Slashing down the nearest marksman, he delivered a fierce, challenging laugh that rose to a mighty, shivering crescendo, waking what seemed to be the echoes of gathered years from the vast gloom surrounding the Argyle Museum!

For this city was the throbbing heart of those vast glooms and linked stars and worlds across which he had come.

Soon afterward, the Empire fleet drew up just outside that vast, hazy gloom.

There was nothing out here but the vast gloom of darkness and the pinpoint stars.

He remembered growing up-alone-in the vast gloom of House Tavadon under the indifferent care of a succession of nursemaids and nannies-none of whom had been Idalia.

As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.

Moon Horse shied and fidgeted at the smell of the dragon and of the old blood within the vast gloom of the Market Hall.

Save for these three human beings, the open space on the hill-side was a solitude, set in a vast gloom of forest.

Our poor little candle flame was almost overcome by the vast gloom of the chamber.

The early works were both conventional and, according to the critic Charles Johnston, "utterly unIrish", seeming to come out of a "vast murmurous gloom of dreams".