Its eyes glowed faintly in the oppressive gloom.

There was a lessening of the darkness beyond the turn -not light, certainly, but a perceptible moderation of the oppressive gloom.

Of the moon and stars they saw no sign, no flash or pale gleam to breach the oppressive gloom.

Redbeaks and thrushes warbling in the small thickets were not enough to lighten the feel of oppressive gloom.

It was such a relief to escape the oppressive gloom of the house.

The flames from gigantic furnaces lit the oppressive and everlasting gloom.

He felt the oppressive gloom of this strange house.

And yet, as the oppressive gloom of the Abyss crept into her soul, Liriel wondered for the first time what the price of this power might be.

Then Av- shar's massive frame was silhouetted against a background lighter than the stairway's oppressive gloom.

Ann's face, lit up by the rosy glow of a match, materialized at the rim like a disembodied head hovering in the oppressive gloom.