Fate stood between us; a darker and more inexorable fate than you, in your kindly experience of life, could imagine.
The darker shades of Vasari's picture have been purposely omitted from these pages.
Female--upper plumage sooty brown; throat pale brown withdarker spots; breast reddish brown passing into dark ash brown; bill and legs dusky.
Its plumage differs in being much darker in the fore part of the body, while the tail is of a brighter red.
In young birds the tail is dark brown, and the beak and cere are of a darker hue.
Even as the first object appeared, another approached the cabin and moved to the protection of the darker shadows of the stable.
When the darker shadow had passed beyond his vision he dropped to the ground and listened with his ear against the wet grass and earth.
On the planet Jupiter it is as much as thirty times darker than with us.
The twenty-four newly discovered planets have days that are nearly six times darker than ours.
Zara's eyes becamedarker and deeper in the gravity of her intense meditation.
Zara gazed seriously at me, and her large eyes seemed to grow darker with the intensity of her thought.
It has been rebuilt since, and no one would know that the arch had ever been blown up, but from the extreme whiteness of the new arch, contrasting with the darker color of the old ones.
Quietly then, and soberly, did the good lady sit, eyeing the brooms and brushes as they grew darker and darker with the approach of the evening, and consoling herself with the certainty that her release must eventually take place.
A few attendants flitted hastily here and there across the dark courts and still darker vestibule, anxious to get away, and the watchers only were all that would soon remain.
A few clouds, getting gradually darker to west and south-west.
The color of their skin was not black, but a dark brown, scarcely any darker than that of Filipinos who have been much exposed to the sun; and only a few of them had woolly hair.
This is a circumstance I have observed in many seaports, and in the neighborhood of Manila; but, in the districts which are almost entirely unvisited by the Spaniards, the natives are muchdarker and of purer race.
But if the black peoples are eliminated, there remains on many islands at least an element to be differentiated from the Malay, chiefly through the darker skin color, greater orthocephaly, and more wavy, quite crimped hair.
Darker it grew; and darker fears Came o'er her troubled mind; When now, a short quick step she hears Come patting close behind.
The twilight grew darker and fireflies began to twinkle.
But our gentility is a little self-conscious, for we live on the very frontier of a region, darker in complexion, which is far from scrupulous in deportment.
His back was a dark, dusky, olive-green, with mottlings that were still darker and duskier.
On they crept with stealthy steps through bush and bulrush to get a nearer view in the bewildering shadows, which were growing darker and darker every moment.
Underlying the horrible case I thought I could perceive even darker things--a mystery within a mystery; a horror overtopping horror.
But assuming the latter explanation to be the correct one, how muchdarker became the mystery of the man's presence and purpose.
As I talked I saw his expression grow darker and darker, until finally: "There's something wrong!
Hawkins retorted with a savage energy which displayed the darker side of the man's character and the one which I had suspected to lie beneath his rather sinister merriment.
Their color was not unpleasant, and the inhabitants of Hayti, in particular, were said to be very little darker than the people of Spain.
I tell thee, Pepe," said the most vociferous and most earnest of the speakers, "that the night is not darker than the future of this crew.
Near it, however, is a truly mysterious and interesting object called the coal sack: it is a black patch in the sky distinctly darker than all the rest of the heavens.
In general colour it resembles a full red mahogany, with darker red veins.
It varies much in colour from a dark olive green to a light yellowish brown, the darker cross bands being sometimes almost indistinguishable.
Their colour is darker than that of the forest kangaroo, approaching almost to that of a fox, and they seat themselves in the grass like a hare or a rabbit.
The face of the moon keeps brightening as the lesser two twinkle into darker lustre; and now, though day is still lingering, we feel that it is Night.
If the forest was dark to Steve, it was darker to blind Ned Corbett, but he at any rate was unbeaten still.
Still the bride kept up her smiles, and cheerfully returned the healths that were drunk to her; but old Jack was not unmoved; a cloud hung on his brow, which grew darker and darker as the hour advanced, and the bridegroom yet tarried.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
