Darker

Examples

• It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have the effect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So much was done and gone, that when I went out at the gate, the light of the day seemed of a darker color than when I went in. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Poor Dagley read a few verses sometimes on a Sunday evening, and the world was at least not darker to him than it had been before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Darker than Tamsin, murmured Mrs. Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But I doubt if they had more meaning in them than an election cry, and I cannot suggest a darker picture of her state of mind. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pray take care, Miss Woodhouse, ours is rather a dark staircaserather darker and narrower than one could wish. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Less remarkable, now that she was not alone and it was darker, Mrs Clennam hurried on at Little Dorrit's side, unmolested. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But I knew them well, and could have found my way on a far darker night, and had no excuse for returning, being there. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She was still perfectly quiet--no change of colour, or darker shadow of guilt, on her proud face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was all the darker from contrast with the pale gray-blue of the wintry sky; for in Heston there had been the earliest signs of frost. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But it looks so much darker when you show it to me! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then I suppose that opinion appears to you to be darker than knowledge, but lighter than ignorance? Plato. The Republic.
• Higher and darker rises shadow on the wall--now a red gloom on the ceiling--now the fire is out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see things under a darker aspect than I used to do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As she gave it to me playfully,--for her darker mood had been but Momentary,--I held it and put it to my lips. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I looked spectral; my eyes larger and more hollow, my hair darker than was natural, by contrast with my thin and ashen face. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His sister sat in the darker corner by the fireside, now looking at him, now looking at the bright sparks as they dropped upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It is thus that a hair in a microscope evidently appears to be a pipe, the sides showing darker than the middle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• On the one hand, he knew he did not want a further sensual experience--something deeper, darker, than ordinary life could give. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The house-leek and stone-crop have grown so much darker in the rain. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There was another, and a darker object, to be gained. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They may have been of a darker complexion than many of their descendants; of that we cannot speak with certainty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Oftener and ever oftener, it came stealing over her; darker and ever darker, like the shadow of advancing Death. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hers is much darker than it was; I think she must dye it, Miss Rosalind added. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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