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• The room was too dark for reading.
• They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
• [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
• Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
• He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
• my sister's hair is darker than mine;  her skin grew dark with a suntan
• Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
• If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
• Meantime we shall express our darker purpose
• What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
• What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
• the dark problems of existence
• a dark villain;  a dark deed
• Left him at large to his own dark designs.
• the Great Depression was a dark time;  the film was a dark psychological thriller
• A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
• There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
• The age wherein he lived was dark, but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.
• The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
• The ending of this book is rather dark.
• Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
• The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
• Dark surrounds us completely.
• We kept him in the dark.
• The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
• Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
• Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.
• It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
• The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.