, many people eagerly follow the weather forecasts whenever bad weather is looming.
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The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
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The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
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Japan's largest earthquake on record may have knocked the planet 3.9 inches off its axis as one crustal plate slid beneath another, Eric Fielding, a principal scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told Bloomberg news agency.
Report: High chance of magnitude-7 or higher quake in Japan in coming days
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Barbara looked increasingly downcast as defeat loomed.
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However I had set myself a task to at least try to remove the old writer's block which had been looming over me.
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There are many good reasons to incorporate more heirloom varieties into your gardening.
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The tulips bloomed a brilliant symphony of colours and rivalled the loveliness of the birds who frequented the yard.
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Blooms appeared in long clusters of densely packed white flowers.
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The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.
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In midlife, I find myself in a land where, for the first time, I do not recognize the plants: what is edible, what blooms when, what sets seed when.
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Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
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Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.
Ulysses
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In other years with an early bloom date, many fruitlets reach 1-inch diameters by early May.
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The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
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Yet rhodos have grown in the wilds of the world for thousands of years without chemical fertilizer, bloom booster, weevil killer, soil acidifier or any other manner of nasty toxin.
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With Mars looming large in the morning sky, astronomers are capitalizing on a great chance to study our neighbouring planet.
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In colder areas, protect the container over winter, the agapanthus will return to bloom even more next year.
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A rare ground orchid Disperis neilgherrensis has blooms that are striking beyond belief.
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The official listening figures appear to tell a much gloomier story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most important post-war innovation was the shuttleless loom which permitted major increases in the speed of weaving and elimination of shuttle-changing - in other words, an integration of the process.
Chapter 6
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While poinsettia is the most popular, a Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift and easy to care for once the flowers have faded.
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The women in her Last Supper prints are grouped in twos and threes, dressed in reds and blues, and emerge from a gloomy background in a way that echoes the famous Renaissance fresco.
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Get close enough to see its pale and dusty blue bloom and you get a lovely whiff of the Mediterranean.
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It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye.
Sons and Lovers
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A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker.
Stay Well This Winter
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Every four years, when Michael Bloomberg runs for Mayor, the Big Apple is transformed into a winter wonderland where it's Christmas all year round — at least for the consultants, ad salespeople, canvassers, caterers, and hangers-on whom the mayor employs.
Quantitative electioneering
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I looked at the camellia with its fat pink blooms and at the scarlet flowers of the Japanese quince.
RESCUING ROSE
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There were gloomy predictions that the weather would deter buyers, but on the day a lengthy queue had formed an hour before the doors opened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The looming enforced removal of Mr Ozberk, 30, has the makings of a diplomatic incident.
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His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
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The mountains looming far to my right, the West Alps told me we had crossed into France.
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Reform is inevitable and the coalition rightly aims to address the looming problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bloomberg News NLRB acting general counsel Lafe Solomon, second left, shown at a House oversight committee hearing in North Charleston, S.C., Friday.
Labor Board Defends Boeing Actions
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After that time the sea looms into view as the river opens out.
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Lacy elder flowers bloomed in the meadows.
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Were there two metrical writers on alchymy of the name Bloomfield, temp.
Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849
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Teased by the gloom, I peered through its sandwich of heaped rings, trinkets and protective glass.
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Annuals, such as impatiens, coleus and begonias that are still growing strong can be encouraged to continue blooming with regular watering and feeding.
Local News from Tuscaloosa News
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Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
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It is not all doom and gloom.
The Sun
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Putting Bloom through his never-ending role-playing may be mis-guided but beyond the showmanship is a simple understanding that his brother is his number one concern.
Mark enjoys the company of THE BROTHERS BLOOM! | Obsessed With Film
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Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
Jill the Reckless
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Costmary, Alecost, Bible-leaf, Sweet Mary, or Mint Geranium is a sprawling, hardy perennial that reaches 3 feet in height when in bloom.
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Such quirky little blooms would be lost in the floral abundance of spring or summer, but in midwinter they are dazzling, standing out against snowy backdrops or the dark needles of evergreens.
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I belong to a generation of kinless childhoods, where we grew up without grandparents, numerous uncles, aunts, cousins and relatives who had perished, yet whose silent presence loomed in the background.
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impenetrable gloom
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Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Shadbush/Juneberry blooming, Canada mayflower leaves up but no flowers yet.
Mixed bag
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Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
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The pound is in the doldrums and economic forecasts are gloomy.
Times, Sunday Times
