And she saw his dark brother leaning against the door and laughing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he was still thoughtful that night at the windowsill, his head on a cushion, feet propped up on his mother’s sofa, smoking in the dark. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then Jonathan noticed a dark stain in the middle of the road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Small dark hairs flecked the sink basin, and dust was gathering in the grout lines between the tiles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and muscular, with light brown skin and slicked-back dark hair. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His uniform was clean but wrinkled, and the dark circles under his eyes looked like they covered most of his face now. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the attic, TaShon is a dark lump, with a flickering light, curled up reading. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh well. Your turn for a plan. You have any strange and wonderful magics from the University? Any dark powers better left alone?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He is dark and wears the black clothes of the Khmer Rouge—the black clothes I still wear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vegetation clustered thickly on both banks, and the light that came from the tree lanterns was fading quickly the further away they got, so that almost everything ahead was dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She looked out at him with dark, wondering eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was waiting for my eyes to adjust to the dark, but it wasn't happening, so eventually I had to give in to it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Little Willy’s eyes took a while to get used to the dark, and then he saw them. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My delusions became more frequent in the dark. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“We have to climb. It will be dark soon. You would do well to be inside before night comes. Your warmth will draw them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They stood looking at the building rising above us, the liquid dark of the oil simmering dully in the stray flecks of light that struck their pails, bent forward, their shoulders bowed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You, my young friend, are a rat. Exactly. Yes. Evil. Prisoners. Rats. Suffering. It all fits together so neatly, so sweetly Oh, it is a lovely world, a lovely, dark world. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It’s dark on Atlantic Avenue and all the bars around the Long Island Railroad Station are bright and noisy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weatherstained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Presently, groping and fumbling in the dark, they found that the opening on the left was blocked: either it was a blind, or else some great stone had fallen in the passage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Inej wiggled forward so Nina had a better view through the vent, and a moment later, she heard four soft thuds as the Menagerie girls collapsed on the dark blue carpet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning when it was still dark we got all cleaned up and I dressed in my old jeans and a Penn State T-shirt for the bus ride. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please take me back to the bus station. And listen to your grandmother. You shouldn’t drive all the way back to New York in the dark.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She turned around and the light hit her and I could see how gray her skin was and how dark the moons were ringing her eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The vines on north beach might make dark smoke, but the leaves on them were very small The sea grape! The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom knelt and wrapped me into her, and she smelled like a strange mix of old and new—like her flower shampoo and a newer, deeper scent of dark chocolate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The hall is dusky, this is a man, his back to me; he’s looking into the room, dark against its light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was dim, the windows dark, just a streetlight here and there, half-hidden by the buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She pelts stones at a tree with small, dark leaves, and bunches of a long brown fruit fall to the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“What would a traditional villager think if he came across us on a dark path?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about being in darkness that dark is it seems like every sound has to be coming from some giant, many-fanged monster. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

As he approaches the dark bulwark of the ramparts, a man in uniform limps toward him out of the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, sometimes it seems to be getting fainter, and then it comes back. Don’t you think it’s darker today?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had me turning a shade darker than a beet. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When lightning streaks over the sky, her dark eyes shine like gold. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He imagined dark clouds over the mobile home and fat raindrops pelting the cornfield, where his corn had grown five feet high. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“She was lovely. She had dark eyes and blond hair. She didn’t cry a lot, she slept well, right from the very beginning. She was good. She was a good girl.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ida's boat stayed behind like a shadow, hardly more than a black speck against the dark outline of the shore. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can see the darkest part of night just ending. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The ends of their long sweeping boughs hung down like searching fingers, their roots stood up from the ground like the limbs of strange monsters, and dark caverns opened beneath them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Keeping his head upright, he reached carefully into the display case and felt around until his hand found the dark brown Hershey’s bars. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At first the globe was dark, black as jet, with the moonlight gleaming on its surface. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was nearly 7:00 p.m. when the last marching band finished and Barack and I walked through the dark and into the White House, arriving for the first time as residents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Waiting for dark, they watched nervously up the cliff to the house whose lighted windows looked out over the silver river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I know you won’t be home until after it gets all nice and dark. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mom was totally silent, invisible in the dark. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was darker than usual when I walked Teacher Sarah to the gate that night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran down the dark stairs, and when they finally found a light, they were met with a disaster of a room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘Too much; too many dark things,’ said Strider grimly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her leg was going to be painful; already it was red and swollen where the car had struck it, and a dark, massive bruise was forming. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed at dark- thirty, and rummaged around the kitchen for anything to eat. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wexler asked over her dark glasses, tilting her head a little, so all her earrings jangled. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I gently brush the dark, thick hair back behind her ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The pile of earth was too low to hide all the flames, so until dark I collected rocks, about brick-sized, for my wall. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were tiny bags, each containing a nucleus, which was a darker blob near the center. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's tall and handsome, white and relaxed, with the same dark, curly hair and shining teeth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was wrapped in dark purple silk, with gold bangles on both wrists and black pencil around her eyes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pair stood and chatted beside two armchairs, beneath one of the dark wooden arches that are found throughout the grand building. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the headland path it was too dark to see anything. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Over the olive grove in a sunken sky and a dark rain of cold evening stars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do the physics of this light/dark fantasy work themselves out for guys, I wondered. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their dark green tents are set up in the middle of a group of trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many surprises for an old man that lives in the dark, y’know what I mean?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tries to be solid for Axel when her world has gone dark, too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The car passes and you can't see through the dark windows and you can hear the snow crunching under the tires, squeaky and frozen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they returned to the airport at sundown for their night flight overseas, a storm was swirling somewhere over the dark Atlantic. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The monk looked down at Pong, his dark eyes stern. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted the very best for his congregation, to take them out of the dark ages of superstition and witchery. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The dark metal seemed to gaze back at me, threatening even in its stillness. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Walking through our fields I saw my father was right about it being slick and dark. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was dark gray, even in the sunlight, white-capped and heaving to the gray, rocky shore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ul A cassette comes into the dark space between my arm and face. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His suit even had a vest, but that was dark gray. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We ate a fist-sized piece of fish meat at each meal, accompanied by dark green leaves, rigid as cardboard, that Wello foraged for us out of the underbrush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jam exhaled when they sat in their seats, welcoming the dark of the large room, the artificial light of the screen that stretched from floor to ceiling, curving in on them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When he spread his wings, they were so large and dark that they blotted out the sunlight. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The dark shadows of a crowd of people pressed in around them, pushing nearer; Harry felt the ground beneath his head reverberating with their footsteps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they’d yet encountered. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He leads us to the right side of the Pit, which is conspicuously dark. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the valley below, the orchids glowed with pale malevolence in the moonlight, a frozen sea against the dark shore of the forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The whites of his eyes were dark yellow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa rose in the dark for work and was asleep by nine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The argument for the existence of dark matter can be observed in the motions of galaxies. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way I’m staying in this creepy place after dark.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee’s face was dark, there were shadows where his eyes should have been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been so long since I’ve been anywhere with live electricity, with light and power after dark, I hardly remember what it’s like to turn on a light switch. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Celia suspects he is scowling despite the admission, though it is too dark to tell. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The house looked deserted, dark and silent, even the honey-colored stone had the feeling of something abandoned. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark was his den, his home, his proper habit. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t listen to them. They’re the ones who kept me in the dark. I’m not going to let them stop me from being who I am.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered the inside, the dark, the coolness, and the music. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus looks up from his fingernails, and his dark eyes narrow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't believe he was back with her, apparently perfectly all right except for the scratch on his forehead, almost hidden by his dark hair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Flora’s mother had him in a sack and the sack was flung over her back, and she was walking somewhere and it was very, very dark. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was long for a man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if some dark force had heard his silent plea. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Following a stone wall in the dark, wrapped in his blanket, kneeling in the ashes like a penitent. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the top of the hill, the pond looked like a single dark eye staring at Raymie. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by the dark doorways of private homes crushed between shops and restaurants. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As daylight faded, I was entombed in a world darker than any night could bring. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That evening Ethel let Cora stay in the extra bedroom, provided she kept the room dark and stayed away from the window. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The next night when she mounted her steps Tea Cake was there before her, sitting on the porch in the dark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One was taller and one was shorter, but they had the same dark hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were nights when I couldn’t sleep but stared into the darkest night until my eyes could see clearly through it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If we go slow, it’ll be dark when we get there.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet read for nearly an hour, while the night outside grew darker and all those who had filled the city with noise during the day were long in their beds. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were larger, darker, more enveloping secrets all around them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His skin was dark, his hair was dark, and he wore a dark-colored headband. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way back to Anker’s, but when I arrived all the inn’s windows were dark and the door was locked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon patrolled the room, checking the wardrobe, the picture rail, the curtains, the view of the dark cloisters out of the window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So they passed into the dark chasm of the Gates. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was dark now, and Lyra watched through the window as the lights of Colby came closer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad it’s dark in here so she can’t see my puffy eyes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the dark he did not need a name, so it was easy to forget. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Selitos spoke the long name that lay in Lanre’s heart, and at the sound of it the sun grew dark and wind tore stones from the mountainside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But it was too dark to see anything. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The few trails that exist there are almost impossible to see in the dark, and the pair are soon lost and frustrated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

All was silent, save for the rumour of war in the City down below, and they heard the water dripping sadly from the dead branches into the dark pool. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

More tall, dark shadows moved across the club. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It might have been a well-lit room, but it felt cold and dark. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or to wonder why she has those dark circles under her eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud hovered nearby, but I kept playing until I was forced to stop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It sounds like a misstep causing a tumble into a dark and dangerous crevasse, which is exactly what has happened. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A dark water was before him, and he was crawling on the ground, this way and that, doubtful of the way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the clouds in the distance are getting darker and moving our way quickly. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When the lights were turned off, and the blues dancing started, she wanted to be in his arms in a dark corner, but he said, “Let’s go outside and talk.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It's getting dark earlier these days, and there's bound to be some traffic heading back into the city. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry was halfway along the passage to the bar, which was now very dark, when he heard another pair of angry voices coming from the parlor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Poor dear, I’ve no doubt it frets her to be kept in the dark, and it may make her doubly anxious about me and the others. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They saw the flash and heard the sharp rattle of the aircraft’s machine guns in the dark, and bullets raked the wings of their Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland turned off the lights in his house and sat in the dark before the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The title of the book was lettered in bold, dark calligraphy: Tales of Wonder and Grace. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s in a navy pantsuit, no makeup, dark hair pulled back into a bun. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She pulled it from the shelf, noting the dark gold lettering on its cover that Ekon had also described. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, I can smell it,’ said Frodo, but he did not move, and his eyes remained fixed, staring out towards the dark line and the flickering flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As they moved closer, more men in dark uniforms got out of the cars and truck cabs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you believed the Greenies, Rat said, Mary Anne was still somewhere out there in the dark. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feared she would wander in the dark Wood forever, until she was only a skeleton powered by sheer will. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that could just be me and the dark, slow-churning vortex that’s always there, in me and around me, to some degree. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He peered ahead into the dark cleft, and left and right up the great, cavern-pocked, boulder-tumbled slopes where trees crouched with their roots half in air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid was squinting up the dark path, but after a few seconds, the sound faded away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

More goodbyes, Dicey thought to herself, coiling up the last rope into a dark brown hoop, piling loop upon loop. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you begin probing into the origins of aids and Marburg, the light fails and things go dark, but you sense hidden connections. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words were in another language—something brutal and dark, like a knuckle scraping against stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When it was completely dark, Harriet left the little island, moving slowly, quietly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell the horses in the dark, and could hear their shiftings and their soft stamping on the needle-covered ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The edge was smeared dark, like it had been scraping tar “Eech!” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Flames and hot ashes exploded into the dark. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His blue over-tunic was long, quilted, and dark, with yellow clasps that gleamed in the torch- light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkest place that revisits me over and over again. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was still dark, and the air still misty and cold, when we trotted our way through the rock- strewn, potholed streets to the other end of Alexandra where Granny lived. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He navigated the dark, silent mobile home, hoping not to disturb Uncle Jet, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room until the hogan was cleaned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A trap: a dark trap under the roots of the silent mountain, and he was in the trap. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were also dark secrets people didn’t much talk about, along with a gray market of gossip that could spread the ill-informed rumor as fast as any IM or text network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The one that growled “Why” was followed by a darker, quieter growl that answered. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The dark forest seemed to surround us, impenetrable. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was dark in the church; street lights had been snapping on all around him on the populous avenue; the light of the day was gone. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mother smells of lavender and warmth; she’s so beautiful even if her cheeks are too hollow, her mouth too dark with worries. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bubbe is wearing chic dark jeans, yellow flats, and a long black sweater. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Harry slicked back the dark, wet bangs of his hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the end, gathering his courage, he leaped over Gollum in the dark, and fled away down the passage, pursued by his enemy’s cries of hate and despair: Thief, thief! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Linda cupped her breasts loosely, steam eddied thoughtfully in the dark air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little cheering section in the back, in the darkest corner of the auditorium, is going nuts. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And out of the darkest recess among the trees there came a sound Shasta had never heard before—a nightingale. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a pleasure, sir scribe. If you get on your way now, you can still make Abbot’s Ford by dark.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

La Llorona’s gaunt face shriveled up like a pale raisin, becoming sallow and ashen, creased by centuries of wrinkles and dark blotches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She took me by the hand and we wandered through the bumpy fields in the dark, passing the haunted faces of survivors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed a ghostly imitation of Danny, except that his hair was black and his eyes were dark. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They raced along the pig track, but the forest was too dark and tangled so that Jack, cursing, stopped them and cast among the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When it was almost dark, Georgie and I sneaked back to the trailer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

