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The panels in the lounge were open, and since the Nautilus's beacon was off, a hazy darkness reigned in the midst of the waters.
The Nautilus had drifted into the midst of some phosphorescent strata, which, in this darkness, came off as positively dazzling.
Just then the luminous globe lighting our cell went out, leaving us in profound darkness.
Past the boundaries of the clearing, the darkness deepened again, relieved only by little sparkles given off by the sharp crests of coral.
The cabin was dark; but my eyes soon grew accustomed to its darkness and I saw the pilot, a muscular man whose hands rested on the pegs of the wheel.
I left my stateroom and returned to the lounge, which was deserted and plunged in near darkness.
I spotted gigantic furrows trailing off into the distant darkness, their length incalculable.
But instead of the broad daylight I was expecting, I found that I was surrounded by total darkness.
The darkness was so profound I couldn't see even Captain Nemo.
Sometimes I heard melancholy sounds reverberating from the organ, which he played very expressively, but only at night in the midst of the most secretive darkness, while the Nautilus slumbered in the wilderness of the ocean.
I sat up in bed, listening in the darkness, and then was suddenly hurled into the middle of my stateroom.
We'll take advantage of the darkness.
The lounge was plunged in profound darkness.
The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy, lectures on pathology, lectures on physiology, lectures on pharmacy, lectures on botany and clinical medicine, and therapeutics, without counting hygiene and materia medica—all names of whose etymologies he was ignorant, and that were to him as so many doors to sanctuaries filled with magnificent darkness.
But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Raising the corners of the muslin curtain, one could see the light of their lanterns glimmering through the darkness.
At last she would close the lids of her weary eyes, and see in the darkness the gas jets flaring in the wind and the steps of carriages lowered with much noise before the peristyles of theatres.
She was seized with the temptation to flee somewhere with Leon to try a new life; but at once a vague chasm full of darkness opened within her soul.
The furniture in its place seemed to have become more immobile, and to lose itself in the shadow as in an ocean of darkness.
It glitters, it flashes; yet one still doubts, one does not believe it; one remains dazzled, as if one went out iron darkness into light."
Now and then a meagre Roman-candle went off; then the gaping crowd sent up a shout that mingled with the cry of the women, whose waists were being squeezed in the darkness.
At night-every night-I arose; I came hither; I watched your house, its glimmering in the moon, the trees in the garden swaying before your window, and the little lamp, a gleam shining through the window-panes in the darkness.
Masses of shadow here and there loomed out in the darkness, and sometimes, vibrating with one movement, they rose up and swayed like immense black waves pressing forward to engulf them.
Then the landlady shouted out, and other voices answered, while Hippolyte's lantern, as he fetched the boxes from the boot, was like a star in the darkness.
They could hear the loud murmur of the river flowing in the darkness at the foot of the terrace.
There the darkness was intense.
CHAPTER 1O A Large Heart and a Small FortuneBut passion most dissembles, yet betrays,Even by its darkness; as the blackest skyForetells the heaviest tempest.
The darkness soon became intense.
The darkness hid every movement.
In the midst of that vast darkness, his soul wandered in contemplation of what he imagined that he would one day find in Paris.
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