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Sentences starting with dark

Dark spots on the light sand marked the places where others had thrown themselves on the ground, or, kneeling, stretched out their arms as if in defence. [10]
Dark things were said of this spot, and the country folk of the island were wont to avoid it. [11]
Dark is coming on, presently. [5]
Dark shadows lay on the road, and the high structures which shut it in like cliffs seemed to tower to the sky. [10]
Dark violet and golden yellow alternated in the slashed doublet and wide breeches. [10]
Dark forebodings of every kind oppressed her soul. [10]
Dark work of enchantment. [5]
Dark complexions, as being most common, are naturally held in the highest esteem. [1]
Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. [2]

Sentences ending with dark

Take leave of your wife, and (I speak by the king's command) be ready to start before dark. [10]
Now I suppose your present idea is, to leave us a little more in the dark. [5]
But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned you to deal with it deftly--to answer it dubiously, and leave them a little in the dark. [5]
It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
I came here with Polk, in his buggy, after dark. [9]
When the arms were bound, I felt the straps on my own; when the cap come down, I gasp for breath; when the bolt is shot, I feel the wrench and the choke, and shudder go through myself--feel the world jerk out in the dark. [11]
We wondered what was the matter, but reckoned it would come out all right, so we went on steering east, but went up on a higher level so we wouldn't hit any steeples or mountains in the dark. [5]
A crescent moon was struggling through floes of fleecy clouds, the stars were shining, and so the road was not entirely dark. [11]
But her mother was sleeping unresponsive beyond the dark-beyond all dark. [11]
The next day was dark. [9]

Short sentences using dark

It 'uz gitt'n' towards dark. [5]
It is dark too. [10]
But it was still dark. [11]
Why was it so dark? [11]
It was now quite dark. [10]
It was dark inside. [11]
It was dark in there. [2]
It was already growing dark. [10]
It began to grow dark. [10]
The dark scheme failed again. [5]

Sentences containing dark two or more times

In the same wing-feather of the Argus pheasant dark spots may be seen surrounded by a pale zone, and white spots by a dark zone. [1]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
And because he was dark, morose, and made no friends, and wished none, but went solitary his own dark way, Phil fancied that he must have Spanish blood in his veins, and would no doubt grow up to be a pirate. [4]
I don't light up until it's dark, but if you wish--" "You like the twilight; you don't light up until it's dark, but if I wish--ah, that's it! [11]
If the man to whom he had listened could pour the light into the dark corners of other men's souls, he, John Hodder, felt the same hot spark within him,--despite the dark corners of his own! [9]
The violet of the commissioner's dress and the dark hues of the fur-bordered surcoats worn by the elder Herr Van der Does and Herr Van Montfort blended pleasantly and harmonized the light and dark shades. [10]
There were only stars, and the night was dark, though not deep dark. [11]
It swirled the snow about in waves and dark masses interspersed with rifts of light, dark here and luminous there. [4]
It should be particularly observed that each ocellus stands in obvious connection either with a dark stripe, or with a longitudinal row of dark spots, for both occur indifferently on the same feather. [1]
The dark experiences of life leave their mark and give such natures that touch of mystery which allures even those who have high instincts and true feelings, as one peeps over a hidden depth and wonders what lies beyond the dark. [11]