At first she stood, bewildered, in the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come along, come along,” he shouted from the dark hole. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Curfew means all Jews off the streets after dark.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I had never been near enough to the king to know whether he also had a sprinkling of freckles across his nose, surprising on such a dark face. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of that first day he had gone down and down until dark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yo's words fell into the dark, mute cavern of John's mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the windows behind all the curtains are dark, and behind every curtain there's a horror story, a real one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t matter: Their good intentions fluttered like dark birds above the city streets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Wait here a little while, and I will bring you such answer as seems good to him. Do not hope too much! These are dark days.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The headache is gone and it's dark outside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the man had already reached the dark stairway to the subway. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized Lieutenant Stranger’s own horse and for a moment saw the young man’s dark face in the moonlight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairwell is dark, but my eyes are pretty well-adjusted, and I can see the tension in Martin’s jaw. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I watched as Alice drew a square room with dark beams across its low ceiling. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She heard the sound of glass exploding and ducked as flames burst out and flickered toward the dark sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They created dark­ ness in the middle of day, and shadows that distorted the path and made him stumble from time to time on roots and rocks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the dream I’m adrift on the current in a leaky boat in the dark of night and can’t find my oars and can’t see the shore and can’t do nothing to save myself. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Under this dark weight the walls leaned, under it the ceiling, with a great crack like lightning in its center, sagged. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If you want to,” she said, “but not too far. Mama said we got to leave early, and it’s getting dark.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the worst vision: she saw herself with Jason and Percy, standing waist-deep in water at the bottom of a dark circular chamber, like a giant well. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But this was their Star-Palace, their shelter from the rain, and from the dark night outside. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the blackout curtains closed and the mask half covering my eyes it was dark inside the hallway as I shuffled forward with my scythe waving in front of me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was Papa himself, his dark, bitter, brooding presence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They take on a dark, metallic green color, looking as if they will burst like a water balloon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glumbumbles nest in dark and secluded places such as hollow trees and caves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was either light-skinned black or darker Latino, I couldn’t tell which. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some nights, in the soft, helpless moments before sleep comes, she recalls their conversation on the roof about love and dark matter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the screen is dark, and the sound isn’t tinny or distant. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The medicine melted the dark poison; the blackness seemed to be rinsing away and Dragon’s breathing became easier and even. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was my age, with unruly black, punk-style hair, dark eyeliner around her stormy green eyes, and freckles across her nose. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps fourteen years old, dark like her brother, but very slight and slender. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the dark figures inside Salim’s pod gather to one side, facing out northeast to where the camera was. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark by the time we reached it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was washed and brushed, he was freshly shaved, and he wore the black breastplate of an officer of the City Watch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She’d done her braid with white feathers today, which looked good with her dark brown hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On my way upstairs, in the dark, I ran into old Salamano, my neighbor across the landing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the whole set of shelves swings out, revealing a dark space behind the pantry, long and narrow, big enough to walk into, too dark to see much. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blasts of white gold blazed through the dark, and we covered our ears to brace for the thunder. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was dark out there, but you could see the lumpish shapes of the Cowgill boys hanging around the milk wagon, waiting for their paw. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They waited until dark, then hurried down to the beach and tried to get a boat out to the big American ships. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sierra tried to peek above the swarming bodies and see if there were any corpuscules lurking, but it was too dark to make anything out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look into my mother’s eyes, which are pale green and framed by a dark smudge of eyelashes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had dark circles around her eyes, a mix of runny makeup and no sleep. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my eyes and as I awoke I saw a dark shadow and began to cry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few men had been keeping watch, but in the dark of night, with the wind rippling through the long grass, the lion could easily have crept close without being seen. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are you, my dear, and why are you out here on the road after dark?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the thick mud had dried to a dark, flaky crust like an old scab, and a layer of leaves covered the ground like a raggedy Band-Aid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The maid led the two boys through a dark entrance hall into the courtyard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He perched on the pole and screamed a dark message in Edward’s left ear: Caw, caw, caw, without ceasing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“But why have they let us?” asked Harry, who could not shake off the vision of tentacles rising out of the dark water the moment they were out of sight of the bank. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The world beyond ours is full of roads and dark buildings and collapsing power lines. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wall’s bright white paint along the edges really helps the dark red brick stand out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if you ought to go” “You keep out of this,” “uncle” said, still peering into the dark street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed annoyed; she flipped her dark curls impatiently — I guessed she’d been hoping to hear something that would make a good story for her to pass on. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was close to losing his temper with him and then he realized that he was shaking his head in the dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When she was riding, sometimes she would suddenly glimpse dark brown skin, mottled like lichen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She pulls her dark paisley scarf tight around her shoulders. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He carried her off to the dark cave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gabriel, be careful,” my mother called as my father and Chavez slipped out into the dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars in this world were the same as theirs: the Milky Way blazed bright across the dome of the sky, and innumerable points of starlight dusted the dark, almost matching the moon for brightness…. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one second, Marigold thought, she really did, that she might know what her mother had felt like, all alone on that dark night in Madagascar. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Wake up, it’s your turn to stand guard,” a voice says to me from the dark. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, more portraits against the dark purple walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even Papá, whose moods continued to get darker every day, cheered up when she came. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Your Radiance, Hizdahr was seen to enter the pyramid of Zhak last evening. He did not depart until well after dark.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Still I try and try, till all at once I find her and myself in dark; so I look round, and find that the sun have gone down. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lydia looked around the room as her eyes adjusted to the dark. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Papa wore one of his new dark suits. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They are looking for Calvin out in the dark. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

From across the dark field, the trailer’s windows glowed, beckoning me as if I had no more willpower than a moth drawn to a candle’s flame. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had short dark hair, just like Judy’s, tied back with a ribbon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dark, and when he wasn’t sulking in silence he would tell me things I really didn’t want to know. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They are called things like Lundy’s Lane and The Maple Leaf Tavern, and they’re all dark, even in daytime, because they aren’t allowed to have windows you can see in through from the street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More and more lately, Quichua words have been burying themselves deeper and deeper in dark places in my memory. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that dark cloud is sitting on my head. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Helmuth knows he's supposed to support his country and its leaders, and yet the Nazis feel dark and threatening, too. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes a silence tells the most,” said Samuel, and he saw Cathy’s eyes leap up and down again, and it seemed to him that the scar on her forehead grew darker. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was always in charge—even then, before you understood it, her beauty was hard to look away from: glossy dark hair and full red lips. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The streets are crowded with young people in elaborate getups—giant lace skirts, elaborate umbrellas, ten-inch-tall boots, eyelashes that seem miles long, face masks that glow in the dark. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey will wish he still had his sword. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In their dark cloaks they were as invisible as if they all had magic rings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He nods, and I lift the poncho and duck underneath and lean my head against his chest, and it feels cozy and dark and warm. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At those times I would lie on the floor in the dark, with the curtains drawn and the door closed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every town in Massachusetts had a grammar school, and from the age of eight, pupils there would be taught the classics from eight in the morning until dark fell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His bulging eyes, wild hair, enormous dark belly, and animal-fang necklace made the barefoot figure more beast than human. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it grew dark while they were in the air—and none of the three pilots in Tamara’s squadron had done any night flying in fighter aircraft at all, not even in training. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes are alert, and he looks giddy, like a child. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You could hear them late at night, when everything was quiet and dark. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They stitched uneasily, the needles faring through the dark material with a long gleam Hke falling stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He really is staring in this direction, though. Oh, it gives me the creeps. Surely he’s not looking at our window? I have to remember it’s dark in here. He can’t see me.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes now, I swear I can see sound, the dark green howling wind, the crimson crush of rain—all these sound-colors swirling around my room while I lie on my bed thinking about Brian. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“One day I will take photographs also,” she says, her dark eyes alight with the shine of her dream. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘You were right, you tall, dark boy, for even as we shoot down the British soldiers we are fighting for rights such as they will be enjoying a hundred years from now. ‘ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance: a plastic banana, glowing a bright and unreal yellow in the dark. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It looked rich and gooey, dark and smooth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She widened her eyes, trying to see anything against the heavy dark with its few stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tessie made Chapter Eleven and Meg sleep in separate bedrooms, but in the middle of the night there was a lot of tiptoeing and giggling in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath thick plastic glasses, his eyes were swollen, bloodshot, and surrounded by deep dark circles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Men who pushed and pranced, appearing to us as dark stick puppets before the wall of fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found the edge of the bed in the dark and sat down on it and started putting on my shoes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a blue armchair with dark wooden feet carved like eagle claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This vestibule is an archway that leads into a dark building that has every indication of being abandoned. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was stacked with small mountains of pottery—not celadon work, but the very dark brown stoneware known as onggi, for storing food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a feeling like when there’s a mosquito buzzing around you in the dark: you can’t see it, but you have this general sense of annoying bug somewhere around your body. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold and dark beneath the ice, in the narrow tunnel that crooked and slithered through the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he still leans against me, away from the dark sea and the blackness, as though trying to imprint himself into me so that we become one. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel steered us away from traps, but we had no destination in mind—only away from that dark mountain and the roar of Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fawkes’s lament was still echoing over the dark grounds outside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, she’s gone a lot farther in places much darker than this. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But certain lines in the middle—lines that happened to appear more often than any other—made a slighdy darker image than the rest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She saw a man’s dark shoe on the other side of the circle nudge something round and metallic toward the clump of guards. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She thought that maybe we’d unwittingly outed them, arriving from the South Side with a housewarming gift and our conspicuous dark skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It's so dark I can hardly see my feet, or maybe I got some dirt in my eyes, but the point is no one sees us because there's no one to see us. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The trees are just the same, Leader. There’s a storm coming, though. You can hear the wind. And look. The sky is turning dark. Maybe that’s what you saw.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I guess she couldn't see very well in the dark or she lost her balance, because she fell all the way down the steps. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark with the flame between them they could see each other’s faces. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"And with regard to your brother, there are places darker and more terrible than Kurnugi. Those are the risks you'll be taking." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the rider in the dark armor removed his helm, however, the face beneath was not one that Reek knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d washed her face, but her neck and temples were still dark with grime. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dim light his face and hands were very dark. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if he were afraid of his own dark instincts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As I sang the ancient tune quietly to myself, I realized it was the refrain Mamá had sung to us to soothe our nerves on dark, rainy nights when we were very young. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, older sister, I won’t tell,” I said, grinning We ran through the dark, laughing all the way back to the cottage. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined the gym, dark and covered with streamers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was so dark I couldn’t see two feet in front of us, but Annabeth and I had restocked on flashlights. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first the tail was very thin, but then it became thicker and brighter, glowing red and yellow in the dark sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s so much darker than her husband, but lucky for her he doesn’t seem to mind—of course who knows how long that will last. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark space behind the pillar there was enough light for Chess to see the heart on the paper. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at me with her white skull’s face and her dark eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She left them behind, spinning in the dark, with no moorings, in a place with no foundation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would wait by the bridge at night and kill those unlucky enough to cross after dark. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, the creature stiffened and sank from view, slime closing over its head, a slick of dark blood the only sign it had ever been there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But at darkest midnight when all was silent in the house two great snakes came crawling into the nursery. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back doors swung open, and in the dark we were marched up some concrete steps and through metal doors into another security facility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coffeehouse was filled with shadows and dark noises. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though he has climbed into a dark box hung inside a column of pure light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair stuck up in every direction. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The room was dimly lighted, almost dark, but at the far end of the aisle Linda’s white casket was illuminated by a row of spotlights up in the ceiling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was extraordinarily dark—a blue that was almost black. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now she pushed back a stray lock with dirty fingers, leaving a dark streak on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The sun created a halo around it, making the moon’s surface dark and mysterious in comparison with its shining rim. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat saw the man with her then—a tall, handsome chap, with dark hair sweeping back in a widow’s peak and smiling dark eyes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and left the warmth of the circle, jogging down the corridor and retreating into the dark corner of our camp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Inside were a wallet of dark brown leather, two tampons wrapped in plastic, a pack of gum, and a lipstick. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was dark inside and he walked with caution. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eye fitted on dark glasses in preparation for going outside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then a loud clap of thunder echoed from the dark clouds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The dark surface of the water was disturbed by trout that had been planted there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and they grow dark little mustaches. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sky was just growing dark and I kept looking up into the air as if every batter was hitting me a fly ball. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They lay on the edge of the pit, straining their eyes into the dark floor area below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t make it back in time, she would be voiceless until dark fell and a new hundred were born in her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then at night she followed him on these dark, long walks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The whole family would go down to Ocean Park Beach after dark, when the grunion were running, and build a big fire on the sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could have you dragged out of here,” Shomari said, eyes growing dark. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the competition, Fischer looked Abraham Lincoln-thin; his cheeks were hollow, and he had deep, dark circles under his eyes, all indicating that he might be ill. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A new society was emerging—one that had its roots in the dark history of slavery but was also moving into the future. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had darker skin and black hair, and their general appearance was disheveled, primitive. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It grows dark. Your father will be coming home from his work. Holy Mary watch over thee and the child.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way through the queen’s gallery, where the tapestries with their wordless stories hung dark and silent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She still had on her hijab and her work clothes, dark, long, loose pants and a brown cotton tunic top. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A dassie screamed as it was killed by some unknown predator in the dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she pulled her hands away, the vine was stained dark with blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It's dark, though, and only a small bit of light filters through the window, so I could be wrong. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They sail at dark and fish all night so they must play in the afternoon. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, he hands her the phone, and after a moment’s hesitation, he gets out of bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry swayed where he stood: The dark, foul-smelling room seemed to close around him again; he did not know what had just happened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark, he hungered to see, and only after the fiercest fight to keep his eyes open did he fall asleep. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At my old circus we always got up when it was still dark and then we had breakfast and we walked in a circle. And then they chained my feet up, and that really hurt.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

‘My people were brought from the great plains, and the dark, green jungles,’ he said once to Mr. Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“White or dark?” she asked, looking me dead in the eye and not recognizing me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maria had to cover her mouth to keep the giggles from spilling out into the dark passage. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway was a dark hole. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I'm now on an examining bench in a dark room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We were told to wear dark pants and a white shirt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The dusk was falling and already the tree forms were dark against the sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Men were standing, dark, at the entrance to the kiva; the ladder went down into tire red lighted depths. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although, when he opened his eyes, he was surprised how dark it was. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He found a blanket and started pulling hay over himself for warmth as the sky got darker. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For instance, the type found in Florida went by the Latin name of Athene cunicularia floridana and had darker feathers than the Western variety. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the other side of this rocky wall there would be a dark circle, a glowing fire, and meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He has my father’s dark hair and hooked nose and my mother’s green eyes and dimpled cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This time the hallway is deserted, an expanse of dark blue carpeting and white wooden doors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was plastered to his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I stepped over the broken pieces of door into the chill, damp dark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look with Slant’s eyes down the length of this dark hold, and I see men involved in speech and exhalation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He seemed respectable enough: neat striped suit, dark hair, briefcase between his feet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By dark, they had maneuvered it up beside the cabin next to Cole’s totem. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The dark, strong arms of a stranger paddled us forward while I shuddered with cold dread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really love the way lit windows pop like stars when it gets dark out. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My journal entries grew darker and more disturbing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I keep rowing until I get opposite the dark boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The face of the man she was carrying was completely obliterated by dressings, with a dark oval hole for his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The morning of the fourth day dawned low and dark. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry woke extremely early the next morning; so early that it was still dark. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The thought of being inside the dark cloak revolted him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just after dark, Kyle and his teammates put on their opening ceremonies costumes and headed out to the motel’s central courtyard. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was still dark inside my room and even darker outside, though I knew it would be morning soon. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She leaned against the hood of the El Camino, smoking her cigarette and blowing smoke into the dark night sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the dead hours Frodo came out of a deep dark sleep to find Sam shaking him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even in the daytime it seems dark; and at night, when the lights are on, this darkness pervades everything, like a fog. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After passing through a warren of muddy lanes we came to the head of a dark alley. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even dark as it was, I could still see the gray tracks the tears that had run down his cheeks left. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When she described him—kind eyes, brown hair, a glow like a TV in a dark room, white robes—Ellie gasped and said, “Oh my God, you saw Jesus.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the crowds circling the dead in the mornings, heard the wailing in the halls when a second shifter lost a pocketbook to quick hands in the dark. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up to the elbows, glimmered eerily in the half dark and his tan skin seemed almost black. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The door closed behind them, and the corridor went dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rough voices, thin as an insect’s whine, were cast across the black river, the dark town, the shapes of ships on the water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He stood by the grave at the end of the world, and in that place he invoked the darkest of runes and called on old powers, long forgotten. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We stumble across in the dark and as though he had been spat there every man lies glued behind a mound. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he might lie down there in that dark place where sea and mountain met and sleep, sleep on the restless rocking water. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would be dark before they knew it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When Creüsa’s time had come she went all alone to that same dark cave, and there her son was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a dark crevice between two great piers of rock they sat down: Frodo and Sam a little way within, and Gollum crouched upon the ground near the opening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Between this present dark and one day’s ebb, after the wane, before the crescent moon, Odysseus will come.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside him the thick dark liquid slid sinuously through his veins. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Norris?” breathed Ron, squinting through the dark. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His jacket and pants blend into the night, but his bright persimmon cravat burns like a flame in the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The spearhead went in his throat and exploded out the back of his neck, dark and wet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His beard and nose stuck out through the cheekplates, and his eyes, in the shadowed recess of the helmet, were like two dark holes in a tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see leaves of the trees dark and sharp against the blue sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Since he was lost in the dark without hope, and could neither go on nor back, Bilbo accepted the challenge; and they asked one another many riddles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes flash to mine, and I can't tell if he's defending or insulting me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The depths had been icy and dark, but now a bright sun spoke to our souls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at night I dreamed of the eastward-flowing stream my aunt had warned me about, the dark waters that changed a person forever. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

