I concluded then that the unhappy man had been cast away upon this ice whilst it was under bleaker heights than these parallels, and that he had crawled into a hollow, and perished in that melancholic sitting posture.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
In winter it is not good to be there; even the beasts shrink then from the bleak, level reaches, and shun the still bleaker heights.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
They, his surrogate family, knew that there was not just one blackness but despair had myriad blacker and bleaker hues.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills