Then, throwing the barrel of my weapon forward, I descended, slowly, into the darkness of the underground regions.

With uncanny abruptness the black wall of darkness in front of us was alive with fiery eyeballs.

The raw weather, which had once been a horror of darkness to me, was now something kindly and homelike.

And here he would tell some tale of how light came out of black darkness for the trusting heart.

"This cannibal land of deep darkness with woods of spooky mystery is like a magnet," said Mary Slessor.

It had been a long evening, and her headache, she said, necessitated solitude and darkness at once.

For me, Andrew Garvald, the prosaic trader, coming out of the darkness into this strange company, the foundations of the world had been upset.

So, rolling our pants up above our knees (there was no use of talking about shoes and stockings; such luxuries were not within the range of indulgence to boys of our age in those days, save in the frosts and snows of winter, and stubbed toes, stone bruises, and thorns in the feet, come floating along down from the long past, like shadows of darkness on the current of memory.

"My dear widow, you are charming!" cried Colonel Killigrew, whose eyes had been fixed upon her face, while the shadows of age were flitting from it like darkness from the crimson daybreak.

Dat call him all de voodooall!" He stared wildly about in the darkness as though expecting to see the night thronged.

The rapidity with which this speck grew into a dense cloud, and spread itself in darkness over the heavens, as well as the increasing swell of the ocean before we felt the wind, soon convinced us he was right.

The little Pilgrim wept for happiness to hear her brother's voice; but in the midst of it her ear was caught by another sound,a faint cry which tingled up from the darkness like a note of a muffled bell,and she turned from the joy and the light, and flung out her arms and her little voice towards him who was stumbling upon the dark mountains.

The darkness without was absolute, and there was not a sound to disturb the stillness.

It lay behind a pile of trunks and I was, at the time, on my way to the center of the earth, for the cheerful path dove into darkness behind the chimney.

A fourth tune the Voice came to them faintly, and she snapped fiercely at some unseen thing in the darkness between the two rocks.

The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the end of the eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by Umpire O'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate.

"Twould be wiser like to wait for darkness before trying that bit," he said.

He turned and walked into the darkness beyond the camp-fires.

Like thee, he had compassion on the darkness around him, and craved my leave to go forth and dispel it.

The beach did look gray and desolate, dun-colored in the dull light of the early day, with the winter-killed grass and the stunted green growth of cedar and holly and pine only making splotches of darkness under a gray sky which was filled with scurrying clouds.

Vanbraam and Robert Stobo were appointed to accompany the French back to the Ohio, to remain there as hostages, and we all shook hands with them before they went away through the darkness toward the French camp.

After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers, through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for the elected artist, like yellow wheat for the reaper; and I could not help wishing that I might carry colors and brushes with me on my travels, and learn to paint.

The darkness about him held no human being save himself, but the vision was just as real to him, and the coming was just as welcome as though it had all been true.

After a while Verplanck and I went forth and sauntered along in the darkness through the deserted streets, among the tenantless and gloomy houses, till we reached the point where his path would diverge for Broadway and up-town, and mine for Fulton Ferry and Brooklyn Heights.

At once changing my course to the direct route, I pushed rapidly on through the darkness towards Smoky Hill River.