In the gathering gloom, she tried to figure out what it was.

She bent close in the gathering gloom and opened her fingers for a look.

Looking out the window at the gathering gloom, she also began to worry about David.

It was hard to make out shapes in the gathering gloom.

He took a last look at the valley in the gathering gloom.

He could not guess their number in the gathering gloom, but it looked to him like a great army, many thousands strong.

The two boys lay in the gathering gloom, watching the river and thinking of all that they had seen.

He looked around at them questioningly in the gathering gloom.

He stared into the gathering gloom, trying to make it out.

He could not guess their number in the gathering gloom.