From above, it resembled some fabulous dusky jewel, fallen between a green mantle of light silk and dark velvet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I never forgot that only my older sister’s complexion was as dark as mine. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate mumbled something about having a son my age, pulled me out of my dark jail cell after just two days, and marched me down to the orphanage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The projecting point of one strand had lacerated his neck and drops of blood, dark and red as yew berries, welled one by one down his shoulder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but besides that, with a little blood on their faces and dark circles under their eyes, they’re perfect lunatics,” Roli says proudly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The night was very dark and far-off noises carried in clearly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark inside and they were immediately met by the unmistakable aroma of lavender and lemon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went a couple slow, dark miles without seeing another vehicle or any welcoming roadside establishment. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His throat had been split, and the dirt was dark beneath him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We had a good head start, because it was dark in the room now, and they kept reaching for the doorknob and not finding it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wraps the book with a length of fine wool yarn dyed a deep crimson, bits of it stained darker with something dried and brown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A dark young face, his lips locked to keep down any cry of pain. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A house bewitched, carved out of the dark woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the storm I could see the giant—just small glimpses of his true form: a smoky arm, a dark clawed hand the size of a city block. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The basement was big, paneled in dark wood, with a wine-red carpet and at least one hundred folding chairs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

To my left, under the windows, was a dark wooden counter the length of the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting alone in the dark, his leg aching, some mosquitos finding him again, he started crying. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max and I take apart the sofa, stripping off its upholstery, washing the dark green cloth in three soapings of hot water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had to watch the goats and chickens more closely, but other than the gloomy, dark days, winter wasn’t terrible. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a rain hat and dark glasses and what appeared to be several jackets layered on top of one another, which made him look both fat and vaguely transient. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In a few hours it would be dark, and he could go after them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the rush, got his knife out and lunged at one dark figure and felt his knife go home, and then he was swept to his knees and swept again to the ground. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a million fireflies, sparks fly across the dark city, inseminating every place they land with a germ of fire. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I mean to say . . . yes, thank you, that would be most kind. I am tired, and the way is so dark. I should be glad for some protection." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My loneliness feels like a dark cloud that could be trapped and put in a jar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing else about my appearance would concern me so much as the fact that my complexion was dark. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have chin-length, wavy brown hair, a pale, round face, and thick, dark eyebrows. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was dark, you understand; I couldn’t really see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The locksmith brings back a shirtful of vegetables and fills a tin bucket at a spigot and eases shut the barn door and feeds his daughter in the dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Often all the kids in the village would come and sit outside our house when it got dark, hoping she would tell a story. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crocodile Guts suddenly stood in the doorway of the dark hut! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chilled by his face and his voice and his smile, they got up silently and followed him through the doorway into the dark long hallway which led back to the front hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lunged at the door; he landed on his hands and knees in the dark outside the toilet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Passengers in dark, square cars shuttered their eyes at what they took to be a drunken man. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The deputy appointed to watch him through the dark hours—a retired sawyer named William Stenesen—had shone a flashlight on him just before midnight and inquired if he was faring well. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been concentrating so hard that she was surprised how quickly they seemed to reach the village, which was almost completely dark. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I snort and Connor twists to peer up at me, his eyes brown and sweet beneath a dark fringe of lashes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My trunk was carried through shadowy hallways to a guest room that was richly furnished but oppressively dark. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are very dark and framed by long lashes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I know that a lot of time must have passed because later on, when I opened my eyes again, I could see that it was dark outside the window. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sweating in his dark suit the way the white men had stained their white uniforms, but his face gleamed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a mung bean my body stretched up toward the great grow lamp in the sky, and my case was even more significant because I continued to grow in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But then Alec appeared out of the dark gloom of the trees, his face hidden in shadow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The building’s corridors were dark and pocked with too many doors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Someone told me that the night is dark and full of terrors. What do you see in those flames?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she glowed in the dark. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was no drop to the tracks—the rails started at the end of the steps and jetted into the dark tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jacquel turned and looked at him with dark brown eyes as quizzical and cold as a desert dog’s. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They no longer competed to see who could make the biggest puddle when they urinated, and Blanca did not tell him of the dark matter that stained her underwear once a month. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark I sense a hand searching for me, finally finding my arm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night I had a bad dream, though. Someone was chasing me in a dark alley. I crawled into Maman’s bed and we cried ourselves to sleep.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The image wavered, curling at the edges as the door disappeared behind the dark smoke that spewed through its cracks and joints. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded red shirt, ragged, dusty, and dark pants ragged around his legs. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The helper worked in the shadows beyond the dark mountain range; he worked with the black sand, making bear prints side by side. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot be sure, because it is too dark to see clearly. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She swept as hard as she could, and then immediately dusted all the dark shiny wood of the furniture. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t like to sleep when it’s dark out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle stopped for a moment and looked at one of the pictures, a black-and-white photograph of an actress with very dark eyes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A dark gray cloud was rolling straight at him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The pumpkin was a thick, dark, good-smelling mass in the kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every step in the dark night brought her closer to Wash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to say that my future appeared the worst of them all, dark and unhappy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“She has a very dark, almost black, head,” he said, “and her eyes are quite large—larger than most peregrines’. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sun is gone, the room is dark. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He froze, nose to nose with his own scared-looking reflection in the dark glass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When the I ion had first begun singing, king ago when it w as still quite dark, he had realized that the noise w is a song. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And the dull, sullen sound of the boatmen’s bamboo poles as they thudded against the dark, oiled boatwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the handsomest, with the darkest black hair and straightest black eyebrows. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I hate this wandering around in the dark.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, they would be sailing day and night, and they needed to get beyond the limit of floating ice: if they rammed a chunk in the dark, their journey would be a short one. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It helped that his clothing and his woolen hat, stolen back in Gilju, were the dark green of army uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His entire face crinkles when he smiles, and his dark brown eyes are little star-filled night skies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It won’t be dark for hours yet, but I light the candles on the mantelpiece and open the second bottle of Merlot to let it breathe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rolled in clouds of dark smoke like the thunder of the summer thunderstorms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody—with a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The dark, reflective surface was a crucial part of the concept. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Summer raised his head from Bran's lap, and gazed at the mudman with his dark golden eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a portrait of a very plain dark woman on the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakedness between. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can remember are the worst things, the darkest things. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rachel first, throwing back her dark curls and showing the spaces where her pretty little teeth had been only last summer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It scuffled savagely and for an instant the three rabbits saw its round, dark eyes looking straight down the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party towers were dark under the almost full moon, and the fireworks all shimmering hues of blue, climbing so high that they exploded in silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of clouds masked the stars and the moon, and it was very dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he approached the cave, he sang the song which she had taught him: There is a rock here and the cave is dark. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When it got dark and a river of stars flowed overhead, we spread out our sleeping bags and laid down on them and talked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was truly a load off my mind when I could tell that, even with it dark as it was in the stable, she didn’t have four arms atall! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At last the lanterns along the garden walk were snuffed out, and the room was dark. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was quite dark, with tapestry over the windows, and he had no headache because his constitution was good. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lorena says her hair is dyed dark red, but I don’t see any girls with red hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A fleet of a dozen speedboats raced through the dark water toward Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They will make the upper world as dark as my realm! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Irene didn’t answer, and in the dark I couldn’t quite make out what face she had on. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Office/Camp Shop was the sturdiest of the structures we had passed so far, built in a more permanent style than the smaller log cabins with their dark green doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was so dark in the bar I could hardly make out anything except Doreen. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he pulled into Lily’s driveway, the house was dark. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The night is dark and looming, heavy and warm. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Outside, crossing the lawn, on his way to work, he tried not to see how completely dark and deserted Clarisse McClellan's house was... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brooding his friend asked, “Are there names in the dark realms?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Fiver’s urging had penetrated his dark, ebbing stupor, he had at first actually tried not to respond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had straight black hair, odd big brown eyes, and dark brown skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her skin was as dark and shiny as a wet street, and so was her hair. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was dark when their keel finally scraped over the rocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

From outside, they could see its dark head alert in the gloom, the black eyes still watchful. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground is so dark and wet that it seems very unlikely there are actual flowers under there ready to burst through in just a few more weeks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a control room, but it’s out in the open, and I’m not sure what they’re observing here, since all the screens are dark. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Because if so, then that means that one day girls like me—the darkest of black—could be seen as pretty too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I look out the door and down the dark driveway. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even with her dark skin, he could see the blood was draining from her face, and she looked weaker and weaker by the second. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His lips spread wide, revealing a gray molar with a dark pit in the side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their deep, dark eyes gazed down on me with such penetrating grief and wisdom I did not doubt they peered into my very heart. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The future is as dark, as unreal, as the past. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my way to the back of this cave, which I dug into the side of the hill to keep our food dark and cool. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Second wore dark green pajamas, and her black hair flowed loosely around her shoulders, blending into the curves of her back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pippin lay in a dark and troubled dream: it seemed that he could hear his own small voice echoing in black tunnels, calling Frodo, Frodo! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a chunky boy, with short legs, thick arms, and a wide red face—a miniature version of his father, with a shock of dark brown hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her name is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time and lots of makeup she gets free from selling Avon. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked up past the house to the dark brush line and took a drink of water from the tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive down the dark, empty road behind the grocery store to where Batavia’s mythic Lincoln Tree once stood. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And suddenly everyone paused, turning, looking off into the dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun never set, and even when there was fog it was never dark. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her camp is dark and empty when I get there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw a dark red spray of blood on the goalie shirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how totally in the dark we were about our situation. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unpack my dark skinny jeans, the slightly wrinkled black silk camisole I borrowed from Violet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There is no electricity so it is dark, except for the area that is illuminated by sunlight pouring in through the glassless windows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t even hear the door as it slams him inside the dark room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had deep lines beside his mouth and dark brooding eyes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a dark, young fellow, not much older than Rab, and something in both his color and carriage had always made Johnny think of Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Jason thought the ghoul’s curly dark hair was disintegrating. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She held the curtain as I stepped in, then she let it drop and all was dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beak first, a dark and secret complex, a personality disorder let loose on the world, it plunges! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a dark secret, black or brown or blue—I can’t tell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair, and Simply said, she was beautiful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was much darker and the moon was high, and then ahead there was an officer, a staff officer, sitting on a black horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Light or dark, the particles still fly off the surfaces of things.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The glacier and the dark land of grief will always be there behind us. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"This is Valyrian steel," he said when the link of dark grey metal lay against the apple of his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As she peered out into the dark morning and chewed on her bread, she thought about her dream. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the window, but it was even darker than the night. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, she got dark, stood as on a wire, and made her way around the desk. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

