What savage creature was it which might steal upon us out of the darkness?
I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the darkness, and a week later I found myself in Florence with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.
A red square of light had sprung out of the darkness.
When we were out inthe darkness of the quadrangle we again looked up at the windows.
Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it.
Yes, I have walked in the night, many's the time, and my heart great in me for terror of the darkness.
Without more words she let me cover her; which as I was doing in the darkness, I let my hand rest a moment on her shoulder, almost like an embrace.
Presently after, out of the darkness to southward, the mail grew near with a growing rumble.
Mr. Archer turned towards her in the darkness, and she could clearly perceive that he smiled upon her very kindly.
Now he sat with a bowed head, now walked precipitately to and fro, now went and gazed from the uncurtained window, where the wind was still blowing, and the lights winked in the darkness.
I remember stepping over the chair and gluing my ear to the door, and I shall never forget feeling it give an inch or two there in the darkness, under a steady pressure from without.
Apparently only a few minutes elapsed, during which my eyes were becoming accustomed to the darkness.
Moreover, a minute or two in the darknessenabled me to see things fairly well.
The electric lights went out then, fading slowly until there was only a red-hot loop to be seen in the bulb, and then even that died away and we were embarked on the darkness of another night.
As I looked it darted across the veranda and out of sight in the darkness.
Always I shall be Limned on the darkness like a shaft of light That glimmers and is gone.
There was a lady on this tower with me---- (He glances around hurriedly but does not see her in the darkness.
It doubled around the spurs, forded stony brooks in diagonals, and often in the darkness of the mountain forest I had to feel for the blazes on the trees.
Night fell as though a blanket had been spread over the tree-tops, and above the dreary splashing men could be heard calling to one another in the darkness.
Gripping the handle of my tomahawk, I prayed for guidance in my stroke, for the blade might go wild in the darkness.
And later, when the fireflies glowed and the Nollichucky sang in the darkness, we listened to the talk of the war of the year gone by.
We saw the forest wall burst out--how far away I know not--and the air was filled as with a flock of giant birds, and boughs crashed on the roof of the cabin and tore the water in the darkness.
By day I would have charged the great banth itself, had I thought it necessary, but hemmed in by the darkness of these silent pits I hesitated before a pair of eyes.
The fleet in the darkness of the preceding night had barely grazed the crest of the hills, and in the brief span that they hovered close to the surface the black guard had pitched me, as he supposed, to my death.
I dared not attempt to halt in the darkness of any of the many intersecting corridors, for I knew nothing of the direction they might take.
For a few minutes I could hear the clanking of accoutrements, but even this grew fainter and fainter, until at last the silence was as complete as the darkness.
How long I stood listening in the darkness I do not know, but the silence was unbroken, and at last I sunk to the hard floor of my prison, where, leaning my head against the stony wall, I slept.
But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.
This did God in His wisdom in order that these golden rods, being with Adam in the cave, should shine forth with light in the night around him, and put an end to his fear of the darkness.
And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.
I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night.
My only alternative seemed to lie in flight and my decision was crystallized by a recurrence of the rustling sound from the thing which now seemed, in the darkness of the cave and to my distorted imagination, to be creeping stealthily upon me.
I noticed that someone had thrown a fur over me, but it had become partially dislodged and in the darkness I could not see to replace it.
There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule.
If it were only a big enough cloud I might try to run away in the darkness.
Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
The girl made no comment upon the use of the name which he had applied to her, and in the darkness he could not see her features, nor did he see the odd expression upon the boy's face as he heard the name addressed to her.
As Bridge groped toward the spot where the boy had fallen his eyes, now become accustomed to the darkness of the room, saw that the youth was sitting up.
The darkness of the upper hallway offered no obstacle to this familiar housebreaker.
As we strolled along the road we looked up and saw a red signal-light glowing in the darkness of the mountainside.
This black and solid mass was struggling painfully onward, through the slop, the darkness, and the deluge.
Night was coming on, the darkness began to gather--still we did not budge.
At last Willems moved slightly, Abdulla followed readily, and they both walked down the courtyard, their voices dying away in the darkness.
Without stirring Lingard glanced sideways, and caught sight of muffled-up human shapes that hovered for a moment near the edge of light and retreated suddenly back into the darkness.
A movement, a leap, a shout would save him from the feeble hand of the blind old man, from that hand that even now was, with cautious sweeps along the ground, feeling for his body in the darkness.
The darkness of the night entered his heart, bringing with it doubt and hesitation and dull anger with himself and all the world.
So they were happy in the morning--happy, very happy playing, dancing at night round the lonely lamp-post in the midst of the darkness.
Paul saw, in the darkness of the shop, an elegant young lady in black peering over the counter curiously.
Sometimes they went to the window and watched the three or four lamps growing tinier and tinier, swaying down the fields in the darkness.
The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage.
There was a feeling of horror, a kind of bristling in the darkness, and a sense of blood.
It shore was, Laddy, it shore was," came a voice out of the darkness.
This idea seemed to creep in out of the darkness, the loneliness, the silence, and to find a place in Gale's mind, so that it had strange fascination for him.
It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond.
The beautiful notes of the bugle floated out of the darkness, clearer, sharper, faster.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the darkness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
