"It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky." Can't understand the meaning of that sentence.

Mikhail

Answers · 1

I would need more context, but another way of phrasing this might be,"It needed only this (referring to something earlier in the paragraph) to complete the feeling of a cold dark, barren wasteland."

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