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Sentences starting with darkness

Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun. [10]
Darkness indeed for Victoria, who throughout her life had lived in light alone; in the light she had shed, and the light which she had kindled in others. [9]
Darkness was on them by this time, and the host lighted bowls of fat with wicks of deer's tendons, and by the light of these and the fire they ate their supper. [11]
Darkness fell, and still we waited, impatient for the order. [9]
Darkness upon the river, and fireflies upon the shore. [11]
Darkness would be peace. [11]
Darkness shut him out from my view in less than a minute, and within the next minute I lost the road and got to wandering in the sage brush. [5]
Darkness was coming on, and he welcomed it. [13]
Darkness was gathering now, and she could see the glimmer of the light of lamps through the windows, and as the doors opened and shut. [11]
Darkness comes quickly in this land of brief twilight. [11]

Sentences ending with darkness

Kalamoun was hopeless; yet twenty-four hours earlier Fielding had fancied there was a little light in the darkness. [11]
There were not yet any ropes or zigzag streaks darting down through the gathering darkness. [13]
An enormous space, with our army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; in front of him was misty darkness. [2]
But thee it will lead into paths ending in a gulf of darkness. [11]
Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
Night fell, and when they reached the Silliston road the lights of Hampton shone below them in the darkness. [9]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
He spoke, but what he said I knew not, for the stark upturned face of Juste Duvarney was there before me, there was a great buzzing in my ears, and I fell back into darkness. [11]
We must clear up this unilluminated atmosphere, and here,--here is the true electric light which will irradiate its darkness. [3]
Wherever the eye turned it met darkness. [10]

Short sentences using darkness

No star illumined the darkness. [10]
Besides, I hate the darkness. [10]
This darkness is symbolic. [4]
In darkness and silence--whims come. [10]
The darkness came on fast. [5]
He longed for darkness. [11]
Darkness has closed around me. [9]
She started forward--into absolute darkness. [11]
The darkness grows. [5]
All was darkness. [5]

Sentences containing darkness two or more times

She was not glad that these words ran through her mind continuously at first: "A land of darkness as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death without any order, and where the light is darkness. [11]
Jen turned her face from the flame and looked away from the oasis of warmth it made, to where the light shaded away into darkness, a darkness that was unbroken for many a score of miles to the north and west. [11]
She rose, felt around in the clammy darkness for her wrapper and slippers, gained the door, crept through the dark hall to the dining-room, where she stealthily lit the lamp; darkness had become a terror. [9]

