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Example sentences for "dark room"

  • The effect will be heightened if the eye is viewed in a dark room with a small hole in the shutter, but in every case the appearance will be very striking.

  • You can always detect the tiny but formidable foe by placing the bird in a dark room, and, after a few hours, holding a bright lamp close by the cage.

  • When sunlight enters a dark room through a small opening, the dust particles dancing in the sun show a straight ray.

  • If a beam of sunlight is admitted into a dark room through a narrow opening in the shade, and is allowed to fall upon a prism, as shown in Figure 86, a beautiful band of colors will appear on the opposite wall of the room.

  • Among the Serbians the need-fire is sometimes kindled by a boy and girl between eleven and fourteen years of age, who work stark naked in a dark room; sometimes it is made by an old man and an old woman also in the dark.

  • Usually the need-fire was made in the open air, but in some parts of Serbia it was kindled in a dark room; sometimes the place was a cross-way or a hollow in a road.

  • For three days she remains shut up in a dark room, and has to undergo certain penances.

  • The light of their trains was also of a paler hue, not unlike that produced by writing with a stick of phosphorus on the walls of a dark room.

  • Indeed, for delicate observations, the observer should remain for some time beforehand in a dark room, to let the pupil of the eye dilate.

  • And 'tis strange what women and children will conceive unto themselves, if they go over a churchyard in the night, lie, or be alone in a dark room, how they sweat and tremble on a sudden.

  • And this I have experimented in a dark Room, by illuminating those Bodies with uncompounded Light of divers Colours.

  • For those are Substances apt to reflect one sort of Light, and transmit another; as may be seen in a dark Room, by illuminating them with similar or uncompounded Light.

  • Nevertheless it is an eminently practical appliance, and is as well adapted to the factory as to the amateur's dark room.

  • Simple and efficient appliances for the dark room can be purchased very cheaply.

  • The blackest camphine smoke in a dark room, through which a sunbeam passes from an aperture in the window-shutter, renders the track of the beam white, by the light scattered from the surfaces of the soot particles.

  • Permitting a beam of white light to fall upon fresh leaves in a dark room, the sudden change from green to red, and from red back to green, when the violet glass is alternately introduced and withdrawn, is very surprising.

  • The rectilineal propagation of light may be illustrated by permitting the solar light to enter, through a small aperture in a window-shutter, a dark room in which a little smoke has been diffused.

  • People were much astonished when the chief of the ophthalmological service had the man isolated in a dark room.

  • On isolation in a dark room, the patient began to see light!

  • Thus an observer, whose eyes required some time to recover their tone, was long under the impression that rotten wood did not emit light at noon-day, even in a dark room.

  • The same may have happened to Doctor Wall, who, in the daytime, even in a dark room, could hardly perceive the electric light of amber.

  • That a nimbus of this kind is produced round the luminous image in the eye may be best seen in a dark room, if we look towards a moderately large opening in the window-shutter.

  • This image, together with all other objects of the external landscape, appears reversed on the white surface in question in a dark room.

  • A ray of light passing through an aperture into a dark room, proceeds in a straight line; a fact of which any one may be convinced by going into a darkened room and admitting light only through a small aperture.

  • When dried in a dark room, the paper is fit for use.

  • The paper should then be dried in a dark room, and, if required to be very sensitive, should a second time be brushed over with the nitrate of silver solution.

  • After a few seconds the light must be again shut off, and the camera removed into a dark room.

  • Malvolio into a dark room was, to make him believe that he was mad.

  • Place the coin thus prepared upon red-hot iron, remove it into a dark room, and the figure and inscription will become more luminous than the rest, and may be distinctly seen and read by the spectator.

  • Fifteen grains of nitrate of silver were next dissolved in half a drachm of water in a test tube, and the whole taken into the dark room, when the latter was added to the former slowly, stirring the mixture the whole time.

  • This, of course, had to be done in what is commonly called a dark room.

  • There is one great mistake which many people make of thinking of red as a cheerful color, and one which is good to use in a dark room.

  • The amount of wall space and the quality and the quantity of the light are important factors in deciding the color scheme because by using them correctly we can brighten a cheerless, dark room or soften the blaze in a too sunny one.

  • Tans should never come too close to brown for a dark room, for nothing is more dreary or hopeless than a room done in that depressing color.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark and bloody ground; dark background; dark blue; dark cloud; dark color; dark colored; dark crimson; dark eyes; dark figure; dark forest; dark grey; dark lady; dark lantern; dark night; dark purple; dark purplish; dark room; given substance; given weight; gray matter; great consideration; his hand; private detective; proprietatibus rerum; the fat; white fish