42 Words to use with darkness

We entered the mouth of this great tunnel, over 8 miles in length, at 4:58-1/2 p.m., and were exactly 26 minutes in the very bowels of the earth, where absolute darkness reigns.

What heathen darkness hath been thine abode

Thy mercy o'er this scene sublime presides; 'Tis mercy forms the veil that hides The ardent solar beam; While, from the volley'd breast of heaven, Transient gleams of dazzling light, Flashing on the balls of sight, Make darkness darker seem.

This issue 'Twas nothing more than darkness deepening darkness, And weakness crowned with the impotence of death!

but know amidst what Flowers Or in what Shade she stays, The gaudy Bowers, With all their verdant Pride, Their Blossoms and their Sprays, Which make my Mistress disappear; And her in envious Darkness hide, I from the Roots and Beds of Earth would tear.

He turns again, amid the darkness gropes, And careful climbs the cragged, slimy slopes,

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whisper'd word, "Lenore!"

In the darkness tears were slowly trickling down Annie's cheeks, and she could not stop them.

And as leaping flame Burn the Northern lights, On the darkness gleam Through the silent nights.

Beyond the air, you see the dark; (For the darkness hedges still our ways;) And beyond the dark, oh, lives away!

While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land!

The final impact occurred in the early darkness hours.

We are scoring another success in the manufacture of blubber lamps, which relieves anxiety as to lighting as the hours of darkness increase.

And all around me in the darkness insects sang, and delicate, gauzy creatures chirked and throbbed and strummed in cadence, while the star's light faintly silvered the still trees, and distant monotones of the forest made a sustained and steady rushing sound like the settling ebb of shallow seas.

This repose, which is a kind of enchantment, returns every night, while darkness interrupts and hinders labour.

Better have let sleeping darkness lie!

[Sidenote:23] Thus night succeeded day and darkness light.

The Father of eternal light Shall there His beams display; Nor shall one moment's darkness mix With that unvaried day.

Once again thy Poet-voice May sing sweet paeans to the golden Morn, Again may hail the saviour Light sun-born, And bid the wild and desert waste rejoice, Again with sighs the looming darkness mourn.

And God saw that light was good, and divided the light from darkness, and called the light day and darkness night.

And, though they shut their lids to kiss, In starless darkness peace to win, Even on that secret world from this Her twilight enters in.

This is because darkness rains, unless the sun shines.

In the darkness recognition was made through the fingers, and as there were eight enemies in the cavern and only one friend, I considered that the danger I ran of receiving a bullet from Holman was more than counterbalanced by the protection that the dancer's costume would give me if I ran against the groping hands of Leith or his gang.

During the hours of darkness reinforcements were hurried across the stream.

If I do meditate, it is on her; If dream of her, or if discourse of her, I think her ghost doth haunt me, as in times Of former darkness old wives' tales report.

42 Words to use with  darkness