More example sentences with the word dark in them

You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. [10]
She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
They may leave you in the bright days, not in the dark days. [11]
Some evening, perchance, you happen to be in the dark street outside of Charing Cross station. [9]
He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
It was not yet dark when he stopped at the house of Rufinus. [10]
She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
Oh, tell me, ye strong spirits, or ye dark and fleeting clouds, that I yet have a friend. [5]
Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip's private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [10]
At night she would not come if it was dark, for she was a timid little thing; but if there was a moon she would come. [5]
The fair Peri would look dark by your side. [10]
And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
Her face looked worn; there was a hectic spot on each cheek and dark circles round the eyes. [11]
This beautiful happy world they would have dark, gloomy, melancholy, hideous; thy kingdom, great Phoebus, is sunny, joyful and bright . [10]
He heard Byng's words, and for a moment his dark eyes glowed with a look of evil satisfaction. [11]
It was a wonderful dream, in which he found the way, as he thought, to atone somewhat to this man for a dark injury done. [11]
A dark little woman, rather worn--must have been pretty once though. [5]
Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
The Queen, less woman now than Queen, enraged by the information got he knew not how, had come at once to punish the gross breach of her orders and a dark misconduct-so he thought. [11]
When afterwards my Wolff's unhappy deed was added, I felt as though I were standing in a dense, dark mist, where each step forwards must lead me into a stifling morass or over a precipice. [10]
Come weal, come woe, come dark, come light, I have fixed my mind, and nothing shall change it. [11]
Before this radiant witness he was ashamed to carry out his dark purpose, and he said, addressing the sun: "For thy sake, Phoebus Apollo, I spare the man. [10]
The winding staircase within is dark, but one always knows which side of the tower he is on because of his naturally gravitating from one side to the other of the staircase with the rise or dip of the tower. [5]
Her eyes swam with tears now, the lines of pain at her mouth relaxed, the dark look in her eyes stole away. [11]
The heavens glowed with purple, and the granite peaks, each sheathed in a film of ice, sparkled and shone like dark diamonds that had been dipped in light. [10]
It was dark, with no moon, but the stars were bright. [11]
Again, I sat with Nick under the trees on the lawn at Temple Bow, and the world was dark with the coming storm. [9]
Latterly his familiarity with it has doubled in bulk; so that when America is mentioned now, two torches flare up in the dark caverns of his mind and he says, "Ah, the country of the great man Washington; and of the Holy City--Chicago. [5]
Luck would be with him that offered first succour in that dark hour. [11]
Her cheeks glowed with health, and she wore a becoming suit of dark blue. [9]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
He was obsessed with anxiety, for he had a dark fear that some ill had happened to the two. [11]
They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
We went to windswept, Sabbath-keeping Edinburgh, to high Stirling and dark Holyrood, and to Abbotsford. [9]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
The storm of wind and rain that had swept down the ravine was not wilder than her passions when I left her with Justine in the dark night. [11]
She steeled her will to wait till then, no matter how dark the sky might be. [11]
Clarence said: "They will be wanting to send a scout or two in the dark to make preliminary observations. [5]
The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited--had seized--all his father's wealth. [11]
There were some who scattered as he drew near, and of the less timorous spirits that remained only a few raised dark, sullen glances to encounter his, which was unflinching, passionately contemptuous. [9]
But many brightly-coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull-coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses. [1]
Yet all the while for Sheila one dark thought kept hovering over everything. [11]
At the entrance, which was perfectly dark, he found his master, Papias, who had not missed a word of what had passed between him and the Emperor. [10]
And the world which she had seen afar, filled with sunlit palaces, seemed very dark and dreary to her to-night. [9]
The hysterical passion which had possessed him suddenly passed, and a dark, sullen determination swept into his eyes and over his face. [11]
The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [10]
Her dark eyes, which at first had glittered distrustfully and questioningly and afterwards glowed with a gloomy light, now gained a new expression. [10]
The saloon below, where we had our tea, was lighted indeed, but sealed so tight as to be insupportable; and the cabin above, stifling too, was dark as a pocket. [9]
She knew now where the excommunicated man dwelt after whom Stephanus often asked, and she had gathered from the old man's lamentations and dark hints, that Paulus too had been ensnared and brought to ruin by her enemy. [10]
It was dark when we left the Club, and I recall the elation I felt and strove to conceal as I accompanied my chief back to the office. [9]
It was dark when they came into the station at Niagara--dark and silent. [4]
It was dark when the King and his company came to the combe. [11]
It was dark when Paulette entered the door of the tailor's house. [11]
So stay, and when it grows dark go with us to the Lochias. [10]
She vaguely felt, what all realise sooner or later, that we must live our dark hours alone. [11]
The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
Meanwhile dark clouds were spreading slowly over the bright-blue vault of the June sky. [10]
At length there were signs that we were drifting out of the wilderness, and one morning we came in sight of a rich plantation with its dark orange trees and fields of indigo, with its wide-galleried manor-house in a grove. [9]
Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
A few Thugs were privately detached and sent forward in the dark to select a good killing-place and dig the graves. [5]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
The Colonel's headquarters were dark, but in the kitchen a dozen tall men were waiting. [9]
All about Janet were dark, awakening faces.... [9]
The Cure's windows were dark, and the church with its white tin spire stood up sentinel-like above the village. [11]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
The young ladies were all in dark blue dresses, touched up with a red ribbon here and there, and wore light straw hats. [6]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
Often, too, have we stood together from early morning until dark night, waist deep, on the duck points, I with a fowling-piece I was all but too young to carry, and brought back a hundred red-heads or canvas-backs in our bags. [9]
Before we left, we shot a poor howling dog that mourned for his masters, and sank him also in the dark pool. [11]
I stumbled my way in the dark among the ranks of canvas scenery, and stood on the stage. [5]
There warn't no way but to wait for dark, and start back in the canoe and take the chances. [5]
The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed. [12]
Several times the watchers heard muffled sobs from the dark room where she lay at St. Denis, and many times the grieving words, "It could have been taken!--it could have been taken! [5]
I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]
Then the man was very surly, and said if he looked at the flat now he would say it was too dark, like all the rest. [8]
The glowing ruby was transformed into a dark amethyst, and at last assumed the deep hue of a violet; but the eyes of the people continued to dwell on the sacred scenes as though spell-bound. [10]
And though it was too dark for Pierre to see, he felt that a suppressed smile of kindliness puckered the soldier's lips as he put these questions. [2]
Unfortunately, perhaps, it was too dark before we reached Henry's to enable us to see the road in all its loops and parallels as it appears on the map, but we gained a better effect. [4]
Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb of the sun. [2]
What the thing was that happened to him and his grandfather's old ram is a dark mystery to this day, for nobody has ever yet found out. [5]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
The dark shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. [2]
Albeit the sun was not yet set, it was presently so dark that lights had been brought in and fifty tapers in the silver candlesticks added to the heat. [10]
Even so, he was not innocent of Lucy's misery and death, of the death of the little one who only opened its eyes to the light for an instant, and then went into the dark again. [11]
Indeed, Jean Jacques was living in a dream in these dark days--a dream of renunciation and sacrifice, and in the spirit of one who gives up all to some great cause. [11]
His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
The young man was intentionally kept in the dark about the greatest danger which threatened the business. [10]
Ah, yes, she was happy, more than happy, and yet not entirely so, for happiness must be bright, and a dark, harassing shadow fell again and again over the sunny enthusiasm which irradiated her nature and lent her a haughtier bearing. [10]
So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank--about a quarter of a mile. [5]
The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. [4]
The little lamp was extinguished, and for an hour all was still in the dark room. [10]
And now Pentaur was distinctly visible against a background of flaring light, for some fire-brands had fallen on the dry palm-thatch of the hovel behind him, and roaring flames rose up to the dark heavens. [10]

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