Mary King rode a great round on Call Again Cavalier, formerly partnered by Caroline Pratt, whose death left a sombre cloud over last year's event here.
This sombre drama clouds that issue with an excess of subplots, many of which go frustratingly unresolved.
A sombre mood clouds the northern town of Middlesbrough.
A large cloud, sombre as the rocky hills, had massed in the sky, and the grass below was stirring like the sea before a storm.
We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question.
He gave a tip of the hat to Ubuntu's Enterprise Cloud, which supports the emerging EC2 standard, and finished on the sombre reminder: "Either the cloud is based on open source or you'll risk losing internet freedoms".
For the many pilgrims who stream into the lavishly decorated Church of St George, Istanbul, it is the crystal chandeliers, incense clouds, iconography and sombre, chanting, enigmatic bishops dressed in black that are the main attraction of a little-known district in the throbbing Turkish metropolis.
It's rather a different challenge technically, as well; normally first-person games rely on complex polygonal structures and texture maps to create scenes, but Scanner Sombre imitates the lidar style of point clouds very closely.
A stormy grey sky, with clouds racing furiously, reared up against that sombre background the plumes of English elms, happy - these particular specimens - in not having yet been truncated, either by adventure or by the prudent hand of the woodman; jets of sunshine, rendered keener by concentration, directed at these plumes and shewing them the loveliest veiled crimson.
In 1997 and 2005, she created a sombre diptych, "Mass" and "Anti-Mass," consisting of two clouds of charred fragments; one was drawn from the remains of a white Baptist church in Texas that was destroyed by lightning, the other from an African-American church in Kentucky that was burned down by arsonists.
