211 Verbs to Use for the Word darkness

In vain, a few moments later, did many eyes try to pierce the darkness.

There no longer seemed anything in the street but smoke, the balls whistling and crossing each other, the brief and repeated commands, some plaintive cries, and the flash of the guns lighting up the darkness.

Peal after peal resounded in quick succession, and reverberated from the distant kills; while flashes of forked lightning followed one another rapidly, and dispelled, for a moment, the unnatural darkness.

He was left in so complete darkness that his fears overcame his judgment and for two hours he roamed and babbled among the barrels.

There are other mysteries quite as incomprehensible, the results of which we can see, without being able to penetrate the darkness in which they dwell.

They may aid in illuminating the darkness of the present, and he should therefore 'speak them in words hard as rocks.'

And they found here a constant darkness and Shadow; for that the Sun could not make a shining around that Great Corner.

We are gifted with the power of imagination and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses...

This vacant indifference, so common to men in prosperity, was extended even to the sublimest exhibition of the Almighty power; our hero seeing nothing in the firmament of heaven, of a clear night, but the twinkling rights that seemed to him to be placed there merely to garnish and illumine the darkness of this globe.

Light brings light not darkness, and nobility done with a noble purpose will be twice rewarded.

'This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.'

The understanding finds nothing tangible; but amid dread and solemnity, sees only a shapen darkness with eloquent gestures.

He saw that the force arrayed against him was prodigious, and most tremendous in aspect; and offering a prayer to the Creator, he plunged into the battle. 'Twas at mid-day the strife began, With steed to steed and man to man; The clouds of dust which rolled on high, Threw darkness o'er the earth and sky.

A wild clatter of horsemen and footmen would fill the darkness.

Those who, having something to conceal, covet darkness, can find it there, to their hearts' content.

It was three days before his weak eyes had grown strong enough to permit his following her, and very quickly after that Ba-ree learned to love the sun, the warm air, and the sweetness of life, and to dread the darkness of the closed-in den where he had been born.

Sharp, short flames of orange and scarlet were stabbing the darkness.

He continued to watch the darkness until the outlines of the room and of its furniture dimly detached themselves from the black pall.

He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting, For mist and the blowing of winds and the mouthing of words he scorns; Not the sinuous speech of schools he hears, but a knightly shouting, And never comes darkness down, yet he greeteth a million morns.

In gleaming fight the darkness through.

Far as the eye could reach no spot of light broke the gray darkness; yet other ships could hear and read the cry for help, and, wheeling in their courses, they drove full speed ahead for the wreck.

For they were filled with light, And with the spring; and, like the bees, went back To their dark house, laden with blessed sights, With gladsome sounds home to their treasure-cave; Where henceforth sudden gleams of spring would pass Thorough the four-walled darkness of the room; And sounds of spring-time whisper trembling by, Though stony streets with iron echoed round.

Evils which are covered up under the smoothness of civilization, stand out in all their horrible deformity in the abandon of savage life; the Indian cannot get even one gleam of light, without instantly perceiving the darkness around him.

The brief nights, appeared to have lost the proper darkness of night; so that the hair-like fire of the flying stars, showed but dimly.

* * "Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!" What our formative, high-wrought English literature has suffered in Tennyson's passing from the age on which he has shed so much glory those can best say who are of his era, and have been intimate, as each appeared, with every successive issue of his works.

211 Verbs to Use for the Word  darkness