An infrared camera will take photographs in the dark, when we cannot see, and it will also take photographs in daylight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Debris swirled in the dark waters—a deflated birthday balloon, a child’s pacifier, a little plastic bride and groom from the top. of a cake—all the remnants of human lives cut short. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally it got too dark to see much anymore, so we headed home. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You see, the dark corridors I ran through felt like a lumpy mattress, the kind I detest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I did remember the sleek black car, the glass in the windows darker than that on a limousine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before I even knew where I was, I found myself pulled along by somebody’s hand in the dark and a horrible fiery sting sloshing up my calves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars came out and glittered in the dark sky. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on his dark gray, striped, double-breasted suit and his gray hat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The Paper will answer any question in the light of the full moon,” Pinmei said, waving the Paper toward the dark water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his face and shook out his dark curls with his hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But when he woke, and it was still dark, it was the other thing he remembered. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The moon had almost set; it was the darkest hour of night. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mother has worked there for as long as I can remember, so I’m not surprised when she leads me down a few dark hallways, up a dank staircase, and into daylight again without interference. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s dark as far as I can see, the only light coming from two open doorways on the right side of the hall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I looked back I noticed something I hadn’t been able to see before the dark lifted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I would be able to, I thought I would be desperate to scrape her out, but when I think about her, all I can see is Libby’s face, her dark eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz was the exception—the picture of restraint, his dark vests and trousers simply cut and tailored along severe lines. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I love the lids of his brown eyes, his smooth dark skin, his lower lip that pushes out. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Baby felt warm and close on his shoulder, and her little silk skirt was white against the dark cloth of his coat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stared into Hestia’s eyes, and an image rushed into my mind: I saw a dark alley between red brick warehouses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The dark, quiet atmosphere was a perfect setting for the mood I was in. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yishan reached deep into his sleeve and fished out his handkerchief, his chopsticks, and, finally, the dark brown mussel. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The roads were paved with stone-flags, dark and hard; and beside their borders instead of trees there marched long lines of pillars, some of marble, some of copper and of iron, joined by heavy chains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But it’s getting darker and colder every minute. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Flecks of gray salt the dark brown bob that curves around her heart-shaped face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nate Crosby’s sandy hair was combed from back to front, and he wore a yellow cardigan and dark gray slacks. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And so, the next night—it was dark as pitch—I burst the meadhall door, killed men, and stormed directly to the door behind which lay the sleeping queen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the night was dark, so it was hard to see where she could toss the grappling hook and have the metal arms hook onto something. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was much cooler here, and so much darker under the trees that it didn’t look like daytime anymore. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud rolls lazily towards her in the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Kvothe shook his head, as if to free himself from some dark thought. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun wasn’t up yet and everything looked like it had been painted in black and dark blue. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He is four now, curls long gone, his dark brown hair straight as a bone, strange to us but our little brother, the four of us again in one place. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance, Catelyn could make out the shining silver thread, bright against the dark stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was even darker out there, the emergency lights just a pale glowing fine running along the upper edges of the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Getting some fresh air. And who goes fishing after dark?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated for him to be away after dark. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark by the time we got to Tennessee. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was dark in the trunk, with only bits of light coming in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the dark and did nothing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the long white lines of the highway stretched out in front of him, broken up by the dark puddles between the streetlights. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She held Coyotito in her arms and sang the song to him, to keep the evil out, and her voice was brave against the threat of the dark music. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled my fingers away, I was only half-surprised to see that they were coated with dark blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard to recognize anyone else, because I didn’t know what kids were wearing what costumes, and the place was so dark and crowded. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the pink streaks looked black. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was dark inside, and little wisps of mist came swirling out as the gap grew wider. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of dark feathers gracefully overlapped each other in perfect rows, the tips painted red, as if licked with fire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She was tired by the walk yesterday,” Masvita said as they hurried through the dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Commandant’s house is dark, but I stick to the shadows anyway. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I see then the cloud of dark hair, the gold skin, which had been obscured by Marcus’s body before. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The truck rumbled along through the dark, over bumpy streets at first, then, at a higher speed, over a smooth highway. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? Why would you sit there in the dark, laughing, doing that?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were as dark as his blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Tall fella, rather dark. Wounded leg. Odd that . . “Jackson tried to court-martial him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few steps into the walk, I see the kid from the roof, leaning against a tree, the same grin, the same dark green hat spinning now on his hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb strode on in front of him, passing a stairway that rose up too steeply, and then a library hoarding shelves of dark volumes—the arts of necromancy, Turner figured. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was, I knew they were buried in that place, but it was so overgrown I could hardly see the names on the stones, and it was getting dark besides. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but Lyddie could see children’s eyes large and staring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my dreams, I stood in a dark cavern before a gaping pit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rope burns left dark scabby welts in half circles. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His face was disfigured now, swollen from bites that oozed a dark fluid. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My eyes are closed, and my dark brown hair is wet and rusty with blood. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stopped and looked in, trying to see in the dark room whether we were really asleep—or was it his imagination that opened eyes were looking at him? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyelashes stood out dark against her cheek. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took off running in my pajamas, through the dark alleys, faster than I’ve ever run in my life. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized the tall spikes of yarrow and its dense clustered blossoms; around them twined the flopping stems of coreopsis, above a carved base of that plant’s mounded dark and feathery leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating a samosa, dipping it into some dark brown sauce on a paper plate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stayed away from the beach intentionally, it seemed to him in his fretfulness, and gradually he became dark and morose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the willow leaves made her skin look mottled and dark, the way the iron deposits streaked the yellow sandstone cliffs dark orange. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A half inch in, the meat was pink and then dark red. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would need to find his way through it in the dark, and this was the only chance he’d have to see it first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He sat in the silence of the deep, dark well, suddenly remembering things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Over the last week, his skin had gotten darker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I could see he looked really serious and tired, but his eyes were kind of smiling. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Singer looked down at the dark front door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She reached out her hands and parted the dark water. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When the dark shadow at the Gate withdrew Gandalf still sat motionless. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I couldn’t see Old Mr. Chou, but he said he would find me, and when he did, he would squish me into the ground. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet Monroe’s Aunt Nettie sat on a step high on the dark upper curve of the stairway that rose from Root’s living room to the second floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Everything is quiet, it’s dark, and as you fall you get this terrifying sense of the increasing velocity of your descent from the sound of the air rushing through your clothing.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bow and quiver of arrows, stood near the dark trunk of an oak, and looked out across the moon-silvered meadow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Added to that, I was being awakened by frightening dreams that involved shouts in the dark, men with bloody hands, and women screaming. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I get up and peek through the blinds, and Theodore Finch is standing in my front yard dressed in pajama bottoms and a dark hoodie. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were dark, but they were speaking too low and in English, so I couldn’t grab an accent or slang to place them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There was a dark patch above his muzzle that made him look like he had a black eye. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their bodies became a collective, a tapestry of wing and wind that fluttered with life, transforming into the figure of a young woman with dark hair and dark eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the light of the moon that slanted into the dark corridor, I saw her eyes narrow. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It would be at least four hours before it was dark and the cucos came out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The brownish-green husks, oozing their dark purple stain, were beaten off on a flat rock outside the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark warmth of that house Ged spent the winter, hearing the rush of rain and wind outside or the silence of snowfall, learning to write and read the Six Hundred Runes of Hardic. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pale brown sugar, not dark brown like the maple sugar Ma used for every day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it began to get dark, the helicopters switched on powerful searchlights and trained them on to the galloping giant so as to keep him in sight. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see dark shapes moving closer to Michigan Avenue, but they disappear behind the row of buildings without stopping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And her own mom, even, getting, home from work about now to a dark and empty house. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On some vacant land nearby, he could while away long summer days by digging elaborate underground tunnels—cool, dark, subterranean retreats from Spokane’s sometimes searing dry heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The glass windows I pass reflect a distorted vision of myself—face elongated, dark jeans stretched too long, black gloves, beat-up boots, faded red scarf wrapped around my black hoodie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s dress was beautiful, too; a dark blue calico with autumn-colored leaves scattered over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house's wooden walls and floor were as dark and slick as the inside of a turtle's den. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One eluded our grasp and toppled through the dark, a thing flapping, but too ungainly to fly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But when she did, something caught her eye—a glimpse of something pale, something white, glowing in the dark recesses under the couch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was deeply dark here, like everywhere else. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Behind them was the backdrop of dark woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He saw a small, dark shape struggling its way through the snow toward the lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me, Laia inches forward, her hand outstretched as she feels her way through the dark. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had always been a dark woman, her skin ruddy and brown when she worked in the fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

First, Dad’s video camera wasn’t one of the newer models, so the picture was lousy when it was dark outside. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was much darker in complexion, and her hands too were brown. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s dark in my place, too,” he said, “but you won’t be by yourself.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's the incinerator door, still closed, but leading to a dark, scary room down in the building's basement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Several hours must have passed as it was now completely dark. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out a dark bottle of peroxide and bandages and placed them on the counter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the swamp until well after dark. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to shrug off a dark feeling I was getting and recapture the warm sense of justice: Sarah and Daniel, earless too. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Startled, he opened his eyes, but the room was dark as before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Maya felt very small sitting in the dark. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I have said already my parents are entirely in the dark about certain things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broad shoulders and dark golden brown skin that was much like mine, as well as wavy black hair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a middling color, darker than mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The answer drew Ophie’s gaze away from her milk and into the dark, lined face of her great-aunt. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Apples dipped in caramel so dark they appeared almost blackened but remained light and crisp and sweet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And then you looked at the belly of the bird, which was spouting thick red blood all over the dark feathers. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean was warmer than the air, but I didn’t love swimming away from the boat in that dark water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside that was a dark couch covered with rows of books. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Without the dark parts it’s just some silly f—” Chronicler froze halfway through the word, eyes darting nervously to the side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The night before my first day of senior year at East Shoal High School, I sat behind the counter at Finnegan’s diner, my eyes scanning the dark windows for signs of suspicious movement. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Portuguese were so shocked, evidently, that they stripped the gentle Kongo and chained them down in rows, in the dark, for the passage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of Mrs. Murdo down there in the dark, being bumped and pushed, with her arms wrapped tightly around Poppy, trying to protect her, and all at once everything seemed clear. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was too dark for her to really see me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was so dark now we literally couldn’t see ten steps ahead of us as we walked toward the woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was dark of course, because of the shutters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The hardness of the camp, the coldness of the dark night, the death of Dapir, all slam through me like a barrel bomb, ripping my heart to pieces. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just leave him where he is and let’s go get the lion hounds before it gets dark.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie was angry with herself for being scared, but now she just couldn’t take her eyes off the dark hilltop. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the dark he could hear and smell the rustling and crowding of rabbits—both bucks and does—ahead of him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hideo is leaning over a table, his head down in concentration, his dark hair tussled. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sole is bulging and dark, with a red line running around the edge. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When she does that, we’ll run for the Weapons Lab, unseen by the cameras in the dark. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark outside, and his snow-white shirt shone in the gathering twilight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sky was touched with purple now, and the snow shone brightly against the dark background. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could feel him smiling in the dark and a smile of my own formed on my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Jon turned it sideways, he could see the ripples in the dark steel where the metal had been folded back on itself again and again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other girls, she had a silver circlet braided into the top of her long dark hair, so she looked like some kind of Persian princess. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He would miss their voices, their bright dark eyes, the rumble of their feet up and down the stairs, their squeals and constant singing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Bridge had never put it into words before, but she wanted to, and the dark helped. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He knew how to navigate their dark borderland. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The jacket was multicolored, made of large patches sewn together — some dark blue, some deep purple, a few bright red. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Inej turned her dark eyes on him, then shook her head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Over Drumner in the dark now a great table of dull fire burns. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room is cold, dark, barely illuminated with a faint green glow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Last night I sold out of carnation and wildflower bundles well before dark. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I look up, I can see the dark form of the Indian Princess. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You know I don’t want you out after dark. The streets are dangerous. What if something were to happen?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The jacket of the dark charcoal suit fit him perfectly, as did his trousers, which must have been retailored from their lanky western proportion to flatter his short Korean legs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

These small details spring out from the thickest brush and shadows, but the larger pieces stay crouched in hiding, and the largest piece of all lurks in the deepest, darkest cave, pacing and putrid. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Naomi tilted her head up so she could see the outlines of his face in the dark. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was indoors, in a dark old building that smelled of popcorn. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Omakayas heard a loud scream, her own scream, and pain blotted her sight then as she swirled into the dark. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Streaking past me, just right there in front of me, goes a dark face in a black hoodie. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then one night, long after dark, she tossed the laptop and her phone into the Thames. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was dark and awfully hot in there. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A heavy thing like a box, with dark damaged spaces along the edges that must have been for filigree and jeweled settings, though someone had torn most of that off a long time ago. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The dark Edward in my dream last night was a reflection only of my fear of the word Jacob had spoken, and not Edward himself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay half in a dream, imagining that endless dark wings were sweeping by above him, and that on the wings rode pursuers that sought him in all the hollows of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seven wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, or her fear, or both, but the world seemed to get colder and darker all at once. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The house does have its little oddities,” he continued, holding the door so that they might pass through into the dark room beyond. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tears stung the back of my eyes, and I was glad it was too dark for Doc or my brother to see. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dark night was lit by flashes of lightning. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It reared against the dark sky, its hideous, gaping mouth wide enough to swallow an entire elephant. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That event evidently took place too recently for the colonists to evolve dark skins, distinct language families, or genetic distinctiveness or diversity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It gave Taisin’s hair a halo of deep, dark red; it made her face glow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He picked up the flashlight in his mouth and trotted off into the dark. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Across the nation families were eating dinner in the dark, the way we used to do on Seminole under one lightbulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not openings or breaks, but dark fissures in the globe light of the day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime I searched the dark of the river for Lupito. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them wanted—not then—the grape’s easy relinquishing of all its dark juice. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see my own father, almost unrecognizable in a dark suit, standing near Aaron and Rocco. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Then I followed the dog, well, I tried to, but it got dark, and the path, well, kind of path, just led me to...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

With dark looks at Worsley, as though they held the navigator responsible, the men brought the boats into the wind again and continued sailing. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It is clear to me that they wanted to stop Crouch from seeing Dumbledore and you were probably feet away from them in the dark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We ate the crackers we’d left there. But after a while the candles burned down and went out. It was so dark. And cold. We told each other stories, we sang songs...” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Horrific as it was, the present dark, I was afraid to leave it for the other, permanent dark—jelly and bloat, the muddy pit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We both looked back to the dark water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She tented her hand over her eyes, trying to make him out in the dark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hoped it was too dark in the hall for Emma or Chess to notice. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mam- machi was almost blind and always wore dark glasses when she went out of the house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coals under the ashes on the dark hearth she fanned to life until a cheerful fire was burning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s father and their lawyer, Nathaniel Blackwood, entered together, wearing dark three-piece suits and ties. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Citra was not a girl who could endure being in the dark for long. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The jovial innkeeper was gone, and in his place stood someone dark and fierce. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When at last day came to Braavos, it came grey and dark and overcast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On his left cheek, an ugly raised scar ran all the way from the corner of his eye into the depths of his dark beard. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She's a little younger than him, skin slightly darker, long black hair woven in a tress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her thick, dark eyebrows were knitted together and somehow made a lovely contrast to the frothy, bridal white. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A makeweightflying to the void Supplemental asteroid Or compensatory spark Shoots across the neutral dark. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost my sense of time, just standing in the dark. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The lad flushed a high dark red and his eyes shone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Many people in Pakistan have been told that the United States is a dark and godless place, but everyone I met there was quite nice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All its feathers were spread out, and you could see how Audubon got their pattern down—three rows of long, overlapping dark feathers, tipped white at the ends. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her big dark eyes were wide and begging. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hair and mustache being dark, he looked years younger without the gray beard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a dress of gauze and her dark hair was carried up in combs of ivory, combs of shell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the sky, where a long dark plume of smoke rose above the rooftops and long graceful necks of sauropods. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The father came home and went into the dark room to give Lucia her daily food pittance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night came on and the half-seen heads of the mountains westward were crowned with stars, but the East was dark and blank. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Yevdokia was always there on the dark airfield to give instructions to the women who were flying that night, and to hear their reports when they returned. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We went through the forest and the road came out and turned along a rise of land, and out ahead of us was a rolling green plain, with dark mountains beyond it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Heavy iron bars separated them from where the captives were crowded together in the dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I knew her face too, small and oval, the clear white skin, the cloud of dark hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The houses around us are all quiet and dark, everyone still sleeping at seven o’clock on a Sunday morning. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On and on she walked, and the streets became darker and emptier. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I see lightning illuminate the dark mountains like the flashbulb on my camera. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The dark of the moon that follows first after Sunreturn is called the Fallows, and is the contrary pole of the days of the Moon and the Long Dance in summer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Its white light quickened swiftly, and the shadows under the dark arch fled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They sit on a narrow table in the small dark room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We end up walking silently in the dark until we get to the third floor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Buford went to a great shade tree and stood in the dark for a moment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Baba arrived home long after dark. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was full dark before they reached the stout castle that stood at the foot of the Giant's Lance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first thing he noticed was that the gull’s head was molting and turning white, though a dark brown patch remained behind each eye. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt almost sacrilegious addressing this boyish man—in an open- neck T-shirt and jeans faded so much I could not tell if they had been black or dark blue—as Father. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the little dark face and dark hand, but I did not see him move or hear him cry. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Seen from the outside, such clouds seem dark and gloomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He intended to have Mig put chains on the princess’s hands and her feet, and he intended to keep the glittering, glowing, laughing princess there in the dark. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I pedaled my bike in the dark to the end of Smith Street, turning onto King, the road that ran into the ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It felt a little strange to be going out into the dark with such a small grown-up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ben went to the dark place on the wall where the mirror used to be, rubbing his hands on it and slobbering and moaning. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late at night, Lolo used to tell me and my cousins ghost stories in the dark. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the dark she put her arms around him and held him very close. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The inside of the chapel was dark, and Bod found himself squinting as he tried to see. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t dark—there were windows that let in plenty of light. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the Mexican going on for sure: brown skin and thick brown hair that was lighter than Mom’s but darker than Dad’s and that I usually wore in two braids. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was weird to be there, in that clammy dark bar in Vermont, and watching them play. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And as Lee turned the telescope on it again, he saw darker, smaller shapes behind it in the shimmering distance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-grey hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but after a few seconds Genie’s eyes adjusted and he could see his grandfather. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glared at him, her dark almond eyes only a few inches from his. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I peered back through the drizzle, I thought I spied a dark figure weaving among the tombstones. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his head he heard only the dark music of the enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the dark red dawn the sun was mounting the horizon clouds and sparkled upon the dew on the rising wheat and barley. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The foyer feels cool and dark as they walk down the hall, reading the gold-lettered names and titles on the doors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mood inside Ford’s became dark, ugly, and menacing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark crypts below Winterfell, a stonemason was chiseling out his father's likeness in granite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was tall, dark, and handsome, and seemed to be wearing a tuxedo. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bought him a cigar, so we drove around until it begun to get dark on the back streets where they wouldn’t see him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was it doing here in this dark netherworld? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Where you going?” someone whispers at me from the dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Just over that dark line of hills, her comrades in the Twelfth Legion were preparing for a needless attack. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The road was dark, but a distant light rose over the familiar cliffs of the river valley. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Someone tripped over a mattress and went down, and then I heard a scuffle break out in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We walked down the moonlit trail toward a dark and misty shore, a surreal place, a place somewhere between sleep and wakefulness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She said he could ride two blocks away, but by the time it was dark, he had explored six blocks in each direction. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she realized she could actually make out a comer of his roof in the dark. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was accustomed to the giddy ripples of fear that attended race days, but today they had a darker feel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall and thin—with dark curly hair framing her face in a halo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had what no citizen of Ember had ever had before—a way to see in the dark. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She held up her wrist; on it he made out a small dark bruise. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The men in dark trousers, white jackets, and fedoras. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I found an empty booth in a dark corner. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes are insistent as he says, “Run.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

