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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gloomy
 
  Gloomy as a graveyard on a wet Sunday.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Gloomy as a hobgoblin.
            —Charles Dickens		  2
  Gloomy outside, like a rusty chest.
            —John Dryden		  3
  Gloomy as night.
            —Homer (Pope)		  4
  Begloomed like seas empurpled under cloud.
            —Robert Noel		  5
  Gloomy and dogged like a dangerous maniac in his cell.
            —Charles Reade		  6
  Gloomy, like a gathered tempest.
            —Isaac Watts		  7
 
 
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