More example sentences with the word darkness in them

She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you. [10]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
Again, in the years of my struggle for livelihood which followed, I dreamed of her; I pictured her often in the midst of the darkness of the Revolution. [9]
By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowy snow, the driving storm, every soul leaped, with the consciousness that a moment lost now might bring destruction to us all. [5]
The goddess on whom Hermon had bestowed the features of her own face had deprived him of sight to confer upon her the happiness of brightening and beautifying the darkness of his life. [10]
This was Diodoros, who, while Alexander was giving his directions to the charioteer, had, under cover of the darkness, sprung into the vehicle from the opposite side. [10]
Everywhere the restless white rays of the searchlights pierced the darkness, seeking, but seeking in vain. [9]
The brilliant illumination which usually shone through the darkness would have attracted the attention of the Alexandrians. [10]
An hour later, when the room was in darkness save for the bar of light that streamed in from the platform chandelier, Senator Whitredge entered. [9]
It stays on when the darkness comes, reigning in the gloom. [11]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
On the days when his letters came it was as his emissary that the sun shone to give her light in darkness, and she went about the house with a song on her lips. [9]
I have forgotten what Miller Gorse was called; nothing so classic as a Minotaur; Judd Jason was a hairy spider who spread his net and lurked in darkness for his victims. [9]
Dampness and darkness were round about me. [4]
Then the world went out in darkness, and I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all --at least for a while. [5]
Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
At sundown, when we loosed our exhausted horses to graze on the wet grass by the streams, Tom would go off to look for a deer or turkey, and often not come back to us until long after darkness had fallen. [9]
You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude. [9]
Dumbfounded as Rockwell was, with instant professional presence of mind he said: "No, Ingolby, you must be kept in darkness a while yet. [11]
Our first thought was to build a fire, which would drive back the thick darkness into the woods, and boil some water for our tea. [4]
In the eyes was the darkness of the well of despair; but at his lips was iron resolution. [11]
His first objective was Soolsby's hut, and, long before he reached it, darkness had fallen. [11]
Already the darkness was so heavy that one could not see far; these people and the old turrets, being partly in deep shadow and partly in the red glow from the great torch-baskets overhead, made a good deal of a picture. [5]
Our mossy resting-place was named the Bridal Chamber Camp, in the enthusiasm of the hour, after darkness fell upon the woods and the stars came out. [4]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
And then there was darkness and blindness, and he stood once more before his congregation, speaking words that sounded hollow, hearing responses that mocked him, stared at by accusing eyes that knew him for a hypocrite. [4]
Yet my justice was but darkness of purpose, the hidden terror to them all. [11]
A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
The dark form was a mere blot upon the lighter darkness of the room, but she saw the turning of the head, and felt and knew how the eyes looked and the ears listened. [12]
Each blazing storehouse was a gigantic torch throwing a broad glare into the darkness of the night. [10]
The Romany was waiting outside in the darkness not far away--watching and waiting. [11]
Everything was plainly visible, for the desert tract of the Nekropolis, where at this hour utter darkness and silence usually reigned, was brightly lighted up. [10]
They are in utter darkness as to his opinions on any of the questions of policy which occupy the public attention. [7]
Old age leaps upon it as his saddle, and rides triumphant, unchallenged, until the darkness comes which no glasses can penetrate. [6]
The door opened upon darkness, but Jasmine stepped inside, with Almah's fingers clutching her sleeve. [11]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
The darkness lightened, turned to slow-drifting haze, and lifted. [13]
Appalled by this transition, he alighted from the car, and stood for a moment alone in the darkness gazing at the great white houses that rose above the dusky outline of shrubbery and trees. [9]
As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
It was in total darkness, but through the narrow open door in the middle of the left wall one could see what was going on in Barbara's little bow-windowed room. [10]
It were almost too dramatic to say that he required darkness to make his effect, but so it seemed. [9]
At length Big Tom separated himself from his companions and took a course in accordance with his notion of that which would be pursued by a man lost in the clouds or the darkness. [4]
His heart began to throb; the artist's love of his art had awaked within him; he had collected his wits, and explained to the matron that to paint in the darkness was impossible. [10]
Saul had crept to this place in the darkness, while his army slept, to learn what fate awaited him in the morrow's battle. [5]
On growing used to the darkness Pierre saw that the man was taking off his leg bands, and the way he did it aroused Pierre's interest. [2]
It is hard to tell what he thought as he stood there and peered into the darkness of the other room-the living-room of the house. [11]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
As he intended to make the move under cover of darkness, he wanted most to be able to tell where to climb up. [13]
Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness. [10]
Anything might happen to him--anything would be grateful; the thought of his study in the parish house was unbearable; the Dalton Street which had mocked and repelled him suddenly became alluring with its champaigns of light and inviting stretches of darkness. [9]
