84 adjectives to describe blackness

There the hills ran into inky blackness, as the horizon sometimes merges into a thunder squall.

I took these to be storerooms, possibly containing spoils of the voyage, but gave them little other thought, my whole interest centered on the intense blackness ahead.

It is a promise of health, happiness, and usefulness to many an unfortunate little waif, whose earthly inheritance is utter blackness, and whose moral blight can be outgrown and succeeded by a development of intelligence and love of virtue.

XIV AN ADVENTURE IN THE NIGHT Ten seconds after entering the arroyo I was stumbling along in an absolute blackness.

Already the glow in the west had vanished, the storm-cloud was half up the heavens, and a thick blackness had gathered over the ocean.

Yet in the awful blackness of the place even the echo of these human voices seemed a kindly and blessed thing, and a certain shrinking loneliness fell on me when they ceased at last and all was silent.

So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

Lesbia was almost fearless, yet she felt a thrill of awe as she looked into that dense blackness.

The broad mantle of this one infamy will cover with substantial blackness the radiance of your glory, and change to feelings of abhorrence the present admiration of the world.

For one moment Grimm stood still, dazed and blinded by the sudden blackness, and again he started toward the door.

I had now no longer any felicity in contemplating the exact disposition of my powdered curls, the equal plaits of my ruffles, or the glossy blackness of my shoes; nor heard with my former elevation those compliments which ladies sometimes condescended to pay me upon my readiness in twisting a paper, or counting out the change.

Even as the thoughts were formed, there grew against the impalpable blackness that wrapped me a faint tinge of blood.

Ever more swiftly the stars closed in about the spot where Antares and Vega had vanished in a phosphorescent haze, until that part of the sky had the semblance of a whirling mass of nebulae, and ever before me yawned vaster gaps of vacant blackness, and the stars shone fewer and fewer.

The sky was now grown very much darker, and there was in the blue of it a heavy gloom, as though a vast blackness peered through it upon the earth.

Against his name in the official books stands a mark of the most deadly blackness.

When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.

Great jaws of ugly blackness snapped about us as if we were introduced into a coterie of crocodiles.

He was running about in little circles and clasping at the solid blackness with both hands.

The huge shoulders of the moors are now majestically indistinct, and towards the west the browns, purples, and greens are all merged in one unfathomable blackness.

I had been down this tunnel once before, and knew the bulkhead was not far away, but the few steps necessary plunged us into profound blackness, through which we advanced cautiously with outstretched hands.

So the pit persisted and he surrendered himself, as one accepts death, to its hateful blackness.

Then, I stopped, and held the light high; and reason enough I had to be thankful that I did so; for there, not three paces forward, the path vanished, and, in place, showed a hollow blackness, that sent sudden fear through me.

The history of those days remains in Carlyle's words, "Not a picture, but a huge blot: an indiscriminate blackness, one which the human memory cannot willingly charge itself with!" XXXVI.

What spirit passed before him, or slowly shaped itself out of the infinite blackness of the wood? None.

After a time, I looked to right and left, and saw the intolerable blackness of the night, pierced by remote gleams of fire.

84 adjectives to describe  blackness