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Example sentences for "dark and"

  • At night the street is dark and deserted.

  • Below Canal street Broadway is dark and silent, but above that point it is as bright as day, and fairly alive with people.

  • The city is dark and still, and there is not a sound in all the vast edifice which towers so majestically in the gloom of the night.

  • The theatre is dark and gloomy, the stage not much lighter, and everything is in confusion.

  • The glorious saint this answer made: “Dear child of Raghu, hear Who dwells within the horrid shade That looks so dark and drear.

  • All grieve for banished Ráma: feast, And revelry and song have ceased: Like a black night when floods pour down, So dark and gloomy is the town.

  • Earth and sea Forget not heaven that makes them seem divine, Though night put out their fires and bid their shrine Be dark and pale as storm and twilight.

  • This by night was old Paris, dark and dangerous, where the Apache dwelled, and by day in a fleeing city, with none to restrain, he might be no less ruthless.

  • He saw that the night was going to be dark and he was thankful.

  • He saw shapes, faint, dark and floating on every horizon, but none of them came near until a full half-hour had elapsed.

  • She repines, her womanly nature revolts at the thought--the destiny her superstition pictured so dark and terrible, stares her in the face.

  • She was always of a melancholy turn, used to say life was but a burden to her--that she could see nothing in the future that did not seem dark and tortuous.

  • London has nothing so besotted, Paris nothing so vicious, Naples nothing so dark and despairing, as this heathen world we pass by so heedlessly.

  • She repines, her womanly nature revolts at the thought-the destiny her superstition pictured so dark and terrible, stares her in the face.

  • She was always of a melancholy turn, used to say life was but a burden to her-that she could see nothing in the future that did not seem dark and tortuous.

  • The night had been one of painful suspense and gloomy forebodings; and the day set in dark and cloudy, as if to tantalise us with the hope of rain which was not destined to fall.

  • Heavy rain was apparently falling to the westward of us, and the night set in dark and lowering.

  • Slowly he went up the great staircase, dark and silent, up which his eager steps had followed the flying feet of Sulpizia.

  • The night set in dark and stormy; a fierce northeasterly wind swept over the level waste, driving thick snow-clouds before it, shaking the doors and windows of the old house, and roaring in its vast chimney.

  • As the night deepened, dark and sultry, distant flashes of silent lightning added to the lurid character of my midnight vigil.

  • Out of this gray curtain he suddenly reappeared, dark and savage, like a dun rock emerging from mist.

  • Her eyes, wide, dark and beautiful, pleaded with me for help, and yet I could only kneel by her side and press her hand and repeat the doctor's words of comfort.

  • Thou solitary sea, whose billows sweep The margin of my forests, dark and deep, Rejoice!

  • Here Fancy, as the prize were won, And now she hailed her favourite son, With energy impatient cried: The weary world is dark and wide, Lo!

  • In the darkness he descried a moving shadow, dark and dense.

  • They were like the palaces of the Orient, dark and forbidding on the outside, glistening within like a lake of pearl.

  • The old women with faces as dark and wrinkled as winter apples touched glasses with Caragol in the low cafes near the port.

  • Into the grave looks only the slave, For rest to his limbs aweary; His spirit's light comes from that night, To us so dark and dreary.

  • The way to those mysteries is dark and to thee impenetrable.

  • But thou art good; I am dark and foul as Tartarus!

  • All this floated before her, drifting by, dark and ominously, like the shadow of a great cloud on the face of the waters.

  • The night came, dark and dreary; a sable mantle of clouds hung from east to west like a wall of gloom, and when from noon ten hours had sped Chios went forth, following the highway to the Temple.

  • In the bromide crayon the shadows are dark and strong, while in this they are lighter and more transparent.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark ages; dark blue; dark cloud; dark color; dark colour; dark complexion; dark face; dark figure; dark forest; dark ground; dark hair; dark lane; dark line; dark lines; dark night; dark purple; dark room; dark spots; dark yellow; darker shade; darkness came; first thing; more ancient; she finished; somewhat irregular; spiritual house