She had sought to help one who loved her, and to fully prove the other--though the proving, she knew, was not necessary--before the darkness came. [11]
Austen permitted himself to dwell, as he descended the mountain in the gathering darkness, upon the fancy of the springing of a generation of ideals from a generation of commerce which boded well for the Republic. [9]
The twilight deepened to dusk, to darkness. [9]
She had expected to be expelled as a castaway when she came down the mountain, losing her way in the darkness. [10]
The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and "maow," whereupon he would slip out and try the keys. [5]
Then he pointed to Amminadab's house, from which no ray of light gleamed through the darkness, and asked Hosea to spend the remainder of the night beneath his roof, as he probably would not wish yo disturb his aged father at so late an hour. [10]
Close beside her--this time at her right--the loud laughter of men's harsh voices echoed through the darkness. [10]
The same haunting thought was in all minds there: the pity of this death, the going out into the great darkness, and the mother not here to help and hearten and bless. [5]
Yes, first I thought that we are driving along and imagining that we are going home, but that heaven knows where we are really going in the darkness, and that we shall arrive and suddenly find that we are not in Otradnoe, but in Fairyland. [2]
She felt as though the darkness around had suddenly brightened into broad day, as her ear told her that the approaching horseman was riding straight toward the house of her host Amminadab. [10]
Night fell as though a blanket had been spread over the tree-tops, and above the dreary splashing men could be heard calling to one another in the darkness. [9]
In darkness, however, those things were naught, because judgment must depend on the eyes and senses of others. [11]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
The Scientist finds this reasonable, natural, and not harder to believe than that the disease germ, a creature of darkness, perishes when exposed to the light of the great sun--a new revelation of profane science which no one doubts. [5]
Such parodies as this in the Song of Prussia we could understand very well: "I am a Prussian, my colours you know, From darkness to light they boldly go; But that for Freedom my fathers died, Is a fact which I have not yet descried. [10]
For a time they walked silently through the darkness. [10]
In the darkness, they left the hut and passed into the woods, and slowly up through the hills. [11]
Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. [2]
In the darkness there is recrimination. [4]
Images never presented themselves as distinctly to those who could see as to the blind man in his darkness. [10]
An impulse made them pause and turn, and they stood looking back together at the great house which loomed the greater in the thickening darkness, its windows edged with glow. [9]
Miriam listened to them as they scampered away, and then, with her head sunk, she led her flock home, feeling her way in the darkness with her bare feet. [10]
So they pressed their horses, and he saw them swallowed by the trees, as darkness gathered. [11]
As seeds in the womb of earth break from the brooding darkness, Or as the soul soars free, heaven-seeking from the grave, So the hopeless soil of a dungeon blossoms to rapture, Blooms with roses of Love, more sweet than the wildling rose! [10]
Al'mah turned towards the window with a shining face, and waved a kiss out of the light and glory where she was, to the sufferer in the darkness. [11]
Complete darkness enfolded the white house. [10]
He went to the western window and looked forth into the darkness. [6]
One by one the troopers rode through the faint belt of light that stretched from the door, and were lost in the darkness, the thud of their horses' hoofs echoing behind them. [11]
I flung away the torch, leaving the head of the column in darkness, broke from Mr. [9]
The darkness over the sun was withdrawn, and now the clear light began to spread itself abroad. [11]
The lights in the streets and shops made them feel yet more desolate, for with their help, night and darkness seemed to come on faster. [12]
He ran up the steps before March, and opened the carpenter's temporary valve in the door frame, and led the way into a darkness smelling sweetly of unpainted wood-work and newly dried plaster; their feat slipped on shavings and grated on sand. [8]
It doubled around the spurs, forded stony brooks in diagonals, and often in the darkness of the mountain forest I had to feel for the blazes on the trees. [9]
At any cost the spirits of darkness must not be allowed to triumph over those of light. [10]
But at length the sound of wheels was heard in the street, Cynthia flew to the door, and a familiar voice came out of the darkness. [9]
The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts. [5]
Sooner or later the Sentence would reach every Romany everywhere, and Jethro would pass into the darkness of oblivion, not in his own time nor in the time of Fate. [11]
As he approached the second story, in which the nursery was situated and where he expected to find his wife, it suddenly seemed as if a star had risen amid the darkness. [10]
Farther away, on the right and left, the light was dim, and near the side walls the darkness was as intense as in a real tomb. [10]
The moonlight and the reflection from the snow shone brightly through the little window, but Ulrich longed for darkness, and buried his face in the pillows. [10]
Again she saw the Redeemer as He had stood before her at the end of her ride, stretching out His arms to her in the darkness, inviting her, who was weary and heavy laden, to be refreshed by him. [10]
Now, out of the pitchy darkness and close at hand, came the sharp command: "Halt! [5]
In a turn the passage narrowed to scarce a dozen feet, and here was darkness of night. [13]

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