But unluckily it happened that so pitchy dark and stormy was the night, the boat, when hailed, was not to be found.
Harry saw overhead a slice of dusky sky, lit by only a few stars, but it was pitchy black where he sat on his horse, and listened to his contented gurglings as he drank.
Harry slept soundly, but while the pitchy darkness of a winter night still enclosed the land he was awakened by a heavy rumbling noise.
Turning once again, I discovered that the fellow could not be seen in the pitchy blackness.
The forest was so pitchy black that I could not tell the trees from the darkness.
The thunder roared, the lightning flashed from the clouds, and the night became pitchy dark.
It seemed to me an age that I was thus clinging on in pitchy darkness, but I believe the catastrophe really occurred only a short time before daylight.
But the way was longer than the pilots reckoned, the night was pitchy dark, without moon or stars, the tide was on the ebb, and at last the boats were aground.
He ended; and by his brother's Stygian streams, by the banks of the pitchy black-boiling chasm he nodded confirmation, and shook all Olympus with his nod.
By his brother's infernal streams, by the banks of the pitchy black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his nod.
I in the first place, the lots being shaken, was allotted to inhabit for ever the hoary sea, and Pluto next obtained the pitchy darkness; but Jove in the third place had allotted to him the wide heaven in the air and in the clouds.
In the meantime Idomeneus ceased not his mighty valour; but always burned either to cover some of the Trojans with pitchy night,[429] or himself to fall with a crash, repelling destruction from the Greeks.
If the schooner was to sink, he felt that it would be better in the daylight than in the pitchy darkness.
She told of the bush wolves who answered that challenge, then of the slow settling down of night that turned this whole little world to a pitchy black.
Hemlock turned topitchy black Against the whiteness at their back.
While the fire was blazing before me I could see the boy distinctly, but when I got past the fire it was pitchy dark, and I lost all trace of the drowning youth.
When I rescued Robert Brown, the night was pitchy dark, and for some time I could not see him; and when I got to him he clutched me in such a manner as to prevent my swimming.
It was a bitter night there, with a westerly wind sweeping up torrents of slanting rain through the pitchy dark.
The whole room, which had been pitchy dark a moment before, seemed now fairly bursting with light.
He went into the forecastle and blew out the lantern there, and then everything was instantly engulfed in an impenetrable and pitchy darkness.
But in time the pitchy darkness quelled their spirits in spite of themselves, and little by little the turmoil ceased.
It was pitchy dark now, and matters were carried out with a rapidity that was startling.
Now the way was of pitchy blackness, then an opening would give us a glimpse of the stars.
In front, where the rides of the wood intersected each other, the moonlight streamed through in a broad patch, rendering blacker still the pitchy blackness beneath the trees beyond.
It was not a pleasant thing to have to creep through that open door with the probability of being brained by a powerful maniac waiting for them in the pitchy darkness beyond.
The sound of its approaching rush in the pitchy blackness was almost upon them--then it passed.
He must have been struck on the head; for no cry had been heard, and, owing to the pitchy darkness, no one had seen him.
The flash revealed for an instant the sides and roof of the cavern, which seemed to glitter as if studded with thousands of jewels, while ahead all was pitchy darkness, showing that they had not yet got to the extremity.
Throwing a shawl about her head and shoulders, she stole along the pitchy passageway, up the long flight of steps to the sidewalk, clutching the torn fragment of newspaper in the hand that held the shawl together beneath her chin.
It was pitchy dark in the kitchen now, and Mary got up to light the lamp.
The pitchy blackness within was such that we could not see the boards moving, and therefore we must needs kneel down and feel them from time to time.
For the night was cloudy and pitchy black, and the dawn as far away as eternity.
Pitchy darkness added to the horror of the scene and the danger to be encountered by the hapless passengers and crew of the ill-fated ship.
It was pitchy dark; indeed, the intense darkness, the strong gale, and the heavy surf on shore were enough to appal any man entering the lifeboat.
It was a vain task to struggle on, in pitchy darkness, among trunks of trees, fallen logs, tangled vines, and swollen streams.
As we descended the Mer de Glace the valley in front of us was filled with a cloud of pitchy darkness.
Owing to its compactness and to its being shaded by a covering of debris from the direct heat of the sun, the ice underneath the moraines of glaciers appears sometimes of a pitchy blackness.
The best varieties are black and pitchy in lustre, or even bright and scarcely to be distinguished from true coals.
Bright, glance or pitch coal is another brilliant variety, brittle, and breaking into regular fragments of a black colour and pitchy lustre.
He kneeled and held his hands out through the opening, directing them with his voice, reaching into the pitchy darkness until her hands found his, and then he brought her up to him and in upon the lumber.
In that pitchyblackness he had only his fingers to guide him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitchy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
