1 It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
2 It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom.
3 She stood looking at us without a stir and like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose.
4 Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more somber every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.
5 The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
6 And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
7 Only in the very last moment, as though in response to some sign we could not see, to some whisper we could not hear, he frowned heavily, and that frown gave to his black death-mask an inconceivably somber, brooding, and menacing expression.
8 And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.