Light eyes and dark are undistinguishable; the clearest complexion becomes muddy and full of lines if the color of the dress is such as to throw the shade upon it.
An artistic dressmaker places the dark or black plaids or stripes beneath the others.
Is it not singular that in this nineteenth century there should be found men who gladly accord to the Jew, the descendant of Shem, that of which they refuse even the possibility to the dark descendant of Ham?
Dark green, like crimson and orange, is a warmer, more intensified color, with less of liveliness and freshness.
Before their furious onset the rebel hosts give way; And, surging backward, hide again within the forest's shade, Whose mazesdark and intricate our charging columns stayed.
President Lincoln, of the United States, during the dark days of the civil war, in December, 1862, declared that he would gladly exchange his position with any common soldier in the tented field.
Without replying, Sever took the glasses and looked intently at the "gugu" trenches.
Where is there a soldier whose name is dry on the muster-rolls who has not heard of "Bull's-Eye" Kelley?
Benny, wringing his hands, and turning to Geordie with a look in his dark eyes Pops can never forget.
When the drums came beating tattoo across the Plain he returned to his tent, which was dark and deserted.
From the dark interior of the tent came a gurgle of suppressed laughter.
Just back of them Mrs. Frazier, her dark eyes brimming, is resting on the arm of Dr.
Time and again, as a boy, he had played at walking post in front of the doctor's quarters, punctiliously saluting officers in the daytime, and sternly challenging after dark before being hustled off to bed.
An elongated wooden box painted dark green, divided into four compartments, with lids opening at the top, extended almost from front to rear of the platform on the west side of the tent.
There was something pathetic in the big dark eyes as he, a First Class man in years, but a no class man in law, stood irresolute in the company street the day they marched into camp.
The locker was the name given the dark green chest, and the "locker" had neither lock nor key.
Yonder, where the surf frets the shore and pencils a dark line of kelp, look for the star-fish and the limpet, and for mosses in ultramarine and carmine such as no florist can match from his garden.
That mountain lifting itsdark crest so kingly into the clouds, is Loma Prieta, the highest crest of the Coast Range.
Pray, how long does it take a pony to amble over three miles in a pitch-dark night?
And long life to the pony that mistook our sober mission for one of wooing and frolic on a dark and foggy night.
Nor was this escape a mere accident, but rather the result of a providential superintendence; as would appear from a passage of history in the dark age itself.
They thoroughly enjoyed the new sensation of light and warmth as compared with the dark and chilly refuge of a tree-top, and they talked much of this new element and its mysterious character.
As dark was coming on, the fire burned brightly on the rocky bench in front of the cave.
It was indeed the fire, with its warmth and cheer, so different from the old days when each had shivered in the fork of a tree or had spent the night in a dark and noisome cavern.
Sadik racked his brain to think who in the palace or in official life might be made the scapegoat, upon whom the dark spirit in the heart of the Khedive might be turned.
Thou goest not by dark ways to deeds for thine own self.
It can scarcely be said that Dicky was greatly surprised when Mahommed Yeleb, the servant of "William William Sowerby," came rapping at his door one hot noon-day with a dark tale of disaster to his master.
Because he was a stranger and an infidel, so has he been told of dark things done to those who desecrate our faith.
She realised what a prodigious liar Shelek Pasha was; for, talking benignly of equitable administration as he did, she recalled the dark stories she had heard of rapine and cruel imprisonment in this same mudirieh.
There was talk of gilded palaces, Saracenic splendours and dark suggestions from the Arabian Nights.
That dark little room I described as so convenient during a terrific thunderstorm or the prowling investigations of a burglar, began after a while to get mysterious and uncanny, and I disliked, nay, dreaded to enter it after dark.
The assailant turned and fled, not to the ready egress of the front door, but down the dark stairway to the basement.
Sylvia Graham felt, suddenly, that a hand, sure and firm, had been outstretched to guide her on a dark path.
I have my deep and dark suspicions of our present modes of pronunciation, all three of 'em.
As low dark clouds concealing The things one dare not see, So grimly dark and ominous Hung low each shadowy tree.
Pennants of gold were unrolled, They told of sun; Night's pain with the dark and the rain, Was over and done.
LILIS We have forgiven you because you are so fair, Eloquent by virtue of your dark enchanting eyes, Evil to your heart of hearts, shall we blame or care, You are very beautiful, and love has made you wise.
Give me the sun of your smile to be fire to me, Give me the moon when the passion is gone, Give me the light to be dream and desire to me Down the dark alleys that lead to the dawn.
