My blondish, fair-skinned and blue-eyed genes were adapted for the midnight sun and the gloomy winters above some fjord, so maybe that's home.

The gloomy winter and the bright spring have provided the proof.

"Poor, poor human nature," she wrote once during that long, gloomy winter.

Their departure to Russia anticipates the end of the gloomy Danubian winter.

The car plunged down the narrow defile in the gathering dusk of a gloomy winter afternoon.

A winter festival, Kuviasungnerk, was begun to help undergraduates through Chicago's gloomy winters.

Another gloomy winter was coming.

The Kaufmanns had begun traveling to Southern California to escape Pittsburgh's gloomy winters; and the dry heat also helped Kaufmann's back.

"I put myself under pressure to remain slim because I still model my own bikinis but it is much more difficult to feel motivated in the gloomy winter," she said.

These defeatist notions came to a head one gloomy winter evening as she trudged home from the ferry.