It was now intensely dark, the rain falling in torrents, and lightning bolts striking the water all around them, accompanied by fearful and incessant peals of thunder.

The night was profoundly dark.

It was totally dark, the blinds of the windows being tightly closed.

He hadn't your chance of making his mark, And his outlook was often exceedingly dark; Yet he clung to his purpose with courage most grim

The greater part of his head, of course, was concealed by the flowing white kaffiyi, but his skin was considerably darker than that of the Palestine Arab.

She wondered how long the two men were going to prose about mines and shares, in those subdued half-mysterious voices, telling each other occult facts in half-expressed phrases, utterly dark to the outside world; but, while she was languidly wondering, a change in her lover's manner startled her into keenest curiosity.

A clever and kind-hearted gentleman accompanied me through comparatively dark streets, and found a good hotel for me.

When Squinty awoke it was real dark.

"Why, one April Fool's Day she set the clock back an hour and Mr. Gilligan got up grumbling that it was awfully dark for six o'clock.

It was dark outside, but the hall-lamp was alight.

Something in Maria's expression recalled to me the blind beggar-girl Lara; but Maria had eyes with a singularly dark glance of fire.

You c'd make Rusty afore dark.

I say in marriage an au delà is impossible ... the endless duet of the marble and the water, the enervation of burning odours, the baptismal whiteness of women, light, ideal tissues, eyes strangely dark with kohl, names that evoke palm trees and ruins, Spanish moonlight or maybe Persepolis.

Clouds of a peculiar aspect with a slow, crawling gait gather and grow in the azure, throwing out satiny fringes, and becoming gradually darker until every lake-like rift and opening is closed and the whole bent firmament is obscured in equal structureless gloom.

"I went up, and looked out on deck, but everything was horribly dark and sticky and miserable there.

Now could I weep to see each mourning weed So deeply dark around thy wasting brow; If life and art are then so briefI bow With less of sorrow to what is decreed: Ye faded cloistersye departing aisles!

'Wish it wasn't so infernally dark,' growled Roy.

I fear closed shutters make the room a trifle dark to see clearly.

The evening was unusually dark, and while returning to his house across the open space at the back of the Tuileries (La Place de Carousal), he felt his shoulder suddenly grasped by a strong hand, and in another instant a poniard was plunged more than once into his breast, with the words, 'Die, Capet!'

The three men were lying not far apart, close in to the galley wall, merely dark, shapeless shadows, barely to be distinguished in the gloom.

The ighloo was practically dark.

The night appears doubly dark.]

" But for all that, it grew curiously dark in the night.

The color of their skin was not black, but a dark brown, scarcely any darker than that of Filipinos who have been much exposed to the sun; and only a few of them had woolly hair.

The night was impenetrably dark and the chaise more than ordinarily rickety.