First, he kick-started a craze for extravagant, Hallowe’en-style music, full of dark, deep, crashingly loud chords and abrasive strings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All around, the scent deep and rich as the darkest chocolate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Behind the mountains the sky was overcast, dark as slate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Inside was a white paste, thick and heavy, with dark red veins running through it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was just starting to relax when a man in a dark uniform jangling with medals walked over to the woman. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that night after dark, when he sneaked into bed with me and Little Arliss, I let him sleep there and never said a word about it to Mama. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I reach out, tap the words with a finger, and the world around me goes dark. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These woods were dense and dark and dreadful. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A long, dark hallway with no birds, no Pixies. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was cold, and we had to get up early in the dark. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the lord of the dark world below carried her away she was never again the gay young creature who had played in the flowery meadow without a thought of care or trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidal waves were rising and, like starving mouths, swallowing morsels of land down dark blue throats. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The two old ladies saw a man, authoritative in his dark western suit, start to fill the front of the car. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the curb of a dark, quiet intersection. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Lelia sits up to go to the bathroom, waits for a second, then runs through the dark. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the dirty little diner, filled with light in a dark city. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even with the glow cast by her dagger, it was too dark to see below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, it got cold and uncomfortable in the back of the dark U-Haul. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their arms were piled up with the delicious dark cakes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She saw him for a moment, all black and green, the blood on his face dark as tar, his eyes glowing like a dog's in the sudden glare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark, she thought she could tell one color from another, because she knew its pattern and design so well. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s skinny, in sweatpants and a white T-shirt covered, from the neck down, with an unidentifiable dark stain. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The country was dry, and the hills were covered with dark lava rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood and looked at him, and then looked down into the dark and then looked back at Chamberlain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adjusting my eyes to the tomblike dark and quiet, I shift around, shivering under the thin blanket. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There were dark circles under his bloodshot eyes, his skin an almost grayish color. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I collapsed down in Clancy’s office chair and pressed my face against the dark wood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It filled the church, as though the church had merely become a hollow or a void, echoing with the voices that had driven her to this dark place. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That big fin all wobbly and weak, and blood coming from the place where the barb went in, and the shiny dark eye staring at me, as if to say, look what you did. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I called and called in the dark.“Mom! How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One wall was dark blue, another pale yellow, and then two white ones. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They may have been no more than sharp ridges in the walls of the passage, but to the slave, alone and frightened in the dark, they seemed alive and snapping. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the dark, we couldn’t see where we were stepping. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my head, I start making plans about where we can spend the night if the rain is still this bad once it gets dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was dark, his mouth quivered between words. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost full dark, and my tooth hurt and my ankle throbbed and I’d spilled what was left of the tin on the ground beside my legs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Someone hands him a dark bottle, and he lifts it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lee looked past him into the soft blowing dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, her dark hair falling down around her face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The whole wide world spun under me, trying to pull me back down to its dark center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet and dark; there was no moon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a dark mansion and he was pleased to see a rosebush near the fence bursting with red blooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She had to make up time, not blunder around in the dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The motel room was darker than it had been when I first walked in; we must have been well into night now. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It is not the aim of this work to discuss the dark days that preceded the wizards’ retreat into hiding. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a cap made out of the same dark fur and was winding his little finger around Second Wife’s long pearl necklace. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Meggie switched it on, the beam of light fell on the boy’s dark face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She felt as though she were a dark rain cloud about to drench the earth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A strand of something dark caught my eye. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite portrait is of a woman who is thick like me, and dark brown like coffee beans. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘No, he is gone,’ said Éowyn turning away and looking at the mountains dark against the East and South. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He lay down in his bunk and was quiet in the dark. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were dark purple, as if the clear blue water of their life source had condensed and thickened inside them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering as it came and the fish swam steadily and the boat moved slowly through the dark water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one dark red leg that they could see ended in a webbed foot and three powerful, taloned toes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I look across the dining room, and three of the younger people—the big girl, the girl with dark hair and blue streak, and the blond girl with cuts—are all sitting together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been such a rainy May, and the basement felt appropriately cryptlike: cobwebs around the doorframe ghosting our faces, that smell of dirt and rot and trapped air, and it was dark, totally dark. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The result is a characteristic pattern of light and dark fringes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he saw sky at all, it was only through the holes in the sides of the crate; everything else was dark and close, smelling of blood and waste. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She came down the steps and disappeared into the dark beyond the columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She is short, thin, and blond, with dark circles under her eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a second his dark eyes are on mine, and he’s quiet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Only another hour, two at the most, and it would be dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dark and hooded, her mouth unsmiling. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rang and he admitted his wife, a dark, attractive, European white woman who carried a book under her arm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time the door flew open, and from the dark interior a hoarse voice inquired, “Have you ever heard a whole set of dishes dropped from the ceiling onto a hard stone floor?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose she got there and stayed so long that it was dark when she was ready to leave and Father Franco told her to spend the night there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As I rinse the tofu in the sink, I am startled by a dark mass that appears suddenly at the window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we slow down in the more congested part of the city, I see scores of little shops, dark inside, lined with counters and shelves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of the dark circles under her eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He landed on the back of the dark furred neck, clinging with his monkeylike hind legs while he raked his claws across the cub’s eyes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed her how to look for a dark rock with a circle of white around it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walked quickly through the dark, quiet streets. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Dark ways, doubtless,’ said Gimli, ‘but no darker than these staves are to me.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Callum stood, raking his floppy brown hair out of his dark brown eyes, blushing and smiling at his friends. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They can hear real good in the dark, so watch out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the curtains breathing out of the dark upon my face, leaving the breathing upon my face. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color still hadn’t seeped back into his face, save for the halo of dark circles around his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” said Luke grimly, “but we have a positive policy against going outside after dark. Arthur may, of course, if he cares to, but I will not.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We settle on jeans and a black-and-white-striped shirt with my dark blond hair spread out across my shoulders. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The animal noises in the dark forest, the branches snapping and singing, reminded her of their flight, and then of Lovey disappearing into the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The owl’s pure-white plumage was broken only by a few brown bars on the wing and some dark spots on the crown. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Just as she managed to push the door open, the carriage rolled into the courtyard, and the carriage lantern shone into the dark doorway. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark passage outside the courtrooms was packed with tall, black-hooded figures, their faces completely hidden, their ragged breathing the only sound in the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He put one knee on the fish and cut strips of dark red meat longitudinally from the back of the head to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair, dark now with grime, was glued across his forehead. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At fifty-one she was still slender and pretty, with curly black hair, dark eyes, a large nose, a sparkling smile, and a bowlegged walk you could see a mile off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Moody arrived in the morning so they could walk to school together, Pearl would emerge from her room wearing one of Lexie’s button-downs, or a spaghetti-strap tank, or dark red lipstick. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they did. And both of them remarked about how sometimes it was darker than other times.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba tugged at my sleeve and some­thing glowed green in the dark. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is there waiting for him behind a glassed-in partition on the sidewalk, wearing a dark red lipstick, sipping a glass of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That way the room stays dark and Dad won’t know what I’m doing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t never take him anywhere except after dark. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tore away the plastic tablecloth we’d used as a door and sent it flapping like a bat across the dark graveyard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It's dark when I slip out the rec room window. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As if affairs were all right just as long as they were kept in the dark. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She switched on the standard lamp beside the fire, and instantly the room became warmer, the weather outside darker and colder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Near me a big barn or granary bulked up in the dark, and in the distance beyond it I saw little volleys of sparks going up on the wind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A garden of Belle-roses reaches up toward a dark sky, their petals large and rich as sunshades, their thorns glistening like arrows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb,” she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the dark cavern is an old pink hybrid wedged between stacks of boxes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He could almost see the cogs working under Uncle Vernon’s thick, dark, neatly parted hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had any on Saturday, either, and the apartment, which never got much natural light, was dark and unwelcoming. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever we passed a boy of about his build, with dark hair, I’d stare. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could make out little more on the dark plain, and as yet he neither saw any hope of morning, nor felt any wind, changed or unchanged. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But things come full circle, baby, and two months later I was back in my bathroom, bowing to the toilet in the dark. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is older than the others, with deep creases in his dark skin and gray hair at his temples, and he stands on the ledge like it’s a sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Since I’m always outside in the Texas sun, my skin is real dark. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then, as though to confirm her in all her dark imaginings, he began, as she reached the subway steps, to whimper, and moan, and cry. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, they saw a dark smudge in the water, a log or piece of debris. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He found the long-sleeved white shirt that he had once worn to Cousin Linda’s wedding, and the dark brown trousers that went with it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Posters; dried flowers in a beer mug; the luminous glow of her stereo in the dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Opposite, dark against the bright rectangle of the doorway beside it, draped burlap covered a bunch of things mounted on the wall. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was cropped short and straight around her head, and she wore riding leathers and a light shirt of silvered ringmail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

StaffSergeant Max Mayhem and Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

