It is strange how I accepted this unforeseen partnership, this choice of nightmares forced upon me in the tenebrous land invaded by these mean and greedy phantoms.
Long, long we shouted and sang and caroused there in the great cavern, and after a time we arose together and trooped to where a narrow, high-arched bridge spanned the tenebrous waters of the lake.
Winged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly--whispering in human voices.
The symbolical representation of the solar year in the form of a serpent biting his tail is equivalent to the myth of the monster-serpent who dies when his eggs are broken, that is, when the light comes out of its tenebrous envelope.
Never had she looked to Ray so like an eagle, so keen, so fierce, so fit for braving either sun or tenebrous cavern.
She saw the road of life they would take together; how they would stand on peaks of lofty desire, in sunlight; how, unfaltering, they would pace tenebrous valleys.
We stood again before the tenebrous wall where first we had faced the priestess and the Voice.
This spot, however small, is enough to betray his tenebrous nature.
We find the cloudy or tenebrous sky of night represented in the Rigvedas and in the Avesta as acman, or mountain of stone.
The origin of the bad and poor mythical iron, described in the Kalevala, is one of these: the mythical iron is the cloudy or tenebrous sky.
But, since this great celestial cow produces the tempestuous, noisy winds, she represents not only the serene, tranquil vault of the shining sky, but also the cloudy and tenebrousmother of storms.
The gecko did not favorably view Nawin unzipping his skin and lying down in his tenebrous tomb in such a manner.
He might as well dally until one of the officers of the train returned to remove the linen and readjust the seats or he would have to lie in the tenebrous tomb as dormant as the seed of love that existed within him.
At one moment the light accentuated blemishes visible on his face and at another moment it diffused onto the whole countenance making it sleek and mysterious like tenebrous silver.
Nawin slunk back into what he amusingly considered his "tenebrous tomb" not that he found such retreats into himself so odious.
Numb in his tenebrous tomb, it seemed to him that time was a man-made concept erroneously believed as fully real and tangible because of all the clocks and calendars, made to measure mortality, and things known to have already passed away.
Then he began to pull down linen, shoving tenebrous tombs back into their embankments, and readjusting bottom bunks.
Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide, The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds its tenebrous side With scales of golden mail ensheathe.
Into one of these tenebrous groves the horsemen now plunged, and for some moments were buried in the gloom produced by matted and overhanging boughs.
That which is salutary and vital for thetenebrous child of the earth would be fatal to an aerial mother, who has already fluttered in the warmth and genial light of heaven.
From one pole of misery to the other, from one gehenna to another, from the galleys to the brothel, tenebrous mouths wildly exchange the kiss of azure.
In the Rue Maugout, la Mere Corniche cried to him from hertenebrous sentry-box: "One moment, citoyen.
This tenebrous entrance, after plunging onward some forty feet, fell against a wall of gray light, where the visitor, making an abrupt angle, passed into the purer air of a narrow court.
Here and there we caught a vision of promising arcades, and apparently ancient outlines of houses and gabled roofs, but everything was in tenebrous gloom.
The room was well illuminated with gas, whatever might be going on in the streets; to no tenebrous repast were we invited.
We have said that the tenebrous darkness of last night had not prepared us for the charms of to-day.
