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Example sentences for "profound darkness"

  • There is no twilight on its surface, night following day and day following night, with the suddenness of a lamp extinguished or lighted in profound darkness.

  • Until now the projectile had moved in profound darkness.

  • The travellers, hermetically inclosed in their metal prison, were in profound darkness.

  • Just then the luminous globe lighting our cell went out, leaving us in profound darkness.

  • Moreover, the moon then disappeared and left us in profound darkness.

  • I heard a door with watertight seals close after us, and we were surrounded by profound darkness.

  • The narrow hatch had barely closed over me when I was surrounded by profound darkness.

  • At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.

  • The subterranean church was buried in profound darkness, and apparently wholly untenanted.

  • At the same moment, also, the torches were extinguished, and the whole of the building buried in profound darkness.

  • With the last of the group, the mysterious light vanished, and Chowles and his companion were left in profound darkness.

  • It was buried in profound darkness, and he had not proceeded far when he stumbled over something lying in his path, and found from the groan that followed that it was a plague-patient.

  • Groping his way along the damp, cold walls of his cell, which was in profound darkness, the Doctor stumbled over a person who was lying upon the floor, writhing in the agonies of delirium tremens.

  • The terrified woman, under the influence of a painful fascination, could not avert her gaze from it; and the spectre stood until the candle was entirely consumed, and the room was wrapped in profound darkness.

  • They descended to the cellar, and entered the secret passage, which they traversed in profound darkness.

  • Wait here a few moments, until I get a light,' said the woman; and entering a room which opened from the entry, she left our hero standing in the midst of profound darkness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being apprehended; darkened room; entirely devoted; fair lord; greater variety; home ranges; intelligent being; laying duties; long narrow; other breeds; other modes; poor quality; profound darkness; profound impression; profound knowledge; profound obeisance; profound peace; profound reverence; profound secret; profound silence; profound sleep; shall bear his iniquity; steel traps; these should; threw down; white slave