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Example sentences for "dark night"

  • Will I see the blessed hour when the dark night in which Rome keeps my dear Canada will be exchanged for the bright and saving light of the Gospel?

  • Every sentence was like a flash of lightning in a dark night.

  • In a dark night, as I was leaving the steamer to take the train, on the Ottawa River, Canada, twice, the bullets of the murderers whistled at no more than two or three inches from my ears.

  • One can take a good many steps on a dark night, if one sees a friendly gleam in a window here and there.

  • We heard her squealing and moaning one dark night after it had been snowing and hailing for several hours, and, climbing over into the sty, we found her nearly frozen to death.

  • Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense.

  • Even then the task of despatching one of these creatures is no child's play on a dark night, for they lash their long tails about with such fury that a broken leg might be the result of coming too close.

  • We bound to Pam in New Caledonia to load chroma ore, and run ashore on dark night.

  • Any one might reasonably be a little startled by having a sudden pause made before them by an unknown person on a dark night.

  • I have seen many a dark night, Mr Dicey, but this pretty well beats them all," observed Paul.

  • I can rely upon my weapon when I can see, but on a dark night it is pretty well guesswork.

  • Then, when things get to the worst, we can work upwards, and come out on a dark night.

  • We must have the cage pretty strong, or I shall never get anyone to sit with me; besides, on a dark night, there is no calculating on killing to a certainty with the first shot, and it is just as well to be on the safe side.

  • It was not a dark night, for the moon sailed serenely behind fleecy clouds, but the shadows cast by her silvery light might harbour any terror.

  • JOHN DARBY" Although it was snowing hard, it was not a dark night.

  • I answered that I had been lying at Stonington a number of days, waiting for a dark night to get past him.

  • As it was a dark night, and not being myself a good pilot through that passage, I concluded to follow them.

  • I remained at Stonington a few days, when a dark night appearing, I again made sail, and arrived at Providence, my port of destination, in safety.

  • If I were to tell you how deep my love is for France you'd be able to realize, mon ami, what my feelings are when I'm with those three Boches on a dark night on board the Anna.

  • What am I searching for in the cold, dark night?

  • It is a good joke; for instance, and one often perpetrated on board ship, to stand talking to a man in a dark night watch, and all the while be cutting the buttons from his coat.

  • He belonged to the fore-hold, whence, of a dark night, he would sometimes emerge to chat with the sailors on deck.

  • On a dark night, therefore, Preble, with forty men, ran in unperceived, and the Winthrop got alongside her enemy.

  • While off Gibraltar, on a dark night, the Constitution found herself quite close to a large ship.

  • I had all but completely shut the dark night from my thoughts.

  • We will have to be moving, gentlemen, for it is a rough road and a dark night.

  • Then there's your pitch-dark night; the river is a very different shape on a pitch-dark night from what it is on a starlight night.

  • Tom appeared on the roof and began to find fault with me for running such a dark night--' 'Such a DARK NIGHT ?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark night" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also tells; better idea; could name; dark and bloody ground; dark blue; dark complexion; dark face; dark figure; dark forest; dark green; dark hair; dark lines; dark olive; dark place; dark room; darker shade; darkness came; false step; four states; mind upon; seafaring life; secondary sexual; similar purpose; spirit photography; stout heart; twenty miles