There he was, flashing a message out of our prison by an invisible ray that shot across the Cimmerian darkness to the point where we knew that our friends were waiting anxiously.
I surmised that it must have been the thing which Garrick had brought from his office, but in the darkness I could not see what it was, nor was there a chance to ask a question.
He had disappeared into the darkness toward the road, where he had despatched the car a few minutes before.
He took another quick look at the light gleaming from the house in the darkness ahead of us.
None of us had been able to catch a glimpse of his figure, muffled, in the darkness when he shot us.
I looked about in amazement, first at the empty car and then into the darkness on either side of the road.
Yet inside the house into which we had just broken it was all darkness and silence.
He went down like a stone, his senses reeling under that frightful impact and yet half conscious of the fact that some one must have come up behind him in the darkness and struck him with a heavy weight.
Both of us must make a mental map of everything we see so as to feel sure of our ground when darkness comes.
It was quite too late for either of them to think of slipping off, since the light from the interior of the shack poured through the open door and dissipated the friendly darkness in that especial vicinity.
If only he could lay hands on them they might be made to serve again but the darkness would make this problematical.
A man may enrich himself with all the treasures of science and literature; but if he does not know God, he is in the darkness of primeval night.
So also there may be various forms of darkness; some more hideous than others; but there is darkness because God is not known.
Now, the moment the eye is turned off from Christ darkness must set in--ofttimes darkness that may be felt.
If there be any darkness or uncertainty as to this, he will be wholly unable to understand or appreciate the various aspects of "Christian Perfection" which are yet to pass in review before us.
A man may go down to hell, into the blackness and darkness of an eternal night, with all the dogmas of theology at his fingers' ends.
It is our deep and thorough conviction that the harboring of a single infidel suggestion is the first step on that inclined plane which leads straight down to the dark and terrible abyss of atheism--down to the blackness of darkness forever.
Nay; though, most assuredly, in that garden the shadows were lengthening, the darkness was thickening, the gloom was deepening.
It makes the heart bleed to think of the thousands of precious souls kept in darkness and bondage when they ought to be walking in the light and liberty which flow from a perfectly purged conscience.
Let him not be satisfied with anything short of this grand reality--this turning from darkness to light, from the power of Satan, and from the worship of idols, to God.
Sue said excitedly, pointing into thedarkness on one side of the cavern.
Again from the darkness behind them the crimson rays clove, but this time were wide of their mark.
For even as they leaped forward a rising clamor of hissing cries and rush of feet was coming from behind as scores of Martians poured out into the darkness from the great cone-building.
They were racing now up over the great arch of the canal's metal bridge, and then scuttling smoothly off it and along the broad metal street through which they had fled in darkness hours before.
Running off the bridge's smooth way, the two found themselves stumbling on through the darkness over more metal paving, and then over soft ground.
He opened his eyes and stared up into a darkness to which it took him some time to accustom himself.
And as Randall twisted in it to strike frantically down through the darkness at whatever thing of horror held them, his clenched fist met but the cold smooth skin of some big, soft-bodied creature!
I heard a disappointed whisper go up from the outer darkness where, but a moment before, we had been.
She backed from the window; we could see her only as a white blob in the darkness of the basement room.
By midnight, with their dull-red beams illumining the darkness of the canyon streets, they had reached the Battery, and spread northward beyond the northern limits of Central Park.
Randall sent their machine racing again toward one of the upward tunnels, and as the long mechanism began to climb smoothly up the darkness he heard Lanier agonizing beside him.
A tall dark wall seemed suddenly to loom up out of the darkness some distance ahead of the two.
In the darkness of night the Martian city stretched away to their right, its massive dark cone-structures outlined by points of glowing ruddy light here and there upon them.
But a moment they glimpsed it and then were in darkness again as the tunnel passed through the radio-active strata and lower.
Though darkness reign In gloomy silence o'er the slumbering earth, The hastening dawn will bring the light again, And call the glories of the day to birth!
In absolute darkness they descended steps which were covered with a sort of slime, and then, by striking a light, found themselves in front of a closed door.
Darkness had closed in around her, and she clung to the banisters to save herself from the gulf which seemed to yawn before her feet.
