By day there are few clear signs that this is a wartime capital, but a certain gloom descends with the early winter dusk.

My father came down to Chough Towers the day before the ball, and gloom descended on the house.

Before gloom could descend over him completely, another Aenar disappeared in a glimmer of light.

Black gloom descended instantly and I sneered aloud.

That's what my father used to say to me when teenage gloom descended - and he was usually right.

The gloom of twilight descended outside the cottage's window.

The century's lamp is growing dim; Saturnian gloom descends and it must die.

It seemed to Rowan that the gloom was descending again.

The sun had now disappeared; gloom descended from the sky.

A deep gloom descended on Fenella's back room.