Striving for Beauty, dark philosophy, Or the obscure and purple deeps of truth, How shall they know their one great verity, The answer to their queries and their youth?
THE SLAVE WOMAN Her eyes are dark with unknown deeps, Old woes and new despair, Her shackled spirit feels the thong That breaks her body bare.
Out in the dark of the moonless sky, The rope was round his neck, "'Tis the torque of gold from her throat so cold, Why should I rue or reck?
Night or day, dark or light, Jeff Warren was always before me.
Revolver in hand, and indignantly quivering in every inch of his fat body, Hoag glided from the dark into the light.
The day the furniture come we all worked till away after dark gettin' things straight.
Paul noted the drawn whiteness of her face and the dark rings about her despairing eyes.
Hoag heard his mother-in-law speaking in a low, explanatory tone, as she led the doctor along the dark hall.
It was quitedark when he had unloaded the wagon at the tannery and driven on past Hoag's pretentious home to the antiquated cottage in which he lived.
Besides, the tall, slender man, with dark hair and eyes and waxed mustache, who had no weapon in sight, was calmly addressing him.
In a storm of hot pity he glanced toward his father, who in the dark corner lay as still as the cracked plastering, against which his grim profile was cast.
From its dark depths rose the dismal hooting of a night-owl, the shrill piping of a tree-frog.
From every fence-corner or dark clump of bushes on the roadside he expected to see armed men arise and confront him.
Then there was silence, broken by a subdued muttering under the dark sheds.
Each of our merchant vessels, it has been said is like an unarmed man walking down a dark lane infested with armed highwaymen.
Soon after dark the sea became confused and angry; I furled the tiny reef sail and put out the sea anchor.
Rocks and shoals and icebergs and dark nights and fogs and the making of difficult harbours and winds of strength "8" on the Beaufort scale, are not things that habitually occupy his mind.
The Dark Ages would no doubt have described the use of the new weapons as savagery.
How they found the balers and bucket in the dark I don't know, but they managed to free the boat, whilst I shifted the sea anchor to the stern and made a tiny bit of sail and got her away before the wind.
The boys, to protect their clothes, wear outer suits of dark brown and black duck, and round paper caps.
I stood there in the dark loneliness of the silent hills and the howling wolf, and looked down at the brute with little pity and a good deal of resentment.
The memory of Rankin's pained countenance lingers with me yet, and cheers me in many a darkhour when there's nothing else to laugh over.
She is dressed in a light green tunic, without sleeves, over which she wears a dark red mantle.
An earthen vase was found, in the cellars, containing wine, which now resembles a lump of porous dark violet-coloured glass.
They consist of birds and beasts; among which some green parrots may be seen very distinctly; the ground is generally a rich dark red.
Under these reliefs several openings lead to a dark subterranean passage, of six feet by four, into the rock.
From these real or imaginary classic remains, we entered a damp and dark corridor, the ceiling of which is still adorned with some of the most beautiful specimens, that now remain, of the paintings of antiquity.
A pair of dark blue eyes examined me with good-humored curiosity.
Bates opened another window and surveyed thedark landscape with me.
I was amusing myself with the idea that my identity was a dark mystery to her.
He moved through the dark room with perfect ease, struck a match, lighted a taper and went swiftly and softly about.
That night, as I was going quite late to bed, bearing a candle to light me through the dark hall to my room, I heard a curious sound, as of some one walking stealthily through the house.
Being fired upon is disagreeable enough, but waiting in the dark for the shot is worse.
Then the hands of a man clutched the farther edge of the table, and slowly and evidently with infinite difficulty a figure rose and the dark face of Bates, with eyes blurred and staring strangely, confronted me.
She wore the dark gown in which I had seen her last, and a cloak was drawn over her shoulders.
Presently, on the right loomed a dark barrier, and I put out my hand and touched a wall of rough stone that rose to a height of about eight feet.
It’s his friends that shoot in the dark that give us the trouble.
It was growing dark and a maid lighted the oil lamps.
I grinned with real pleasure at the sound of this mishap, hurried into the great library, which was as dark as a well, and, opening one of the long windows, stepped out on the balcony.
As usual, after dark they poured out of their castles in the air to enjoy their nightly frolic.
From where they sat, on the top of the woodpile, Master Meadow Mouse and his callers caught sight of a dark shape that moved stealthily towards them through the shadows.
This proposal was readily agreed to; and, the evening being calm and still, though dark and cloudy, they sauntered for some distance along the road, in the direction which led out of the village.
He wore a blue bonnet, from beneath which his dark hair flowed out over his shoulders, long, lank, and dishevelled.
