If she gives the key away, she will fail to use judgment in conversation and darken her own reputation.
To dream of eating raisins, implies that discouragements will darken your hopes when they seem about to be realized.
And at the same time, the fond mother, lying upon her couch, had her shadows to darken the happy thoughts that were brightening her life.
That's a lie," he growled, and then he laughed grimly, but only for his face to darken into a savage scowl.
For such multiplied transgressions God will cause the sun to go down at noon, and darken the earth in the clear day.
Remember also that it is not the grosser passions and forms of vice alone that darken the understanding and alienate the heart from the truth.
O shrined above the skies, Frown not, clear brow, Darken not, holy eyes!
I have said good-bye to Garthowen, and will never darken its doors again.
In his own opinion there were but two hindrances to his progress, two shadows from the past to darken his path, and these were his obscure birth and his love for Morva, for this he had not yet succeeded in crushing.
As the Turkish wars were drawing to an end, more melancholy portents began to darken the horizon.
All such illustrations are better adapted to darken and confound the subject, than to throw light upon it.
Hence we shall utterly demolish it, that neither a fragment nor a shadow of it may remain to darken and delude the minds of men.
The crash that destroyed their national prosperity and existence would shake the most solid things and darken the brightest.
A very, very little grain of dye stuff will darken miles of a river, and make it incapable of reflecting the blue sky and the sparkling stars.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10.
To bid a man pray, when he should be exhorted to believe, is to darken the clearness of the divine counsel, and to narrow the fulness of the divine grace.
Papists do retain, so that we may far more easily use the ceremonies as a mist to darken the eyes of the Papists, than they could have used those forbidden rites as a mist to darken the eyes of pagans.
Let the sweet heavens endure, Not close and darken above me Before I am quite quite sure That there is one to love me!
Through the drip of dying leaves, the chill of dull November now began todarken over us as we turned the corner of Chowne's own road, and faced his lonely mansion.
But I think he was very sleepy, for I hardly understood what he said; and as he appeared extremely tired when he went to bed, I told Curtis to darken the room again, and leave him quiet.
I have no power, Henrietta, no learning, no strength of reason to remove the doubts that so fearfully darken these your last hours.
And therefore they say no more but that it is not yet known whether it be true or not; but they say it more obscurely, and darken the evidence of the truth with the same words by which they endeavour to hide their own ignorance.
Kings earthly are well-favoured little clay-gods, time's idols; but a sight of our invisible King shall decry and darken all the glory of this world.
But I know this is but the vapours that arise out of a quarrelous and unbelieving heart to darken the wisdom of God; and your fault is just mine, that I cannot believe my Lord's bare and naked word.
But this is our exercise daily, that guiltiness shall overmist and darken assurance.
Left light tells tales of us we desire little to hear; but since it is not without God that light sitteth neighbour to will (a lawless lord), no marvel that such a neighbour should leaven our judgment, anddarken our light.
It's quite true that when I left here I didn't mean ever to darken your doors again.
Always ill, always sad, she seemed to darken his mind with the wings that beat ominously.
When we pray for the erring, the careless and indifferent who never darken a church door, let us not forget the selfish people who do darken the church doors, and darken her altars as well!
As for my part, I tell you fairly, cousin or no cousin, he shall never darken my doors again.
It would darken the joy of our own escape if any of the rest were lost.
I would not mine again should darken thine, Goodnight, true brother.
The main or upper story has iron balconies which project over the narrow streets and darken them.
In sending for catalogue and terms, ask for the paper used todarken windows if the lantern is to be used in the afternoon.
Seeing herself so different from those she loved the best, the fair Water-Lily often wished she could darken her skin and hair, that she might more resemble others.
Opening the door, he told her never to darken it again--never more should she dare to show herself within his house.
Children may darken the hearts and lives of their parents.
And when he come home a few minutes ago and saw I hadn't got it cut, he ordered me out of the house and told me never to darken his door again till I'd got my hair cut!
