They stood still and shivered; for it seemed as if gray Time were calling them back from their sunny youth, far down into the chill and darksome vale of years.
The man understood and started down the darksome tunnel as though he were glad to go, Leonard holding his robe with one hand, while with the other he pressed the muzzle of the loaded rifle against the back of his neck.
Now he crawled into the passage and commenced his darksome journey towards the home of the dead Water Dweller, though what he was to do when he got there he did not know.
To be pulled, for and through love to some vain lust, from the everlasting gates of glory, and caused to be swallowed up for it in the belly of hell, and made to lodge for ever in the darksome chambers of death: there is the piercing sting.
Where's he whose goodly face doth warm and heal, And show us what the darksome nights conceal?
A twelvemonth did his darksome mind Plot for the dreadful deed.
Again they went, through brier and through thicket, Into the darksome wood; Again he dropped his clues along the pathway Behind him when he could.
So shines the young unclouded moon at last, Greeting the sun, its darksome season past.
There magic herbs pour forth their streaming light From mossy caverns through the darksome night, And lend a torch to guide the trembling maid Where waits her lover in the leafy shade.
Nor yet why this errant damsel should in the darksome night-time find herself alone on this hilltop with the tents of her retinue standing empty and silent about.
Lord of suns, and eyes that see, Shine into me, see and show; Leave no darksome spot in me Where thou dost not shining go.
But that thou mayst not joy to see me thus, So as thou e'er shalt 'scape this darksome realm Open thine ears and hear what I forebode.
Wherefore if thou escape this darksome clime, Returning to behold the radiant stars, When thou with pleasure shalt retrace the past, See that of us thou speak among mankind.
Happy day, and happy doom, May the gladsome world exclaim, When the darksome cave became Saint Daria's sacred tomb".
And blest be pitying heaven's decree, That makes thedarksome cave to be Daria's tomb, her place of rest!
Bear Chrysanthus now away To a tower of darksome gloom Which shall be his living tomb.
And happy can that strange fate be That gives this darksomecave to me As monument of my sad life?
Because I thought thou wert One who in a darksome cavern Died to show thy love for me.
And I also, since the sentence Gives to me the full assurance Of a happiness most certain On the day this darksome cave Doth entomb me in its centre.
For an instant the sunlight shone on his white and fluttering robe, then from the depths of thatdarksome place floated up the sound of a heavy fall, and all was still.
Why, it was here that he had been brought to die, and through that very door the false Rosamund had come to bid him farewell, who now returned to greet her in this same darksome den.
Despair has stricken them dumb; for, moving along that darksome path, they feel as martyrs being conducted to stake or scaffold.
If one tried, it would soon be snapped up by the great saurian, master of this darksome domain.
Therefore the darksome atmosphere is not the place of punishment for the demons.
Much more, therefore, is it the demons' place of punishment; and consequently not the darksome atmosphere.
Roseate golden clouds were marshalled around the summit of the snow-crowned alp, and even the darksome forest aisles responded to the divine informing waves of light and life.
Then the mountaineer quitted the road, and plunging down the steep into the darksome forest, disappeared from sight.
See ye yonder mountain-mist approaching, From the darksome mountain travelling hither?
To a Singer Beneath thy Midas touch life's sullen grays Are thrilled to sudden gold; as some far gleam From wings of Helios athwart thy dream Irradiates for thee earth's darksome ways.
Behind that hateful mask a demon lurks To urge the narrow soul to darksome deeds Of violence and greed, of hate and ruth.
Thus at length we came to the bend, which was more than half way down the precipice, being, so far as I could judge, about two hundred and fifty feet from its lip, and say one hundred and fifty from the darksome bottom of the narrow gulf.
It was the wedding song of the feast of Isis and Osiris at Behbit in Egypt, and there I heard it before ever I saw the darksome Caves of Kor.
It was as we came out of this darksome valley, where the overhanging pine trees almost eclipsed the light, that suddenly we missed our guide.
Then I left, and not too soon, for as I crept down the darksome passage, I heard it open behind me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darksome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
