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Gloomily the delegates trooped down the green and yellow carpet of Dublin's Leinster House and into the dimly lit Dail Chamber.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gloomily, Sheean flew back to England and accompanied a British patrol to a North Atlantic rendezvous with a convoy of "the dirty little tramps that saved the world."

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Gloomily, many a chancellery and much of the world's press concluded that the three-weeks-old Anglo-American effort to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia was headed for failure.

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Gloomily, the Agriculture Department predicted that food prices for the year will jump by an oppressive 12%.

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Gloomily, I thought of Monmouth House: empty corridors, old gas-jets, the key turning in the lock of my room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt