A profound anatomist of the heart, he was singularly free from morbidness, and in his darkestspeculations concerning evil was robustly right-minded.
If Clive's sword conquered the Indian empire, it was the brain of Hastings that planned the system of civil administration, and his genius that saved the empire in its darkest hour.
We are too much in the habit of looking at falsehood in its darkest associations, and through the color of its worst purposes.
Have you noticed those long, black, quivering tongues that dart out and in from the bodies of the darkest clouds?
Yet against this theory was to be set his knowledge of the sagacity of Sailor, who, he believed, was quite intelligent enough to find his way back to the camp from the uttermost extremity of the island in the darkest night.
I Holy Spirit, come with power; Let Thy light, in darkest hour, Shine upon our onward way.
II May He restrain from words of sin; For bitter strife give calm within; Veil from our eyes the garish light, That lures the soul to darkest night.
The squatter sighed, but raising no objection, he began to serve his guests, while Ellen retired into the darkest corner of the shanty.
The missionary stood motionless in the darkest corner, and listened.
He retired into thedarkest corner of the room as Rondeau shuffled across to the writing-desk.
He can see in the darkest night," and the girl's voice sank to an awed whisper, "and he can hear through a stone wall.
To begin with, she could not quite grasp the reality of this ray of hope, which came to her at the darkest hour of her misery.
Papa was the first to realise what was happening; he had never lost his presence of mind even during the darkest moment of this terrible time, and he said quite calmly and steadily now: "What must we do?
Then, as the prospect looked the darkest and the long line of the British formed to make their last advance, Lord Stirling rode up to our line.
The fulfilment of this promise being afterwards insisted on, led to the establishment of the Inquisition in her dominions, the darkest spot that exists upon her character.
The winning tenderness of her mild, subdued glance had a power which could tranquillize Napoleon in his darkest moods.
Then comes thedarkest episode in this nobleman's career.
In the darkest moment, however, with the locals beating Oakdale back against the goal-line, Fred Merwin fumbled.
On these dreaded occasions his eyes grew black as darkest night and flashed fire as lightning rends the thundercloud.
Within wind of Bouille himself, in a manner; and the darkest of midsummer nights favouring us!
The Egalite Family is at the darkest depths of the Nadir.
You see, the darkest night will be chosen, and every man will be wearin' a life-belt, and will have a raft close handy to swim to.
But June and July, 1864, were the darkest hours of the Union cause and of Lincoln, its champion.
The dramatic parallel which the writer establishes between the savagery of Darkest Africa and the suffering and sin of Darkest England, will arrest attention, and will of itself make the book popular.
There is a still darker France than the darkest England, a darker Italy than the darkest France, and deeper depths of darkness still in India.
My Dear General Booth--I have read your book "In Darkest England" with the greatest interest, also with thrills of horror that things should be as bad as they are.
There is a buoyant enthusiasm in every page, a sanguine optimism at which the youngest among us might marvel, combined with a familiar acquaintance with the saddest and darkest phenomena of existence.
It is the successes of the past that encourage General Booth to face the problem in the spirit of hopefulness that breathes through every page of "Darkest England.
He pitied the cold heart which could read and not be stirred by "Darkest England.
Some passages of "In Darkest England and the Way Out" are certainly capable of being misconstrued.
One of thedarkest shadows on the Indian horizon is that of debt.
Count Seckendorff begs leave to acknowledge by command of her Majesty the Empress Frederick the receipt of General Booth's book in "Darkest England and the way out.
Probably the darkest tragedy of the nest is enacted when a snake plunders it.
They lead the darkest kind of pioneer life, even in our gardens and orchards, and under the walls of our houses.
There is always a slight gleam on the water, Uncle Nathan says, even in the darkest night, and the dusky form of the moose can be distinctly seen upon it.
How oft in battle's darkest hour They saved Granada's city proud From yielding to the Christian's power.
I worship at thy sanctuary, sweet, My beauty, with large eyes of darkest night.
The moon, in full lustre, shone out from a sky undimmed by a single cloud, and every object on which its light fell stood out clear and defined, casting the darkest of shadows behind it.
I had not the courage to move; the night fell, and found me still where he had laid me during my faint, my face buried in my hands, my soul drowned in the darkest apprehensions.
Thus, even in this hour of her darkest bitterness and grief, a gleam of comfort struggled to Jess's breast just as the first ray of dawn was struggling through the stormy night.
We have picked up something of half a dozen Indian dialects; we can use their weapons almost as well as they can themselves; and as to our skins, they are as brown as that of the darkest of them.
In thedarkest days of the struggle the people never lost faith in the ultimate triumph of the Union.
The precise extent of Bolingbroke's secret negotiations with the exiled Prince is still one of the darkest portions of the history of that time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darkest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