O'Gree had rushed up without a light, and was battling desperately in the darkness with a score of pillow-fighters, roaring out threats the while at the top of his voice.
His thoughts were fixed upon one place; a great longing drew him forth, into the darkness and the rain of the streets, onwards in a fixed direction.
No dream of human perfectibility, but the expected advent of the true Ruler of the earth, is the relief to the palpable darkness of the existing world.
Thus died, in darkness and dungeon, one other East Tennessee martyr!
The best time was at supper, which was brought a little before sundown, and by starting then, we would soon have the cover of darkness to conceal our flight.
Thus through the visions of night and darkness I passed rapidly on, for now I felt refreshed and endowed with new strength.
Darkness was falling rapidly, and not one of our comrades was visible.
Then in the gathering darkness the voice of song would ring out, as glad and free as if it was not strained through prison bars.
Darkness gradually closed in, and on we went amid the laughter and oaths of the Confederates, many of whom were very much intoxicated.
In the darkness I broke through the ice and escaped with some difficulty.
All the force goes into the light, while man’s devices for defeating darkness waste as much as ninety-nine per cent.
The fourth Indian darted into the darkness of the wood and escaped, although Whetzel pursued him for some distance.
The Lord let us meet again," he muttered feverishly, but he at once opened his eyes and sought in the darkness for water.
If you remember at the Last Supper Peter said to Jesus, 'I am ready to go with Thee into darkness and unto death.
As a rule the Ukleevo peasants did not go to Tsybukin's to work, and they had to hire strangers, and now in the darkness it seemed as though there were men sitting there with long black beards.
In the darkness I did not see Agafya's face, but from the movement of her shoulders and head it seemed to me that she could not take her eyes off Savka's face.
Time flew swiftly by; imperceptibly the day passed, imperceptibly the darknesscame on.
It would not let the snow settle on the ground, and whirled it round in the darkness at random.
The thought that he had to go out into the cold darkness sent a chill shudder all down him, and he winced.
II The first outline visible in the darkness was a blue circle--the little round window; then little by little Gusev could distinguish his neighbour in the next hammock, Pavel Ivanitch.
And again the darkness was about him and his fingers began to be numb.
In the darkness there was a muffled thud of timid footsteps, and the silhouette of a woman appeared out of the copse.
It seemed to him that the cold that had suddenly come on had destroyed the order and harmony of things, that nature itself felt ill at ease, and that was why the evening darkness was falling more rapidly than usual.
Overhead deep sky, bright stars, peace and stillness, exactly as at home in the village, below darkness and disorder.
When the night closed in, the darkness was hideous, scarcely any object was discernible.
It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me?
Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
At length I came to the conclusion, that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God.
A flash of orange light stabbed thedarkness and a heavy pistol bullet sang past his head.
The detective raised his weapon to reply, but three more flashes from thedarkness were followed by the vicious cracks of large caliber automatics.
A fresh beam of light made a path through thedarkness and Carnes could see his opponents lying prone on the marsh.
It was not necessary that deeds ofdarkness should be shrouded in the clouds of night, for the darkness of the deeds themselves was considered a sufficient protection.
There was still darkness round me; but the hollows of the vaults gleamed with a red light, and showed me the strange and hideous forms of their building.
Without their conquests and their defeats, thou wert indarkness still.
Did not every poet feel his young affections withered, and despair and darkness cast upon his soul?
What they would do under the veil of darkness they strenuously avoid when its shelter is removed.
Through the warm darkness of the June night came the hum of a great city, a subdued, murmurous sound, strangely unfamiliar to one of the girls, who was in the city for the first time in all her country life.
So Marcia brought her violin, and out into the darkness of the night floated the dreamy, tender melody of the "Traeumerei.
III When in thedarkness over me The fourhanded mole shall scrape, Plant thou no dusky cypresstree, Nor wreathe thy cap with doleful crape, But pledge me in the flowing grape.
I found him when my years were few; A shadow on the graves I knew, And darkness in the village yew.
I go, but I return: I would I were The pilot of the darknessand the dream.
There was no motion in the dumb dead air, Not any song of bird or sound of rill; Gross darkness of the inner sepulchre Is not so deadly still As that wide forest.
