"I had to, sir," the dragon answered gloomily.

'No amount of holiday can compensate for the beginning of the autumn term,' Andrew answered gloomily.

"You're telling me," the young ventriloquist answered gloomily.

When applied to by an official person, about the Orleans Prisoners, and the risks they ran, he answered gloomily, twice over, "Are not these men guilty?"

"I wouldn't have bothered you otherwise, my Lord," Hogan answered gloomily.

No, Major," he answered gloomily, "can't learn nothing of my ma, don't know where she is.

"Us and all," his mate answered gloomily.

Her skipper gloomily answered the emergency call from Xosa II.

"I know," the senior centurion answered gloomily.

"They have decided he must," the girl answered gloomily.