His garb—jacket, leggings, and boots—was dark. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The corridor of iron cells was even darker after the brightness that had come before, and she stumbled as she raced back the way she’d come. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He thought he saw something far away glint in the dark. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I will admit I thought dark, vengeful thoughts that night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then me and Howard headed off toward the road, peering into tangled shrubs and squinting into the dark woods along the way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“There it is!” she said as Capricorn’s village appeared in the distance, gray and insignificant looking amidst all the dark green. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cain raised his head and stood slowly as the creature knelt before him and lowered its dark eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And Jan Dorlich, we discover, is a dark horse as an actor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The walls were paneled again, in a darker wood — where they were visible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He passed a black mound which seemed strange in the dark: lumpy, misshapen. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept somewhere in the dark tops of the hemlocks all day long, unless he saw us start for the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was natural to think of these fearful creations as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the dark at the bottom of the stairs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The creature’s bps were widely parted, standing upright and quivering, revealing yellow teeth and dark pink gums. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of the other dads and escorts are dressed in dark suits and tuxedos, but my father is the most handsome of them all. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“That land has something of a dark name,” Ged said, looking ever at the man in grey, trying to judge what kind of man he was. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary each had a pan, and Pa and Ma showed them how to pour the dark syrup in little streams onto the snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook tangled dark curls off her collar; her hair was barely short enough to count as regulation, and too short to put up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The teams killed most of the monkeys this day, working straight through until after dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rampart loomed suddenly before them, a high shadow beyond a dark pit. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The boy was a stranger to me, but something about his dark hair and the shape of his features tugged at my memory. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She forgot pain, forgot fear, forgot the tyrant who stared at the burning mark on her head with dark eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Moreover, most galaxies are found in clusters, and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks immediately take to the general store, a line of dark faces lining up out front waiting to spend their money. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The inside of our shelter was shadowy and dark, but the pain had begun to go away. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have me blocked at every turn, forcing me to fight them in the dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the hallway, peeking into dark rooms. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but I could see that Zoe didn’t look good. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t much care for the lack of windows or the dark walls, not to mention the decor itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the dark water, I could see the full moon, a moon so warm and big it looked like the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got into the cab, and the cabman put the bags up on the seat beside him and climbed up and cracked his whip, and we drove over the dark bridge and into the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When she could make out windows and the dark outlines of houses, she pulled her sled to the second bench above the river and stopped. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s face was milky pale, with dark, almond-shaped eyes and pouty lips. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The vertical mass was a figure, a person who was now backing away from her and beginning to fade into the darker background of the trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next time I go to Ritchie’s house on Bridge Street, I find the place completely dark. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He knew the guards liked to lurk in dark doorways, invisible as ravens at night in their black suits. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I sat there and looked at him, until he bounded away into the dark woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the landing I opened a door and stepped into a dark corridor. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a November afternoon it was truly dark. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand felt around in the dark for the bottle, and then she found it and I let go. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was dark when we finally pulled into the yard, the headlights of the car flashing across Ob’s old Chevy sitting in the weeds. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain washed the soldier’s blood down off the bus windows and yellow panels, stretching the bloated dark lines, drawing them out as they disappeared completely. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the blade flickered, showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor, snuffing out torches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And though he, too, doesn’t speak, his dark eyes smolder, telling me something I don’t quite understand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now this story was growing darker with each day that passed, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a dark November evening, and the base was beginning to quiet down for the night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black man answered wearing a dark suit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to be brave like Momma or Queen Esther in the Bible, but I just knew there were hobgoblins awalking in the dark, looking to steal the breath from a girl’s body. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both his shoulders and his left arm were dark and wet with blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the woman’s spoken concern: the fear of having a dark- skinned son or daughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark feathery hair whipped around his face like a raven shot out of the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The cat remained utterly still for a full minute, blue eyes blazing in the dark mask. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the world had changed, had grown blurred with day’s leaving and then purple at dusk and then dark. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tunnel led from the beach into the dark. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slips from bed, finds Mutti sitting in the dark, listening to the radio, her hand over her mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah had her husband hang dark curtains on their windows and stopped answering her phone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The long, dark days feel like endless black ribbon. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was going to be dark soon, and Celia wouldn’t return for hours. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a good deal larger than mine, with dark, polished wood, deep drawers, and a large, green, leather-bordered blotter that covered almost its entire top. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through the screen door we could see a dark, cool lobby and, behind the desk, a man of about sixty, his half-moon glasses pulled low on his nose, reading a copy of the Bennington Banner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I make my way in the dark, up the hill, sleet rustling around me, hauling myself up by branches and tree trunks, my shoes slipping on the packed icy snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the week before Thanksgiving, things got darker in PE. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cheddar arched his back and in an attempt to appear fierce, showed his spiky teeth as his pale green eyes turned dark jade. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was born with dark skin, but in my culture, light skin is considered a sign of beauty, so Mom wrote in my song that I would become fairer skinned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He looked like hell—his mouth half open as he gasped for air; dark, yellowish splotches beneath his eyes; and a few days’ worth of stubble crescenting the lower half of his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Soon, she heard the muted chatter of the night-soil men as they collected the sewage; she fell asleep listening to the scraping sounds of their shovels as they worked, shielded by the dark. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hold her for a long time in the dark kitchen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered what the time was and squinted at my granddad's Omega but it was too dark in the tiny kitchen to see. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shae and Pol reached for their weapons at the same time, standing up to face the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe you’re locked in some dark dungeon, shackled to the wall in chains! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Faith still had her jacket on and her cheeks were all red and her long dark hair spiraled around her face. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I’d finished, there was a funny sort of silence hanging in the dark, and I realised everyone was waiting for Ruth’s response—which was usually what happened whenever something a bit awkward came up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowded with out-of-work fishermen, the dark, low-ceilinged room smelled of river water and spirits. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In his sleep a voice echoed down the long dark barrel of a cannon: You have run out of birthdays. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s hoarse voice came from the dark bed. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then in my mind I saw him stretching out a hand from which the fingers had been eaten away and I ran—back to the dark, and the cold and the present. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if you looked on either side of these pretend-pagodas, you could see the streets became narrow and crowded, dark, and dirty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while they ate thoughtfully, sitting in the dark, heedless of the cries and sounds of battle nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"We don't want to fight him after dark. There's only the one pair of glasses." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the time she got back to the French Quarter, it was getting dark. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Santa grabbed the picture on the mantelpiece, a photograph of an ancient and hostile-looking woman in a black dress and black stockings standing in a dark alley paved with oyster shells. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was June, short dark hair and tiny little braid over her ear and everything. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His paws leave dark smudges on my sweatshirt. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks were cold, and her eyes were fathomless in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The wishes of both men are to be granted on the dark rear slope of a small rocky hill called Little Round Top. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, lying here in the dark, Kaede’s face was all she could see. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I should have thought about all the food in the dorm refrigerator before we left, but I can't fathom going back out into the snow and the dark, walking all that way. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I blink rapidly, and the dark spots disappear, but the world still swims before me, like I am tilting forward and back in a rocking chair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From behind, they looked so similar, with their thin shoulders and long dark hair, and their same taste in clothes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The room became dark and silent, though the clack of Sam’s shears, now nearer to the windows, could still be heard faintly from the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Despite the gloom, he wore dark sunglasses with blood red light glowing behind the lenses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If it is empty,” said I, “we should wait here until the evening and set out then upon the river once it is become dark.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dark, coffee-hued, and his jaw was an aggressive promontory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to undress and get in bed in the dark. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the fodder house all that day, lying on top of the com, listening to the drip of the rain, waiting for dark, when they would set out. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was deep brown, with dark eyes that just sparkled out at you. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had a real china tea set on the dark wooden sideboard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew approaches from the end of the hallway, his hands in the pockets of his dark blue uniform. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mama immediately stood up, smoothed back her dark hair, and gave us quick kisses on the cheek. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon they came to a place where the Road went suddenly under the dark shadow of tall pine-trees, and then plunged into a deep cutting with steep moist walls of red stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had dark bags under his eyes, like he hadn’t slept. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He later recalled that Booth was dressed in stained, dark clothes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the steps and entered the dark, musky church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still had all his hair, and it was still coal black, and his dark eyes twinkled above the paper surgical mask he was wearing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing dark sunglasses, almost as if she were copying Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The stalls opened wider and the toilets wider and darker. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run back to our tent, through the thickening dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were humans, cyborgs, demons, dark elves, Vulcans, and vampires. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud has formed between me and the dream of running again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

How could she explain that she was searching for a man she’d seen nothing of, except for a dark shoe? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His thick brows were creased above his dark eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express, a gleaming scarlet steam engine, was already there, clouds of steam billowing from it, through which the many Hogwarts students and parents on the platform appeared like dark ghosts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She has dark eyebrows and eyelashes and deep-set brown eyes, and her lips are stained a dark red. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His diamond-shaped Blackcliff tattoo is a dark shadow on the back of his neck, parts of it tinged silver where the metal of his mask cleaves to his skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Max closes her eyes; her lashes make dark half circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hung between them, eyes wide and white in her dark face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Just the ones that lurk in dark hallways.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A minute after dark, I’m setting at my kitchen table, twirling my pencil. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was pale with dark circles under her eyes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Their faces were dark, as if they had bathed them in charcoal, and they stared intensely at us with their extremely red eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Not really. It was dark, and he was wearing a big hat that hid part of his face.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The maid named Fanni emerges with a dark loaf and a round of cheese, and she smiles at Frederick as she sets it down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So if we’d met . . . oh, in a dark alley or something . . .” I trailed off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the dark suit, the dark skullcap, the white shirt open at the collar, and the fringes showing below his jacket. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as he disappeared from the window, she slipped off the bed like that stupid cat and put her bra and shoes on in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were alone, he swung me up into his arms, and carried me across the dark grounds till he reached the bench beneath the shadow of the madrone trees. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’re dark wood, and the tabletop between the two facing benches is red like the soda fountain counter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the sidewalk, beneath a streetlamp, is a dark green metal bench. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were laced with something dark—almost a sick fascination. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Harry’s scar scorched again: For a moment the Room of Requirement swam before him, and he saw instead the dark earth soaring beneath him and felt the great snake wrapped around his shoulders. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And there I am, center screen, tousled dark hair and button-down and a bow tie. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Silent, we walk in line, trying to avoid falling in the dark. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Light skin was a definite plus in our community, and it was common to talk in a negative manner about a person with very dark skin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were some ten feet from the main trunk, and Mrs. Frisby could see, just above the place where the branch joined the tree, a dark round hole as large as a lunch plate. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

William was thinking, I am in a dark wood with a girl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sister Katarina was young and pretty, with large dark eyes, but she was nervous, and she made Lyra nervous too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, the three of them stood alone, glowing like human lanterns on the dark bridge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her gray eyes turned extra thunderstorm dark, which Percy could interpret just fine: Remember what I said, buddy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bruises on his torso were dark and vivid. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then, after lying there for a moment, trembling in the dark, I pressed ahead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Something like that,” I said, grinning a little in the dark. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The turnkey was twenty stone of gross stupidity, with brown rotting teeth and small dark eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The asphalt in the parking lot is dark and gleaming, its white paint strips faded almost to the point of nonexistence. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We filed into a dark hallway lined with family photos, the faces impossible to make out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He is in his mid-thirties, with dark thickly curled hair, a mustache, an eagle nose, and eyes that look almost purple, like mulberries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And some said: ‘They are Elvish wights. Let them go where they belong, into the dark places, and never return. The times are evil enough.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a dark shape sitting on top of it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I continued farther into the dark electronic cave and walked up to a Pac-Man machine at the very back of the room, wedged between a Galaga and a Dig Dug. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were huge, dark globes that reflected back their surroundings. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I watched the unfamiliar world go dark while Otto snored in my arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No wait, dark meat, please,” I said, nervous. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Eyes peeked out of the dark space under the desk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Between the flashes of lightning the air was dark and terrible; and the boys followed him, clamorously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The place was dark and cool, I remember, with crumbling walls and sandbagged windows and a ceiling full of holes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody—with a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Those with windows have glass that is tinted and shadowed; those without are dark as coal. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sparkling sunlight jetted from behind him, leaving his face in the dark. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After a while I stopped reading and turned off the light and watched it get dark outside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window as he ate, or tried to, as the lamplight turned its surface mirrorlike against the dark behind it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This did not prevent his reading, of course, since as you know, cats can see in the dark. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bit later a few men in dark coveralls emerged, and Joe spotted his father immediately. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, now that Dicey was closer, were not brown but dark hazel, browns and greens without any yellow to give them sparkle. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You must. Once I begin to sing, no one must enter this tent. My song will wake powers old and dark. The dead will dance here this night. No living man must look on them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of water that Merry heard falling into his quiet sleep: water streaming down gently, and then spreading, spreading irresistibly all round the house into a dark shoreless pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s starting to get dark now, the sun really setting, the already dark swamp getting even darker, and I still don’t have no answer. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only a few yards ahead dark shapes loomed up in the stream and he heard the swirl of racing water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, we decide we have to start our jack-o’-lanterns if we want to get done before dark. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I won’t see any signal if I stay inside this dark guardhouse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lying broken on the hot church floor, dark blood spilling from his skull like a secret. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I could feel them coming as I lay in the dark of my cave. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra swallowed a wave of panic and squinted at the dark trees around her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Sausage” He pulled out a handful of dark brown sausage links. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not golden like the knights in story, and his eyes were dark as rivers. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looked up and down the dark corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Only her fingers were too long, and they never stopped moving, and her dark red fingernails were curved and sharp. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s dark and nothing is blooming, I know the garden I’m standing in is extraordinarily beautiful. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A man in a dark suit and a gray tie stands at the entrance to my room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At dark, the Montenegrins returned to the Col to report that the summit had remained out of reach: they’d turned around below the Hillary Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Z leaned against the shack and gazed out into the dark night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not the dark, only the thoughts which passed through his head, the pictures in front of his eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A part of the night it moved through, its wicked heart was darker than the darkest place in that night. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, we pull up in front of a big house with a yawning front lawn of grass that, even in the dark, you can tell is neatly clipped. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She made it okay for me when other people called me “big for my age" or said, “She’s very dark skinned compared to her mother." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That was another time of comparative coolness but menaced by the coming of the dark. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But for a while, in the dark, I wrapped my arms around myself and stood by the desk and looked out the window for Jupiter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She stood just inside the doorway so that her face became a dark shadow. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell she's imagining an empty bucket drifting down into the dark well and coming back, water sloshing out of its sides like tears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The front of Elena’s cotton dress was dark with perspiration as she gasped to fill her lungs with air. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The boat was carving deep ripples upon the glassy surface, grooves in the dark mirror.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was still purple, dark blue, and black, yet scarcely a minute remained to the long, quiet night. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ride back to the compound is slow and dark. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In his great need he drew out once more the phial of Galadriel, but it was pale and cold in his trembling hand and threw no light into that stifling dark. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because I can’t help it, I lean down and kiss her forehead once, and I think I see her smile for a second in her sleep, but it’s dark so I can’t be sure. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the movie was still playing, people were whispering about it in the dark. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the sparrows never got still until full dark. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drove around for an hour in the dark, going left, going right, doubling back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I was lying down all alone in the dark, I couldn’t get comfortable for the longest time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to the far end, though, she stopped, her little dark head hanging a bit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There were a few freckles on her face, and a small, dark mole near the under Up and one on the temple, half-hidden in her hair. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt that she should have kept it hidden in some dark place. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dark and serious in the dim light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I think it was something about us being in the dark looking out on the world, moving through the universe without being seen, our private wheels, our private space flight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy blinked a few times to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, but it really was June, wearing a dark purple sundress and grass-green leggings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I waved her hands away, but Ashley pushed past the others and brushed my long, dark hair over my shoulder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky is blank and dark, the moon shielded by clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bones rounded out of the ditch, where the dark vines were in the black ditch, into the moonlight, like some of the shapes had stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes your face dark and God knows it’s dark enough. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I fell right back to feeling all dark again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The forest was no easier to navigate by day than it had been in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His beautiful dark eyes were fringed with long lashes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had escaped and was hiding in one of the dark corners of the room, or maybe Joseph’s fever was causing him to hallucinate. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As he got dressed in the dark, he whispered up to the top bunk, “Reynie, they didn’t happen to blindfold you when you went to Mr. Curtain’s office, did they?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Judd just laughs, and his teeth’s dark where the tobacco juice oozes through. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really dark once you get inside, and we started out too late—the sun went down. But what we did see—the place is unreal.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Whatever these guys were, they were not the type you wanted to meet in a dark alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the realm of the real, she might have been just a girl, in hiding and in peril, but in the unconscious mind she was all-powerful: sorceress and storyteller, puppeteer and dark enthraller. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Honestly, it looks a little dark out that way. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was thinking of Miguel, and a dark foreboding gripped her throat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Warings, surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The light was no more than that of dusk at a dark day’s end. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I’ve always wondered if the looming dark shadows gliding just under the surface might munch off a toe or two. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We went inside the store, into the dark glinting with metal. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bit of dark metal, a piece of broken jewelry perhaps, the half-circle of a broken ring. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavy, and his face was dark red under the gold. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The boy in the magazine has perfect teeth and stabbing dark eyes. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark sky was clear when they started out, but as the flight went on, the wind picked up—and then it began to snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What I felt, right then, was that she was smiling through pained eyes, that the reason for my visit had spread sadness like a dark quilt over the whole house. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After Roan’s death, electric lightbulbs began to appear on the outside of Osage houses, dangling from rooftops and windowsills and over back doors, their collective glow hollowing the dark. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When we add up all this dark matter, we still get only about one tenth of the amount required to halt the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra dabbed dark green paint along the neck of the dragon she was working on. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were at the base of the sandstone mesa, which was now dark purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the wine ... the wine was dark and sour, but strong. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder at the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jack searched until dark, going in and out of barracks, calling Moniek’s name, but he could not find him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shiny dark shuttle squats in the shadows like a carpet beetle, waiting for when it will go into duty in four hundred years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was darker here, he could tell that he had come a good way into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The shades were drawn and the dark room smelled bad with a sick smell. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His jeans are dark and frayed at the hems. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined my father’s face, his dark eyes shrinking, his mouth clamping into a frown as he turned to my mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His cheeks got darker, and he seemed genuinely sorry for doing all the work. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She refolded the letter into its envelope, and a dark cloud seemed to pass over her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The station was tucked in a deserted area, surrounded by dark woods. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Fishermen stood on their bobbing vessels, throwing nets across the dark, still waters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Powerful arms encircled me, dragging me from the dark lagoon and onto the cold porcelain floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ma tells us only to pick the old dark green leaves and not the light green ones in our garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He circled a large block of some dark green stone, upon which two men knelt facing each other, scrubbing the surface with a block of sandstone. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had a dark yellow yolk and not so much white as he thought there would be. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dark night, with heavy thunderstorms and low clouds, and the Maddox immediately began evasive action, zigzagging through the heavy rain and turbulent seas. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

