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Meanings of gloomy silence in English

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Usage of gloomy silence in English
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Cosette probably expected some explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence.
Les Misérables
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The men from the Porcupine could not quite understand the gloomy silence.
The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills
3
The two friends long gazed at each other in a gloomy silence.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
4
Upon hearing this the chiefs sat for a time in gloomy silence.
The Story of Troy
5
Gandelu resumed his seat, and remained in gloomy silence for some time.
The Champdoce Mystery
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But for the boy, the gloomy silence would seldom have been broken.
The Unclassed
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A gloomy silence fell on them all after the greetings were over.
Wayside Courtships
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Newman's account of what had transpired was listened to in gloomy silence.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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My hair stood on end, and I relapsed into a gloomy silence.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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Where such opinions were not openly expressed there was a gloomy silence.
The Eternal City
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Owen paused and a gloomy silence followed, but suddenly Crass brightened up.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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She walked beside him, making no attempt to break his gloomy silence.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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Dan relapsed into gloomy silence, and they had a very uncomfortable meal.
The Iron Trail
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The bar clanked into place, leaving her alone in the gloomy silence.
Bulletproof bride
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The seaman was pacing the floor in stern and gloomy silence.
Edward Barnett, a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to...
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Suddenly the noise of drums broke upon the gloomy silence of the crowd.
Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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