Darkness
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For half an hour he had been looking at the colliers who were returning to work in the darkness, passing by with the dull tramp of a herd.
The cage freed itself and slipped down into the
darkness.
After that he was only able to see by the hanging lamp which preceded him in the darkness, and, in spite of his courage, he shuddered and turned pale in the face of the horror of the disaster.
The thought of the man who had done that made his hair stand on end, and froze him with a supernatural fear of evil, as though, mixed with the darkness, the man were still there paying for his immeasurable crime.
Afar his shadow diminished and mingled with the
darkness.
She waited, standing at the edge of the shaft, gazing down into the
darkness
of the hole.
For the prisoners it was the beginning of the twelfth day; twelve times over had they passed twenty-four hours without bread, without fire, in that icy
darkness!
When the lamp was empty and they had to open another to light it, they were, for a moment, disturbed by the fear of fire-damp; but they would rather have been blown up at once than live on in
darkness.
Darkness
was invading the walled-up cave, and this body, lying on the earth, looked like the black boss of a mass of rough coal.
It was becoming pale; they could distinguish no more than a constantly diminishing semicircle, as though eaten away by the
darkness
which seemed to grow with the flood; and suddenly the
darkness
enveloped them.
Catherine, as though she had felt the
darkness
seize her, sheltered herself against him.
and they suffered especially from the darkness, which would not allow them to see the coming of death.
She gazed at the
darkness
with distraction, wringing her hands in another fit of sobbing.
The
darkness
lighted up, she saw the sun again, and she laughed a quiet laugh of love.
His blinking eyes followed the light, he was never tired of looking at it, enraptured by this reddish point which scarcely stained the
darkness.
Everywhere, in the morning haze, along the roads lost in darkness, the flock was tramping on, rows of men trotting with faces bent towards the earth, like cattle led to the slaughter-house.
Then all traces of light vanished into the
darkness.
By then the
darkness
was profound, and as good as the Canadian's eyes were, I still wondered how he could see--and what he had seen.
"Professor Aronnax," he answered me, "I don't know what kind of fearsome creature I'm up against, and I don't want my frigate running foolish risks in all this
darkness.
Moreover, the moon then disappeared and left us in profound
darkness.
The narrow hatch had barely closed over me when I was surrounded by profound
darkness.
All was darkness, but such utter
darkness
that after several minutes, my eyes were still unable to catch a single one of those hazy gleams that drift through even the blackest nights.
Half an hour had already gone by without our situation changing, when our eyes were suddenly spirited from utter
darkness
into blinding light.
We're simply running around blindfolded--"Ned Land was just pronouncing these last words when we were suddenly plunged into darkness, utter
darkness.
The
darkness
in the lounge enhanced the brightness outside, and we stared as if this clear glass were the window of an immense aquarium.
I heard a door with watertight seals close after us, and we were surrounded by profound
darkness.
Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the midst of a hazy
darkness.
I soon grew accustomed to this bizarre arrangement, likewise to the comparative
darkness
surrounding us.
So at precisely this point the
darkness
became profound.
In all honesty, I was dead tired by the time I spotted a hazy glow half a mile away, cutting through the
darkness
of the waters.
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