With my thick, dark hair and blue eyes, I looked like a lot of other Polish boys. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She has short, dark brown hair, curving in toward her cheeks and cut in a high fringe over her brows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the brands that marred her brown skin—dark and angry blue-purple welts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For no apparent reason a cat’s fur may rise on its back as it peers into a dark closet, just as you or I may get goose bumps from phantoms we neither see nor hear. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the house Charles lighted the lamp although it was not dark yet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They glowed in the dark like pale miniature stars fallen to earth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m afraid of the dark, did you know that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He got a flashlight and circled around through these dark rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to see it anyway, so he put it in his pocket. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The lights stay on and the nurses stay awake, but even though it’s still dark outside, you can tell that things are waking up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her appraisingly—large dark eyes set in a full unlined face several shades lighter than my own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The building cast a warm yellow glow on the snow, a glow that sent fingers of light into the dark classrooms of King. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Northwestward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was nearly empty, dark, and rain slicked, with a few scattered shopping carts reflecting the headlights from Chas’s car. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His daughter Una had become a brooding student, tense and dark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Run and run and disappear into the mountains and live in solitude in the dark green of the wild, with a pine-needle carpet and a blanket of stars overhead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His face, and especially his left temple, was misshapen, swollen, and lacerated; his...mouth was a coagulated pool of dark blood; he coughed up more than liter of blood in his agonal moments. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Some of them even had dark skin like her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stared across the fields at the Big House’s attic window, dark and still. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if we had returned to the dark days of Sharpeville. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bear’s red beard seemed to glitter in the firelight, so that his face—despite the dark—was equal to any sun. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On my night shift I've begun to act out the final scene, where Martin Eden pushes himself through a porthole and dives into the dark water and intentionally drowns himself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hanako could make out his dark form moving slowly, stopping every so often to make sure they were behind him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He knew he would have to reenter Forest and return by those same dark paths that now seemed so ominous. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I look down at the dark at the bottom of the stairs and feel a lump in my throat. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then he slid the scope over Monet’s tongue and pushed the tongue out of the way so that he could see down the airway past the epiglottis, a dark hole leading inward to the lungs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods were not as totally dark as they had seemed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The one difference between the present-day office and this one was that it was snowing in the past; bluish flecks were drifting past the window in the dark and building up on the outside ledge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everything dark and churning, but slow churning instead of fast, and this great weight pulling you down, like it’s attached to your feet even if you can’t see it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My prison is my own mind, where dark thoughts and sorrows shackle my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The sun had slanted over the roofs in such a way that Neeley was in the sun and his face was clear and bright, while Francie looked dark and angry in the shadow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was pushing through the sea of bodies, coming toward her, someone tall and dark and... Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The men began to move, running upward into the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, she could see the blue hands of his watch. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The room was dark, and the murmur of voices outside the door was too low to make out words. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along the docks, past the dark hulks of ships bobbing slowly. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The houses were surprisingly alike on either side of this crucial dividing line: small, dark, and cramped. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried back down the grand staircase and made my way through the dark passage to the kitchen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though it wasn’t the sea she thought about, or the dark fin rising above her, but rather the vision she’d had of the small green boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned a dark beige with swirls of white throughout, and the scent wafted up to Anya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She is calling me, whispering my name to herself in the dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was about this time that the large, dark man from Lansing began visiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered, jerking forward, struggling to make my eyes sear through the dark trunks and vines. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a dark triangle of fur between her legs and turn away, embarrassed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The woods played on our imaginations the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw the dark shapes creep from the garden, he knew that he must run for it, or perish. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It could run through the air and over the water, run faster than any horse, and run even in the darkest night, for its golden bristles shone so brightly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he noticed, not far from the further end of the fire, a small dark figure seated on a stool with his back propped against a pillar. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dining room was dark and Ash lit the candles with shaking hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, not long before the fire, she was curled on her bed in the dark and I heard her crying and went in to comfort her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The street around him was dark, empty, but the sound he’d heard was distinct. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dark water boiled, and there was a hideous stench. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At 2:45 a.m., they crammed into a small truck and a taxi and drove, headlights off, along the dark, tree-lined avenue leading to the concrete walls surrounding the embassy of the United States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He sat alone on his horse in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie also realized that it was dark and light at the same time. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All that could be seen was the still, dark water, broken at intervals as the sleek form of an otter surfaced and dived again. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sefia grasped for answers, her vision flooding into the darkest corners of his past, invading his history. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Birds burst from every broken window in the house like dark smoke, others tornadoed up through the roof. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The café was very dark after the brightness outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She flipped through more styles, settling on basic hair, dark and short. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We both looked at the two dark, slightly sloppy stitches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fela was just about to sprint past when dark fog began to boil up out of the grate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As my eyes slowly adjusted to the dark, I realized there was another source of light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Judith, venturing outside as far as the well, came back, her cheeks glowing, with bits of feathery white clinging to her cloak and to her dark curls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As I was in my white tennis outfit and sneakers, I jogged briskly down the dark road, praying that I didn’t step into any potholes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run across the dark terrace, climb over the wall, and head toward the neighbor’s glass doors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parlor door was shut where Granny was, and I could see the flickering glow of lamplight under the door as I walked down the cool dark hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sean could turn up there, too, but Finn needn’t have worried; the house was dark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s because it’s dark in here. Outside, in the good light, you let me in, so I must have.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Zwicky’s deductions concerning dark matter wouldn’t attract serious attention for nearly four decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We couldn't spare the time now, my aunt said, to find all the little pieces in the dark. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You are angry,” she said simply, as if she were noting he had dark hair, or the sun was going down. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A baby fretted awhile, away off in the dark, crying at the echo of its own cries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Creatures moved around the platform—several strange, dark shapes, but they were too far away to make out details. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We’d better catch a few more before it gets dark,” I said, still laughing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The dark blue shimmered like the deep sea, as if there were infinite depths within the color, and needless to say, it looked amazing on him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, a glinting white truck rolled by, two dark figures in the front seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The garden could only be reached through a dark, covered alley, which at first glance looked like little more than a black hole between the Casa Spavento and the neighboring house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emma climbed it and I followed, pulling it closed after us, and we found ourselves in a tiny, dark attic space. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ear, Eye and Arm had trouble finding a taxi that would take them to Dead Man’s Vlei after dark. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgment day in some old apocalyptic painting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Evan felt his mouth getting tight, his fingers gripping the pencil too hard, as he scribbled a dark storm cloud on the page. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He washed his face and hands in hot water, slicked down his dark hair, then went back into the restaurant and ate his burgers and fries, and drank his coffee. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When we spoke over a Chinese dinner in Seoul in 2009, An wore a dark blue suit, a white shirt, a striped tie, and half-frame glasses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All that host was clad in sable, dark as the night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Hermione, whose bushy hair obscured the tiny patch of sky visible through the dark branches high above them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing grows or lives on the mountain; the land around it is hard and the water of the river is dark because Jade Dragons sad spirit is still there. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought bananas and a chimpanzee were more interesting than a loud, filthy mechanical contraption in the dark bowels of a ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the scissors in Mama’s hand, then raised his dark eyebrows. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pretended, for me, that his mind and his heart were not dark and convoluted places. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard the lawn-sprinkling system jump up, filling the dark air with rain that fell gently and then with a steady pour all about, washing on the sidewalks, and draining into the alley. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I groped about in the dark long enough, I might manage eventually to break into the book keeper's trunk and liberate the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He knelt in the mud in the dark in the trash and cried. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Caesar’s dark skin flushed darker still, and he scowled and looked away from her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ma was worried, but Pa said that by starting before sun-up and walking very fast all day he could get home again before dark. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One telegraph boy made his way through the dark to an unlit alley that smelled of rotted fruit and was silent save for the receding hiss of gaslights on the street he had left behind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It looks festive, dark blue text and photos over a white and green patterned background. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Just ahead, through the snow, I could see a darker shadow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the dark of night we all wait for the truck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to lighten her sister's dark mood. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their white trousers and shirts were as clean as the laundry girls’ hands could make them, and the orange glow made the men look like ghosts emerging from the dark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a long way down, and so dark that Quentyn had to feel his way to keep from slipping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Get ready for the fireworks, Chief,” said the dark shape of a tall Marine next to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence, repeating it to his “precious” over and over again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost believed it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

You die of cold or hunger or suffocation, trapped in a dark coffin made of ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops interspersed among dwelling houses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I left her standing in the dark entryway and slipped back to my room, closing and locking the door behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Pieces of melted plastic fell to the floor, giving off dark smoke that smelled like burnt rubber. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and creepy down there, like a dungeon. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was happy to see so many faces he knew, and happiest to see Vetch come forward to greet him with a wide smile on his dark face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The dark underbelly of the human animal was turned loose on that vehicle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Poppy was standing outside looking up into the night sky when they appeared in the dark. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the straightness of her as she moved, her long belly, the dark collapse below that. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With crushed ice, rum and melted dark chocolate.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Away in the South a dark patch appeared, and grew, and drove north like flying smoke in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for the faint glow of the lamp in the living room floating through the half-open door of my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She appears rich and vibrant against a background of white, a bright flush in her cheeks, her dark eyes brimming with tears. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As they rowed upstream in the warm summer dark, Ulbrickson saw that they were pulling flawlessly, with the exceptional grace and precision that was quickly becoming their norm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His nipples were like dark raisins nestled among the sparse gray tufts of hair on his chest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The panes in August’s bedroom window were dark. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the other forms rising out of the dark around them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Coal cars grind past in the wet dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His first idea had been to wait until dark, then make a run for home. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And he was dark, the color of a night shadow. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was still dressed in her work clothes, a white blouse and dark dress pants, but she looked pretty chilled, and I decided to risk the next line. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then Clove begins to transform, her face elongating into a snout, dark fur sprouting from her skin, her fingernails growing into long claws, but her eyes remain unchanged. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up from the dark plain below came the crying of fell voices, and the howling of many wolves . The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the vantage high in the mountains he saw plumes of dark smoke rising from the land below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a few steps they were in utter and impenetrable dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I knew that my people would never be out there after dark that late at night, so the noises had to be members of the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But why’s it so dark? I say, do you think we got into the wrong Pool?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

People pushed their way toward the door and out on to a tiny, dark platform. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When Jinny woke up each morning after that, it was with a strange dark feeling. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some people claimed that he was a holy man who had come down from the mountains to save the city in its darkest hour. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Termites make percussive sounds to each other by beating their heads against the floor in the dark, resonating corridors of their nests. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark he could pretend that it was the three-eyed crow who whispered to him and not some grisly talking corpse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up like a human, his great paws folded in his lap, his dark eyes looking into hers down the length of his muzzle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the owls, either, which didn’t surprise Roy; with so much noise and human commotion, the birds would likely stay underground where it was dark and safe. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blending into the dark—mouse gray, mouse still—as The Beast approaches I bunch myself to jump. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her brooch, though, was like the sun peeking through dark clouds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before he reached the first step, he stopped and regarded the dark Buddha blocking his passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stomach- sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What if they also saw the dark silhouette perched in the ceiling’s scaffolding? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That morning the room was darker than ever because the blinds had been pulled almost all the way down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the dark at the foot of my bed billowed with malevolent shapes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band members liked to sing quietly on those dark nights, the bus warm with radiating bodies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the dark woods, I made my way by a little-used path until I came to the cottage of the wise woman Mechtild. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My eye, won’t some cook get a rum start when she sees his green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I bolted out the basement door, dashing into the cold, dark snow. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes that had been so warm and compassionate just a minute before were now pitiless black stones, as dark and as dreadful as cold eternity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"This," the waiter announces, "is our raw Atlantic swordfish served in a dark chocolate gravy and garnished with fresh mint." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They turned into a dark side street and sat on the edge of the sidewalk with their feet in the gutter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long tail slid in the dark shadow of the dune before him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