Some honey-converse feeds thy mind, Some spirit of a crimson rose In love with thee forgets to close His curtains, wasting odorous sighs All night long on darkness blind.
She had been possessed with the idea that someone was stealthily following her and under the light of the depot lamps her first act was to swing around and stare into the darkness from which she had emerged.
Then again she reached out in the darkness and felt for her scissors.
Far back into the darkness of time, the folk-lore of Somo cast a glimmering light.
Was Van Horn's darkness as the darkness of the blue-bottle fly that his fly-flapping maid smashed and disrupted in mid-flight of the air?
No more doughty nor daring was Columbus, venturing all that he was to the unknown, than was Jerry in venturing this jungle-darkness of black Malaita.
He wanted to know what he guessed they might know, now that they had long since gone into the darkness that rounds the end of life.
Had he passed into the darkness for ever into which the beast passed, into which passed the speared crocodile, the hooked bonita, the netted mullet, the slain pig that was fat to eat?
And thedarkness of unconsciousness welled over his bright little love- suffering brain, so that it was a limp and motionless puppy that the black boy dragged into his canoe.
In the darkness he could not see, but his heart warmed with knowledge that Jerry's tail was surely bobbing.
The rays of his genius penetrated the darkness of popular ideals; the hollow pretences of Philistinism filled his ardent soul with disgust, and pain.
I can handle the boat all right in this sea and wind, while the darkness possesses no special terror.
Before it flickered out into darkness my eyes made two discoveries--the opening of a dark passage to the left of the bunks, and a ghastly hand protruding from the upper berth.
There is about an hour of darkness left--sufficient to enable me to run this cutter in behind Cosmos Island safely out of sight.
My position afforded as good a view forward as the darkness would permit, and likewise enabled me to see into the dimly lit cabin below.
I must keep Henley concealed and silent until darkness rendered our escape possible.
The intense darkness puzzled me, not a gleam of light showing anywhere.
It was fully an hour after the coming of darkness before I was disturbed.
Yet there was a chance that what had occurred in this cabin could be kept concealed for a few hours, untildarkness gave us better opportunity for successful action.
In spite of the darkness I was not greatly hampered, as everything had been stored away in shipshape manner, and came conveniently to hand.
Whenever the moon's light was obscured, nothing but blank darkness met the eye, the line of stockades themselves vanishing from sight.
The garrison within the block-house saw the November day draw to an end, and the darkness of night closing in over river, forest and clearing, with sad forebodings of what was to come before the rising of the morrow's sun.
Under such circumstances, the dead warrior must wait until the darkness of the night, which is the chosen season of his race for carrying out his designs against all enemies.
Ned Preston could not hear the slightest sound, and where the darkness was so deep it was hard work to keep informed of his movements.
Remembering the openings which he had seen in the stockade before the darknessbecame so intense, Jo reached out his right hand and run it along the pickets, so as not to miss them.
Every one who was looking out in the darkness saw that he spoke the appalling truth.
The twists of flame made the air about the cabin luminous, and the millions of snow-flakes twinkled and glistened with starlike brilliancy, as they came out of the darkness and fluttered in the glow for a moment, ere they vanished again.
In thedarkness they had come thus close without either suspecting the presence of the other.
Out in the darkness beyond, he had parted from Deerfoot the Shawanoe, the Indian youth who was so deeply attached to him.
The profound darkness and the skill of the hunter would enable him to do all that could be done by any one, under the circumstances.
I fear is like a sudden flame shot from Th' expiring taper, darkness will ensue, And double night I dread enclose us round.
Rohan groped in thedarkness for the basket, and Jannedik uttered a low cry of pain, rolled over at his feet into the moonlight, revealing a terrible bullet-wound in its side, and quivered and died.
Piles of cloud, whose darkness was palpable even in the midnight, covered the holy hill.
As the rolling thunder died away we heard in the silence and the darkness the sound of a bell.
With that a great darkness and horror fell upon Christian; he could no longer see before him, and he was in much fear that he would perish in the river, and never enter in at the gate.
It was difficult in the darknessto distinguish what was going on now.
Thus rebuked, Sancho endeavoured to move, but fell flat on the earth like a great tortoise; while in the darkness the others made a clash with their swords and shields, and trampled upon the prone governor, who quite gave himself up for dead.
