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adjective

Bleak adj.

Without color; pale; pallid. (Obs.) "When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead."

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. "Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear." "At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach."

Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

noun

Bleak n. (Written also blick) (Zool.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls.

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"Bleak" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mexico. She searched the horizon for mountains, but there did not appear to be any. She received a vague, slow-dawning impression that was hard to define. She did not like the country, though that was not the impression which eluded her. Bare gray flats, low scrub-fringed hills, bleak cliffs, jumble after jumble of rocks, and occasionally a long vista down a valley, somehow compelling—these passed before her gaze until she tired of them. Where was the West Glenn had written about? One thing seemed ...

— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey

... Hall looked chilly and bleak, even though patches of sunlight were fighting the usual gloom. On the hearth-stone lay a scrap of white, doubtless Ricky's handkerchief. Val flung open the front door and stepped out on the terrace, drawing deep lungfuls ...

— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

... our worst weather, as we say,—worst for our health or convenience we must always mean. Think of a bleak and sleety March day. As the storm whirls against the house with strong blasts of rain and snow, our excitement increases by watching the swaying trees, and by listening to the shaking windows, while the lawless winds howl and rage around the corner. When ...

— Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! • Annie H. Ryder

... his home for Venice. He had married a Venetian wife, who, among the bleak mountains of the Katunska, was pining for the sun and warmth of her native city. But before leaving he laid down the lines for a powerful regime. A Prince-Bishop, or Vladika, was placed at the head of affairs, but, to help him in his difficult task, there was created a second office, that of ...

— The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon

... many tinkling bells. All this the King saw as he pondered much, who had not pondered before. Westward the Agnid mountains frowned in the distance guarding the river Eidis; behind them the fierce people of Zeenar lived in a bleak land. ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

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