From where he stood, the house looked as if it had been eaten by a galloping disease, the sores of which were dark and fluid. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In my day, me and my buddies would be all over the neighborhood. Wouldn’t come home till dark. You kids, nowadays...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I've got my dark green robe on, so when I look down at my legs and my arms, the shapes are right. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to make out their expressions, but the tension in the air was like the hot static buzz you feel before that first clap of thunder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It gave me a wonderful feeling when I looked into his dark blue eyes and saw how bashful my unexpected visit had made him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark. Besides, you never know who is watching.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stairs went down into the dark and T. P. took my hand, and we went out the door, out of the dark. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moves a little further away as we stand in the dark. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The has of the dead fluttered out of their tombs and across the dark face of Egypt, revisiting the places they had known in life. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The rucksack was heavy, but Malcolm shook his head, and then said, “No,” realizing that subtle gestures were lost in the dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He felt a surge of adrenaline and dark dread. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I think of the dark place, where I was nowhere at all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was so dark that they dismounted and went ahead on foot, each man leading his garron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was dark, maybe eight o’clock or so, and the drummers and singers were loud and wonderful. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee twitched some more, turning finally to look up at the dark mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole immediately settled down to driving us anxiously through the dark while I curled around our suckling boy in the backseat, alarmed to see he wasn’t even that—he couldn’t nurse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she pulled out my dark blue cotton dress. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe because it was pretty dark in the hallway. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rage transformed them; a red fury choked the good in both of them and bottled the love they once felt into a dark place where neither could find it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet and dark down among the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still dark out when I opened my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But Ching’s face, which was pale and yellow every day, was now dark and spotted with his scanty blood, and his half-opened eyes were filmed and blind and his breath came in gusts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was so dark that they could only see a little distance ahead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her complexion pulsed darker beneath her freckles, making her scratch appear less vivid. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His dark curly hair was cut into a precise top fade, prominent against his brown skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The freckles on her face looked darker than ever against her pale skin. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But it had never in his darkest moments occurred to him that she’d be handed over to that monster. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as they drew near to the further gate, Frodo saw a dark ill-kept house behind a thick hedge: the last house in the village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am hunched there like a fat dark shadow, my eyes cut sideways toward Caroline, thumb in mouth, the pudgy hand covering most of my face. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried picturing Bat Lady blasting classic rock in this dark room. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Daisy was not black as he was—her skin had been like the beautiful color of dark honey. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark line of the horizon is far in the distance, the sky above it lighter, like layers of sediment in rock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a dark gray basalt, and she used to hold it to her forehead, and it would immediately make her feel better: two and a half million years, right there against her skin. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a tangle of narrow streets between there and the Royal Arctic Institute, which was the only place Lyra was sure of being able to find, and into that dark maze she hurried now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s get some wood before it gets any darker. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Seven grabbed her friend’s hand, and they ventured into the dark, drafty halls of the Goody Garlick Academy for Magic and hustled toward the potions room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a typical raw, dark, wintry morning in Moabit, a drab industrial section of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I only knew that I couldn’t sleep and I didn’t want to be in bed, alone in the dark, anymore. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"He never makes a sound. That's why I named him Ghost. That, and because he's white. The others are all dark, grey or black." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I walked past dark green Dumpsters filled with plasterboard and scrap metal, past blue portable toilets parked along the construction lots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were dark brown with spotted wings, whitish throats, and piercing amber eyes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve both dressed up for the occasion—when she emerges from the bathroom she sees that he is wearing the shirt she’s given him, moss-colored with a velvet Nehru collar of slightly darker green. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came to a church, shining white in the dark air. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sisters are double stones of a single fruit, darker than their mother, with rounder features and their father’s inky eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of steam writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As far as Meggie could see in the dark the last door had a number 7 on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The music of the harp and the happy shouting of the warriors echoed out across the dark fen and drowned the crying of birds that flew in the night. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, she was walking up the stairs slowly, her body growing darker and darker until I couldn't see it anymore. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Ready,” said Harry, trying hard to fill his head with happy thoughts about Gryffindor winning, and not dark thoughts about what was going to happen when the box opened. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The steel had nicked into the edge of one of the darker stone pieces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are dark circles under my eyes, because last night was one of Josefs nights. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that we would try to rescue him if something went wrong—but no elf has made it out of that dark land of mist and fire in living memory. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In front of the dark doors of Purgatory my bleached bones were laid to rest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three buses drove down the hill and through the dark, starless night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was small, dark, and beady. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The castle rose from the shores of Cape Wrath, on a lofty crag of dark red stone surrounded on three sides by the surging waters of Shipbreaker Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It got darker and the stars got brighter, and I still felt happy, so I started to sing. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was perfectly still except his eyes, which flicked from the door to the dark windows, to our faces and back to the door. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the other side it was not dark as midnight, but rather bright as sunshine in the middle of winter: blinding, dazzling on the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was really dark. You know how dark it is out there." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shrieking and kicking, sometimes holding his breath until his face turned frighteningly dark, was what he was still doing at the Nurturing Center at naptime. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I felt pretty sure of two things: Nobody had noticed that I was hidden away in the dark basement like a leper, and everybody would be asleep when I went upstairs this time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Kaede who looked up after finishing her meal and saw the eyes in the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All gray and brown and dark and hard. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, the night landscape whisked by—miles of dark countryside crisscrossed with illuminated highways like the strands of a web. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson slowly came down the steps into the dark cabin for the second time. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay down again, but for a long while he could still see the white flashes, and against them the tall dark figure of Strider, standing silent and watchful. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the switch raises dark welts on my brother's Dell and I look on afraid to open our mouths. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was dark in the bathroom because the candles had been extinguished in the great rush of water that had left both walls and floor soaking wet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve all had First Day, come out of that dark box. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The workouts went on for three hours every afternoon, and as the days grew shorter they stretched into the dark and increasingly chilly October evenings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She began to roll the sock doughnut up the length of her ponytail, folding her hair into it as she went, until all Bridge could see was a big circle of dark glossy hair. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was small, with shelves fixed above a dark wood desk and a floral-patterned armchair in one corner. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mam is sleeping up in Italy with Alphie and there’s a coat over the window to keep the room dark. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The magistrate shot Anya a dark look before turning away and heading up the hill to the road. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The pit in me is just getting blacker and darker. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The few low-lying clouds were moving quickly across it—as if heading home themselves before it got too dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room and the faces staring at me began to swim, as if I was the center of a dark, rushing whirlpool. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grew dark and still he had not come. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm wearing my good pair of shoes—boots made of dark leather worn soft over time, with strong laces and steel toes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The steady chanting draws my wearied steps, which know their way despite the dark, to the chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But when Emma and Chess glanced back, their faces were anguished, their matching dark eyes full of matching despair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Taller than most, she gazes at them over the head of her dark friend. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to see very far, but he could sense somebody standing just beyond the range of his vision. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Claire peered down and saw that most of them had two dark spots. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His dark hair is slightly ruffled, the grown-up version of his son’s mischievous look. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The church was cool, dark, and sweet smelling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I pictured Miss Lilian creeping about in the dark rooms the way she used to, her mind racing with crazy thoughts, her heart full of hatred for Georgie and me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a bright sunny afternoon aboveground, the deep well that now cradled Gulliver was a dark, dark place. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Smith’s head—the stiff Indian hair, the Irish-Indian blending of dark skin and pert, impish features— reminded him of the suspect’s pretty sister, the nice Mrs. Johnson. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, he's completely gorgeous and noble and dark and brooding and poetic. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A colored man in a dark suit and tie came up to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mustache, blue-white against the dark skin, hovered over his mouth, and his hair was white, too, where it showed at his neck. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was afraid for him, afraid of the dark and the cold and the red lights. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Since early Sunday, my nights have been dark, the days darker still. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With his dark glasses on, I can’t see his eyes, only the reflection of a terrified girl clinging to her mother. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I felt in the dark for my coat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I blew some eraser dust off the paper and into the dark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark dress, unlike the other girls in their white cotton or pastel flowery prints, so she stood out like a mourner at a wedding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a dark room with only the Christmas tree lighted, it wasn’t bad. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Piggy looked up miserably from the dawn-pale beach to the dark mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to be dark outside and I turned the light on to read. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s bigger, and darker in just a few days. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You take away the sleek white feathers of the tern and put on stubby dark ones. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Montag's face was entirely numb and featureless; he felt his head turn like a stone carving to the dark place next door, set in its bright borders of flowers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to the stag is a man in a dark suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was tall, and he wore an uncommonly fine dark blue silk tunic embroidered with white-capped waves, but his hair was as short as a guard’s. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jonathan Sinclair Dennis, you would have been a light in the dark for so many people. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A twisted thing it was, six feet long from end to end, gleaming black and banded with red gold and dark Valyrian steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I still can’t see well enough to find the source of the scream, but I see a dark lump on the floor a few bunks down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was dark in our room except for the small light of the night over the town and the bat was not frightened but hunted in the room as though he had been outside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Concentric rings grew larger and larger on the dark water, then gradually disappeared. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I groped into the dark room and fumbled for the bed; I had the illusion that if I touched it I would encounter the dead boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His blood is dark because he isn’t human. Humans do not have black blood!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beautifully dressed in a dark suit with a well-pressed shirt and tie. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had never been there in the dark, but he imagined it now, him standing on the shore and making out the waves only when they broke. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And I, Grendel, was the dark side, he said in effect. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his house on Suyane Street, Dr. Philobosian hangs a wet carpet over the balcony, then hurries back inside the dark house and closes the shutters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Clouds covered the world from one edge of the sky to the other and they were so dark gray they were almost black. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Harrison had dark honey-colored hair and freckles across his nose like Abby’s. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Black Balaq, a white-haired Summer Islander with skin dark as soot, commanded the company’s archers, as in Blackheart’s day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Scared of the dark, Mar?” the dark-eyed Dauntless- born initiate teases. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

How dark and stupid it was to be mangled and strange, to be no particular shape, to have no self when life was stretching out before her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His dark, wild eyes held me hypnotically, and I could hear the deep sounds a horse makes inside his chest when he is ready to buck. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet its waters were dark: a deep blue like clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was still dark when Maniac awoke on Christmas morning. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is not far and quite dark. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I put on dark glasses and turned away from the tower,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cas didn’t respond, and her dark hair was hanging in front of her face, so Diana couldn’t see what she might be thinking. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Harry thought he saw a red gleam in his dark eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they talked to each other, braving the immense presence of the dark. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Cloke leaned forward, his long, dark hair falling in his face, and knocked the ash off his cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The queen was dressed as modestly as any matron, in a dark brown gown that buttoned up to her throat and a hooded green mantle that covered her shaved head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are dark bruises under both eyes, real shiners. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse had his back to him, a dark mass shifting in the straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His straight dark hair is chin-length, his jaw square, his skin the same deep brown as mine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, the living room was dark, save for a bar of moonlight spilling through the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

By then they were more than halfway to the hospice, but it was nearly dark when they reached St. Mark’s and were admitted by the porter at the postern gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Below them small towns passed by like lit-up islands in a dark sea of prairie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At a gap in the circle a great dark wolf-shape could be seen halted, gazing at them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now we three were only outlines in the dark parlor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don't think I've ever fallen asleep in a dark place and woken to see it in the light for the first time. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I try to see through the fibers of whatever is over my head, but they are too dense and it is too dark. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Night was falling and the dark lines of Fruitless Mountain softened in the shadowy sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, now,” he said, “me, I don’t hang around here after dark.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Such things were not unheard of in those dark times, and the people were afraid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Bats go to work at night. They ‘see’ in the dark using a special skill called echolocation. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Its grey- white metal shone against the dark road behind it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Will next became aware of things, it was completely dark, and his hand was hurting more than ever. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She simply could not imagine herself switching off the light and announcing into the dark that she’d had an affair. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dare not look again at the dark figure in the shell-hole. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I sighed sometimes, watching Barack pull the same dark suit out of his closet and head off to work without even needing a comb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A line of paint slid down Jay’s dark cheek, headed toward his chin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The click of dark and snapping lingers drives them to Roseland, to Bunny’s; boardwalks by the sea. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell used every ounce of strength he had to land a tremendous blow but, in the dark, missed twice. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious, revealing latent energy and an intellectual force that could be felt at once. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought in the dark in the rain and a counter-attack of scared men from the second line drove them back. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On his dreadful journey, after the shaman has wandered through dark forests and over great ranges of mountains,...he reaches an opening in the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just her name and the year she graduated etched into a brass rectangle glued to a dark slab of wood. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They had eaten with no light on the table and the old man took off his trousers and went to bed in the dark. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can almost feel the earth closing in, the air going stale and damp, the dark pressing down on top of me, and I have to open my mouth to breathe. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once the faja is no longer holding up my anaco, it falls to the ground, the thick, dark cotton pooling at my bare feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m snow in moonlight, even in the dark. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re at Audrey’s place, on her balcony It’s dark but the floodlights are on, and people look up as they walk past the lot of town houses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A curious mixture: the white-columned houses high on the green hills, the shacks down in the dark valleys. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an impression of dark shadows hovering over the Starlight Room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wore matching dark suits and each of them had a little flower in his lapel. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nelson raised his long pole and shoved hard, hitting the wall above the nest so dust rained down on the dark, quiet hens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even this was not enough for Blanca, who found the apartment sordid, dark, and narrow and the building crowded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over them was a lane of pale-blue sky, around them the dark overshadowed River, and before them black, shutting out the sun, the hills of Emyn Muil, in which no opening could be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Usually he slept during the daytime and was abroad only after dark. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his dark blue knit cap pulled down over his forehead again. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

"I don't want you out after dark, Sam," he said as we walked to the door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This rabbit had very dark fur—almost black. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon once said that when the stage lights are on, the audience looks like a giant dark blob. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Despereaux saw the dark shape of a rat, that thing that he had feared and dreaded for so long, finally step out of the gloom and come to greet him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ethan finally stops at a dark, moldy niche holding a statue of a watchful saint that is streaked with years of weather and grime. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The water turns thick and cloudy, and when we look closer, we see a dot of dark blood in the center of the yolk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She is thin and pale, dull eyed, with sharp cheekbones and matted dark red hair, wind-chapped cheeks, and a red-rimmed nose. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes should be wild with apprehension, given where we are, but they are still and dark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Langer See was rough, the wind still brisk out on the water, the scene dark and gloomy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the center was a dark pond covered with water lilies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled of deceit, of whispers and lies and plots hatched in the dark, all the things he’d hoped to leave behind with the Spider and Lord Littlefinger and their ilk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was grave dark and quiet except for the things that crawled in the night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at him, but I couldn’t see his eyes because of his dark glass. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

How I found my parents It was in the darkest hours of the night when I found our wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was inside the bush, and it was dark. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A savage storm blew across the prairie and turned the streets into rivers of mud, so the private detective didn’t arrive in Ponca City until dark, only to discover that Brown wasn’t there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His hair didn’t look quite so dark, as if the color was leaching out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark—the color comes from molasses, which also makes that form of sugar spicy and even bitter. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I missed the water with the oars in the dark as a wave lifted the boat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes were large, dark and long-lashed and intense, and every minute or so his sharp, dark-pointed tongue peeped out at the corner of his lips and flicked across them moistly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed to find a campsite and shelter before dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was dark and his teeth flashed when he smiled. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he read the Spinoza aloud to himself the words had a rich, dark sound. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her mother sat behind her on the edge of the narrow bed, loosed the dark brown hair, and brushed it to a gloss. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth of dark energies that drew me to The Mecca, that drew out Prince Jones, the warmth of our particular world, is beautiful, no matter how brief and breakable. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed onto his own bed and stared up at the dark canvas roof, listening to the pounding of the rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Henry and I pull in to pick up Ronan, it's still dark outside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All of them, dozens, each pod, empty and dark. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her cropped dark bob, usually in tight waves against her head, is sticking out all over. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Richard is younger than I am by a year, and a bit shorter and broader, with dark, serious eyes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Wylan, your thoughts have taken a very dark turn. I fear the Dregs may be a bad influence.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she found her fur-lined coat, and they very quietly left the chamber and made their way down the dark stairs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The family song was alive now and driving him down on the dark enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

More shouts and more curses cut out the windows and traveled across the parade ground, dying out somewhere across the dark pavement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the middle of a dark room surrounded by maybe a hundred and twenty foot-high statuettes of Smokey the Bear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was taller than Robin, with glossy dark brown hair, brown skin, and eyes the color of a shiny penny. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t realize where his feet had led him until he’d reached a short corridor, darker than most. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is the dark axis of the year, when things done are ill done. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There's no grass, for one thing, and it isn’t dark enough for any of the flashing lights to seem quirky or romantic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shoji looks back at me with his dark, familiar eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her thick silver hair falls over her dark shoulders, and she gathers and plaits it again. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lace doilies covered everything, and the furniture was handmade in a style that favored curving lines and dark woods. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

With that, Jello went back to the puppies and the three sped away like dark birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice, cold and dark, suddenly whispered in my ear, What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The dark horse—the difficult piece in any puzzle that doesn’t seem to be there at all until you need it.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But we will know as we near the trench, because there will be signs and dark portents.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It's a close game, which means it's a long one, and by our last hand my vision keeps blurring from tiredness and the strain of seeing in the dark. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I want to press my forehead against the window to get a better view of the houses, but it’s dark and I’m still shrunken in my seat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mam was vain about her thick, dark hair and refused to cut it ever again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z