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    1. replaced by the cheerless half-light of a dying sun


    2. Another cheerless day was coming to an end


    3. But the place was almost deserted and the atmosphere was cheerless


    4. She smiled, but it was a cheerless smile


    5. 4 The next morning Jesus joined his friends at breakfast, but they were a cheerless group


    6. Its fair hope withering in the cheerless shade,


    7. "If everyone was doing what they really loved, the way they wanted, whenever they wanted, they wouldn't be screaming with frustration in life, living lives of 'quiet desperation' as some cheerless but astute git once put it


    8. The problems of Christianity may seem great and deep; but the problems of unbelief are greater and deeper still And not the least problem is the impossibility of answering the question, "Shall I find elsewhere any real peace or rest of soul, if I leave Christ? To whom shall I go? Where in all the world shall I find a more excellent way than that of faith in Jesus? Where is the personal friend who will supply His place?" Give me a thousand times rather the old Evangelical Christianity, with all its difficult facts and doctrines, the incarnation, the atonement, the resurrection, the ascension, than the cold, barren creed of the Socinian or the Deist, or the cheerless negations of modern unbelief


    9. Do you think that a person with this cheerless prospect can pity you down there in the sun? I trace your bright line of March on the map and merely feel envy


    10. He came in last, and the moment he appeared words froze, smiles vanished, eyes fell, and Papa's pipin alone continued to be heard in the cheerless air

    11. afford only a cheerless room where her hands were often too cold to practice


    12. To break the gloomy silence, the painful thoughts and my cheerless mien


    13. Well, as well as one can in a small, cheerless Egyptian village


    14. of students in the cafeteria, moving past the cheerless servers in single file and accepting their rations of eggs and sausage


    15. It had been like this since the beginning of time itself: a windowless white cube flooded with a dead fluorescent light that percolated into every crevice of his being, Truscott with his cheerless grins and endless questions, with occa¬sional spurts of bile from Meadows, interjected like venomous punctuation – and all under the inscrutable gaze of the guardian of the door


    16. The whole area was drab and cheerless, decorated with the ugliest color scheme Crystal had ever been nauseated by


    17. A grey- green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting-paper


    18. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before! But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope


    19. I cannot remember the time when I did not love Eliza; and my affection for her, as we grew up, was such, as perhaps, judging from my present forlorn and cheerless gravity, you might think me incapable of having ever felt


    20. Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early

    21. It was not in vain that they passed their cheerless lives bending with aching shoulders over the thankless work that barely brought them bread


    22. `I might reasonably ask you, "What's done with them or what you propose to do with them now?" There are many men and women whose lives are so full of toil and sorrow and the misery caused by abject poverty, who are so shut out from all that makes life worth living, that the time they spend in the public house is the only ray of sunshine in their cheerless lives


    23. The sky presented an unbroken expanse of dull grey and a keen north wind swept through the cheerless streets


    24. A little further on, at the opposite corner, were the premises of the Monopole Provision Stores, where brilliant lights were just being extinguished, for they, like most of the other shops, were closing their premises for the night, and the streets took on a more cheerless air as one after another their lights disappeared


    25. the other Mark officer, and had thought to himself that never in his life had he seen such a cheerless, dispirited lot of rabbits


    26. Konstantin Levin sighed, looking meanwhile about the cheerless and dirty room


    27. Returning later, he passed them again in the same field, progressing just as slowly, and as regardless of the hour and of the cheerless night as before


    28. But now Lydgate came in; the book was closed before he reached Rosamond's corner, and as he took his seat with easy confidence on the other side of her, young Plymdale's jaw fell like a barometer towards the cheerless side of change


    29. It was a long and cheerless road, but now that the goblins were crushed, it seemed safer to them than the dreadful pathways under the trees


    30. The hobbits were glad to leave the cheerless lands and the perilous

    31. they were all soaked, and their camp was cheerless, for they could not get


    32. In the late afternoon they were roused by the watch, and took their chief meal: cold and cheerless as a rule, for they could seldom risk the lighting of a fire


    33. Inside it was damp and cheerless, and supper was served on a long bare table that had not been scrubbed for weeks


    34. Like an advance scout, Hudson checked and rechecked the squat, cheerless brick buildings as he drove closer to the meeting place


    35. "Imagine you're an American writer, looking for material, far from home, wife, children, friends, in a cheerless hotel, on a bad gray day with naught but broken glass, chewed tobacco, and sooty snow in your soul


    36. A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitude; and I was glad, when finally ushered into


    37. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before! But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby’s constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne’s situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope


    38. They each led into an empty room, dusty and cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through them


    39. He had described its cheerless look, and the bearing of the child, who seemed as if she was not of the class of those who were treated as drudges and servants


    40. However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us

    41. " I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense


    42. A thought suddenly occurred to me, that if all the street lamps had been put out it would have been less cheerless, that the gas made one's heart sadder because it lighted it all up


    43. To the howling of the wind was added another kind of cheerless monotonous roar


    44. As there was no soothing, rest-giving darkness that night, but instead there was a hazy, cheerless, unnatural light, so even was there no rest-giving darkness—ignorance—for Nekhludoff's soul


    45. Petersburg, and though this light seemed to him hazy, cheerless and unnatural, he could not help seeing that which the light revealed to him, and he felt at the same time both joy and alarm


    46. "Is that you I just now saw, my good Socrates? Is that you passing by me in this cheerless place? I have already spent many hours here without knowing when day will relieve the night


    47. "O Socrates, I marvel at you—how dare you wander about in this cheerless gloom? I—I sit here overcome with grief and bemoan the joys of a fleeting life


    48. Sad even to trees their cheerless fate in solitude if grown,


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    Sinónimos para "cheerless"

    cheerless depressing uncheerful dismal forlorn drab comfortless barren cold