The cell to which I was consigned was dark and loathsome, as all Scotch jails then were, and as many of them still are.
This dark hall, that little flickering lamp, and my presence at this late hour, may well produce an illusion; but I deal in no fancies.
The man who loves it not hath his affections "dark as Erebus.
He therefore returned; the torn floor caught his eye; the planks were again lifted, and a blazing torch was soon held down into the dark hole.
Jose's mother was dressed in the same kind of costume, except that her kerchief was of soft dark red silk; and she wore her chief treasure, a heavy gold chain and cross.
Eager troops of girls came also, in full short skirts, in bodices of dark red or yellow worn over white waists, the large sleeves newly starched and ironed.
A SLIM slip of a boy, with dark brown eyes and pale olive skin, walked at the head of a pair of fawn-colored oxen as he turned homeward from the market-place of a small village in the north of Portugal.
Sixty or seventy persons were sitting in the dim recesses of the room, looking like dark shadows, resolved to await the result.
Some dark enchantress has bequeathed To thee her magic art, And thou hast bound me with thy spell, And stolen all my heart.
Witnesses who had been forgotten and had sunk from sight, and were supposed to be dead, sprang into life, all having some dark deed to record.
Why don't you see we are just entering the dark mouth of the tunnel?
The wind blows up fresher and fresher; it will be darkas pitch too, when night fairly comes on.
The chamber was large, fitted up as a library, and filled with massive book-cases of dark wood, elaborately carved, which gave a sombre appearance to the room.
A mystery has ever hung and ever must continue to hang, over the fate of King Roderick, in that dark and doleful day of Spain.
He looked up, and observed a dim figure just inside the door, cowering as if with fear; but it was so dark that he could not distinguish more than its mere outline.
Earth unto earth;' 'tis well That sordid earth should pass to earth again: In those dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell, Why should the shrine remain?
He looks to the grave only as thatdark abyss which knows neither thought nor care; where the past is forgotten; where the future ends.
Thy passport white at Heaven's gate unroll, (No dark hand-writing e'er hath soiled that scroll.
Peter, do you see that tuft ofdark moss in the crotch of that largest maple: well, I am going to shoot at it for sport, so here goes!
Then far ahead loomed the dark outline of a building.
Last night--" The woman wore a small black hat and a long, old-fashioned dark coat which came nearly to her ankles.
In the dark forest it would be very easy for her to elude the officers.
At the end of the street the railroad station loomed as a dark blur, reminding her of Jerry.
I have a revolver--" So dark was the stairway that Penny could not know whether or not the man was bluffing.
Opening the lid, she held up a pair of dark horn-rimmed glasses.
Penny thought she saw a small, dark object lying on the ground.
Midway there Penny paused to stare up at the dark windows of the second floor.
As Joe shifted gears, the girls observed a dark figure approaching the estate from down the road.
Penny glanced toward the big house, dark and majestic in its setting of evergreens.
Certainly the principal tower of the Castle, in its dark red stone, looked uncommonly fine and commanding, and about it flew the martlets that "most breed and haunt" where the air is delicate.
Sir Edmund was aware as soon as he took his seat by Molly at the breakfast-table that she knew why Lady Groombridge was pouring out tea with a dark countenance.
She reached the top of the many steps with little loss of breath; she turned to the right into the dark passage that led to her own room, passed her own door, and put the key in the lock of the one next to it.
That he was still lovable, and that he had no dark thoughts of her, had been such joy, but only a passing joy.
She could feel the intensely familiar touch of the soft, dark hand; she could see the adoring love of the dark eyes with their passionate anger at the separation.
What she could not understand was a sense of moral darkness, like a great, looming grey cloud, sometimes simply dark and heavy, and at other times a cloud electric with coming danger.
And with a certain simplicity Edmund looked again at the moon above him, all the more glorious because secret and dark things were moving stealthily under the trees in the lower world.
It was a dark night, and there was nothing that could have taken her out of doors, but that she was out could not be doubted.
These big, dark canvases by some forgotten Italian of the school of Veronese, gave the room something of the rich gloom of a Venetian palace.
Edmund rose and smiled, with his peculiar, paternal admiration, at Molly, whose darklooks were at their very best set in the complete whiteness of her hat and dress.
Molly, while a deep flush of colour rose in her dark cheeks.
The blackness of her hair had a strange force from the white transparent veil flowing over it, and a flush of deep colour was in the dark skin.
In the midst of the extraordinarily wizened face were great dark eyes full of expression, with a fierce brightness in them.
Rose, as she heard Molly's name, found herself looking quite directly into very unexpected and very remarkable grey eyes with dark lashes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
