lowering vs sunless

lowering

adj
  • Dark and menacing. 

  • Lurking, skulking, menacing. 

  • That lowers or frowns. 

noun
  • The act of something being lowered. 

sunless

adj
  • Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed. 

  • Dreary, cheerless. 

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