bleak vs castoff

bleak

adj
  • Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. 

  • Without color; pale; pallid. 

  • Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. 

noun
  • A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. 

castoff

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

How often have the words bleak and castoff occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )