Flooded with dread and adrenaline, I see darkness coming. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the brisk air, with a few early songbirds starting up and our eyes getting used to the darkness, I felt a little bit better, like somehow life was going on. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She looked up at him, and here in the ordinary darkness, he seemed to have lost some of his otherworldly glow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door closed behind them, and they stood in darkness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor didn’t really get the joke, but he laughed along with them, feeling the darkness drain out of his body. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cavern is empty and the hallways stretch into darkness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The darkness hid the dirt stains on my clothes from view. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey into the darkness ahead: the road to Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes forward and feel for the steps under my feet, but it was hard not to see what the darkness and flashing lights were doing to the other kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a relief to be away from the darkness, away from the scary air. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Looking up at the swirling tentacles of darkness, Frank felt like he was trapped at the bottom of a flushing toilet bowl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Later still, the whispers faltered, and there was silence in the darkness of the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had a better-than-average chance of being busted if you practiced your abilities, even under the cover of darkness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of black haze traveled back up the lines of fire, snuffing out the light and heat and covering Leo in darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two eyes, round and bright, seemingly with no pupils, gleamed through the darkness of the confessional. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his hand passed they settled again, whining in the darkness, and after a bit he just let them eat and kept paddling. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their outlines had merged in the darkness; no wonder he hadn’t seen her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We skulked about in the banana-smelling darkness, examining the wall over the plank counter where Mother tacks up pictures she tears out of magazines. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way had been only faintly lit, but once I turned that corner I found myself in complete darkness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winter darkness descended, the afternoon slowly graying into night. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As her eyes got used to the darkness she realized that the other inhabitants of the seats were also dogs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Down, down the winding passage they went, through darkness and spider webs and dripping water, until at last they emerged into a cold wind, brilliant sunlight, and the sound of waves breaking on rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the house quite clearly despite the darkness, so it followed he could probably see us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Between the two faces there stretched a darkness and a mystery that John feared, and that sometimes caused him to hate her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stars glitter in the western darkness, but the sky pales to gray in the east. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding the board open for Marshall when, out of the darkness and silence behind, something grabbed her with crushing strength, and big hard fingers smothered the scream that sprang into her throat. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went below in the darkness, drank two glasses of water to celebrate finding land, then went back up to the cockpit to sit and wait for dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness settled, the Spirit Bear failed to show itself again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All he could recall having heard about Communists was associated in his mind with darkness, old houses, people speaking in whispers, and trade unions on strike. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw felt his way through the darkness, towards where the voice was coming from. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“The others will only awaken as needed. With increasing darkness comes answering light,” said Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We have a popcorn ceiling in our basement, and in the darkness, its texture makes shadowy pictures and faces. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

With his thumb and his forefinger, he slides my eyelids shut, sentencing me to the vulnerability of darkness. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon reflected over the lake, which sat still in the darkness of the brisk night. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At first there’s nothing; just a receding darkness, like a tunnel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Burgundy curtains shut the darkness outside and made the one big room even cozier. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not understand where Voldemort had gone and expected him to swoop out of the darkness at any moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It came as an unspeakable relief to see that my clothes were undisturbed, but that respite lasted only as long as it took for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had begun to worry that darkness would fall before I found Hassan when I heard voices from up ahead. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see her darkness shining through the wet places. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt on her pallet in the darkness and clasped her hands together on her knees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Harry and Cedric stood there in the darkness for a moment, looking around them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reach a room resembling a large metal birdcage, with only darkness visible through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a blob of dark and the savage wrinkled up his face, trying to decipher the darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the darkness I can see a gleam of light, to the side. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of steps led down into profound darkness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She climbed up on the rail fence and followed its zigzag course until she disappeared in the darkness. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That something magical had occurred in that summer of the world’s fair was beyond doubt, but darkness too had touched the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She could always help me find light in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He slinked into the room, blending into the darkness. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The quick darkness in the carriage cars when they shot through a tunnel made them wonder if maybe there was a wall ahead to crash into or a cliff hanging over nothing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked outside again, where the snow was still falling as darkness fell. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they shut the door, the darkness was complete. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the reverend told us: All had been darkness and now there was light. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down there on the lawn, someone emerges from the spill of darkness under the willow, steps across the light, his long shadow attached sharply to his heels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as any light touched the water, it sank beneath the surface and disappeared, gobbled up by the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jess inched over, groping in the darkness until her fingers brushed their faces. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald almost ran to Angel’s bedroom, feeling his way in the darkness. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as darkness fell, three white Unitarian ministers who had come to Selma to take part in the march were assaulted by a gang of whites as they left a restaurant. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only then that Inigo allowed the darkness to claim him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lying belly down in the darkness, Cole felt his legs and chest sting as if they were on fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She stared at Bob’s back as he led them toward the wall of darkness, now only a few hundred yards away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A whisper of rain was beginning through a sunny sky, distant black clouds not close enough to throw the valley into darkness. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he was only thinking of Sticky to take his mind off himself, for the prospect of groping about in the darkness intimidated him more than he cared to admit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A wall of darkness slammed into Kampe, sending the monster sideways. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She brought him pulque to drink in a little pitcher, and still he shook his head to clear out the darkness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Kino awakened, with the evil music pulsing in him, and he lay in the darkness with his ears alert. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, in all this whirlwind, in the darkness of his heart, in the storm—was something—something he must find. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maggot got down and took a good look either way, north and south, but nothing could be seen in the darkness, and there was not a sound in the still air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But she said it to the empty darkness of her bedroom, and heard nothing in reply but the low trundle of a distant lorry, making its way through the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

‘It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The crypt continued on into darkness ahead of them, but beyond this point the tombs were empty and unsealed; black holes waiting for their dead, waiting for him and his children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Trying to catch stars behind the cloudy darkness. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

June and August, sopping wet, stooped on either side of her, while mosquitoes sang in our ears and the river went on about its business, coiling off into the darkness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feeling of great darkness and foreboding entered my heart. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He collided with an outcropping of rock, rolled again, and dropped suddenly into the darkness. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Kaede could have sworn she saw the eyes of wolves peering out at her from the cover of darkness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I push past the innkeeper and follow them into the darkness. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis lay abed, staring into the darkness, the smell of his perspiration and urine thick in the chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Feeling small in the darkness, they walked through the entrance hall and up several steps to the next room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness behind their shut lids they all saw the same thing: no color at all, only loss like a hole torn in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Precisely because they were rare, the mutants had acted like lamps in the darkness, allowing biologists to track “the action of a gene,” as Morgan had described it, across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

All Muslims felt as one that without his light, we would all be in darkness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was drawn to painful thoughts, fear, darkness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was not a breath of wind in the darkness, and the glowworms were dancing above the dry grass as Dustfinger crept back to Capricorn's village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sierra stopped walking and glanced to either side, but the forest’s darkness was unyielding. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A sound rose out of the darkness, faint and distant, but unmistakable: the howling of wolves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A child emerged from a pool of darkness, a pale boy in a ragged robe, no more than nine or ten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He followed her across the hall into the library which was in darkness, and waited by the door while she searched for the switch of a desk lamp. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then heavy breathing like the howl of the wind rushed toward them, and then a paw the size of a small car emerged from the foggy darkness of the valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At first, the fireflies had simply floated through the darkness, heating the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And furthermore, Britten might want him as a witness against Jan. He smiled while he lay in the darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only darkness in the sky-buckets now, spilling out over everything and everybody. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I ran down the tower stairs that turned in a spiral, emerging dizzy into the darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Peering down at the ground passing below, Tally could hardly make out anything in the weed- choked darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You throw stones in and they sink into the darkness and dissolve. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood real still and squinted into the darkness of the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Will hauled himself up painfully, peered through the deep darkness, and made out a blur of white on the ground beside the man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman bent low to see her face and saw darkness staining his hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lain in the darkness of her room, her mind blank, her body numb. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I cry, will darkness hide my tears? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Into a darkness that would go on and on and never end. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie’s snarls so alarmed Frightful that, despite the darkness, she flew for the nest box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We all lay there in the silent darkness. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to see but wintery darkness. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The darkness blanketed his gaze with filthy shadows and drained the blush of life from his cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, around the corner, gliding noiselessly, came dementors, ten or more of them, visible because they were of a denser darkness than their surroundings, with their black cloaks and their scabbed and rotting hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then darkness spread over the page, and with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his sleep; and when he stirred, Juana’s eyes opened in the darkness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped at least she'd say something about the poem's descriptions of dusk and moonlight and darkness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The dirty airport curtain was a great comfort and a darkness and a shield. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful stench of Paradise Vendors, Incorporated, sometimes led the overwhelmed and perplexed stroller to glance through the open door into the darkness of the garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was numb and aching from the temperature of the water, and the darkness was impenetrable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt the darkness, but nothing else, and my head rose, feeling it, like the head of a worm. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She would have stopped immediately had she not still been so completely bound to the notion that this was a bush, and that she was witnessing some trick of darkness and perspective. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Even in this place of fear and darkness, the Lord of Light protects us,” Ser Godry Farring told the men who gathered to watch as the stakes were hammered down into the holes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To achieve vision in this way, this journey into a darkness that is composed of women, a woman, who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched and cringed behind the sofa as if neither furniture nor darkness were enough to hide him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Floating amidst this darkness and death, I have time not only for reflection but for honesty. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Whirling darkness came up from the North Whirling darkness moved along to the East It came along the South It arrived in the West Whirling darkness spiraled downward and it came up in the Middle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed himself into the darkness of the chassis by the front wheel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Minutes before darkness plunged, rain started to fall and I had barely enough time to pack everything I had into the nylon duffel and hang it from a tree branch to keep it dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A quick glance around revealed nothing in the darkness—but the moaning and sounds of falling bodies.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stones looked blacker than they had in the darkness and there were many of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Lula reported to me that, after dinner, Harry and Fern sat outside in the darkness on the porch swing for a good half hour with no chaperones except the mosquitoes. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were slapping noises filtering through the oniony darkness around him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who still remembered the fairy princess and the world cursed to darkness. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For each star there was a night and a place; this was the last night and the last place, when the darkness of night and the light of day were balanced. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could sense but could not see, in the darkness, what it was. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there was still darkness in that hall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Indeed, at night when she was too tired or too hot to sleep, she would take the gunnysack out from under her straw mattress and count the money in the darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I peer down into the grate, but see only darkness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The pale moon dipped in and out of the strands of clouds so that Juana walked in darkness for a moment and in light the next. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lights of lantern and werelight gleamed in the windows of the Great House, and down the hill the streets of Thwil town filled with darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tally peered through the darkness, trying to make out his expression. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The darkness felt... emptier in front of us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was another darkness we had to live with. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it would lie secure in the darkness, long after anyone who cared was dead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yet when he closed his eyes, he could still see the light of the comet, red and fiery and vividly alive amidst the darkness of his dreams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Simon climbed out of the water and dried himself in the darkness before dressing and joining the group. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Omakayas’s mind tried to grasp what she was hearing, her heart tumbled into darkness and she could not speak. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

You had to live— did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With my last shreds of consciousness, I scour the ground for my scims and crawl out of the darkness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s a safe darkness, a familiar, right darkness. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As he lay there, thinking and getting a hold of himself, he noticed all at once that the darkness was slowly giving way: a pale greenish light was growing round him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is something about sudden darkness in a classroom of twenty-four sixth graders that sets off mischief. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But through the darkness that enveloped him he heard another metallic click, and knew that the cage door had clicked shut and not open. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Clouds hid the moon, and the willow tree was shrouded in darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There were no bodies in the pool, no giggling from the darkness of the pavilion, no shushing from the shadows of the bamboo thickets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for that reason his accomplishment took root in my mind and grew rapidly in the darkness where I was forced to hide it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel continued in front of us, but there was no floor for about a hundred feet, just gaping darkness and a series of iron rungs in the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The power might fizzle when the wind blew hard and leave them all in darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby crawled under the cabinet, searched in total darkness for the small hole, and finally felt one foot slip down. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hound had turned, clenching him in its metal-plier jaws, and trotted off in darkness, while the camera remained stationary, watching the creature dwindle in the distance—a splendid fade-out! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Close your eyes. Pretend that I am not a rat. Pretend that I am nothing but a voice in the darkness. A voice that cares. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The world is full of darkness, and that will never change. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Doon took hold of the handle that was on the right and pulled sideways, and the door rolled smoothly open to reveal more darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t learned what Mark had learned, hadn’t discovered the secret that had made Mark pack his bag and disappear into darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dusk was giving way to darkness as they made their way along the riverfront. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Here!” cried Hermione again a few moments later from out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The nut tree, wide above my head, stretching its cool black limbs to take the sun, sends darkness down my chest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is, his soul cried out again, no bottom to the darkness! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I just kept sprinting in and out of darkness, hoofing it through puddles of streetlight, legs pumping, gut cramping, lungs burning, brain screaming. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He looked into her intense, eager face and then out into the surrounding darkness, thinking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I want you to listen to me. They surrendered to their darkness. You don’t have to, and I want you to promise me that you never will.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The flame sputtered out in the murky water, and the sewer was thrown into sudden darkness. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The women would carry their knitting to the doorstep, and they would all talk quietly there till the mosquitoes and the coming darkness drove them indoors. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Beverly shone the flashlight ahead of them, and they walked out of the terrible darkness of Building 10 and into the normal darkness of nighttime. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The other side revealed nothing but darkness, though a rumbling hum like the sound of distant machinery grew louder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor grasped the sides and hung on as they shot into the darkness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday evening, May 7, 1892, McElroy loaded a special train with pipes, picks, shovels, and three hundred men and set off for Waukesha to dig his pipeline under cover of darkness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He plunged down into the killing darkness of the crevasse. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His head ached and his eyes saw phantom lights in the darkness, but he struggled to steady himself and think. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a darkness in him that made her uneasy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two and a half miles of complete darkness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The thin rivulet of a tear fell quietly down her pale cheekbone, disappearing into the darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was over as quickly as it had come: Harry stood shaking in the darkness, clutching the gate into the garden, his heart racing, his scar still tingling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he came out of the darkness of the pond the sun caught his shiny scales and the light reflected orange and yellow and red. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were growing used to the darkness and a little light seeped into the room from the winter sky through a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So we shoveled in the darkness and silence. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles at Poppet and Widget, with a curious glance at Bailey, as he escorts them through the darkness into something like a sleigh or a carriage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After the hot, bright house she could smell the new autumn in the darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If the night creatures won, then there would be darkness all the time on the earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in the darkness, beyond where I can see, a woman moans. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The shadows deepened and darkness covered the beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged to the darkness—the darkness from which he had thought to flee had claimed him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon’s flare has nearly gone out, darkness encroaching on the plain once more. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Boiling waves crashed into the narrow channel, their whitecaps glowing in the darkness, their hungry roars reaching her ears. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He dissolved into a pool of inky darkness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Frederick leans over the side of his bunk, and for a moment in the nearly complete darkness Werner believes they will finally say to each other what they have not been able to say. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the darkness, the cool air cleared my head. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He ran from the barracks into the hallway, piercing the darkness with his flashlight as he headed straight for the cockpit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were bluer than ever, bluer than they should have been in the darkness. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I think that will do,” said the white-haired Dumbledore at Harry’s side, and seconds later, they were soaring weightlessly through darkness once more, before landing squarely in the present-day office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I plunge into the darkness...and immediately scream and drop my phone as a group of bats whirl into a frenzy near the ceiling as soon as the light shines on them. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He led the dog out into the darkness. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building would absorb the entire neighborhood like a light-sucking vampire that turned everything into darkness. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness of the night creeps into my heart. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I had reached the no man’s ocean of darkness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting my hands on either side of the opening and standing on tiptoes, I looked up into the darkness. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the darkness to my right I see fireflies lighting up to a rhythm that is like a heartbeat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then they picked themselves up and fled into the darkness, cursing him as they went. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was in the shadows, he ran on soft feet for the large rubbish bins halfway down, almost invisible in the darkness on the right-hand side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To see the khan’s horse rear up at an encroaching darkness that pounces on him like a pack of wolves. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And there was the house, Warings, the darkness and oldness of it, and the queer smell, he was frightened all the time he was here. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We stayed still in the darkness of a tree until he moved on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I muttered to myself in the darkness, Guess what, Mom? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally crawled up the boulders and into the cave, scrambling back into the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They climbed down into the boat and went back along the canal in the darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she remembered a voice in the darkness, a gentle whispering voice, and what it had told her to do. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Outside, as always, lies the great darkness, the cold, death’s solitude. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most difficult test, in her opinion, was the isolation chamber where she remained in total darkness. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Covering my lamp, I made my way in darkness to the closet near the kitchen where medicines were prepared. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By the time the third and premier event of the day, the varsity race, approached, the sun had begun to set and a murky, swampish darkness was settling over the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But just as the moon rose in the darkness, Minli felt a sudden jerk on the string. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes shut tight, tipped back into darkness, icy currents against his face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the darkness, while my teeth were slowly coerced into straightness, the rest of my face had begun to give in to a stronger, genetic predisposition toward crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On he led them, into the mouth of darkness, and still on under the deep clouded night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The last thing he saw as he retreated into the darkness was Kamau taking a final draw from the pipe, lost to a madness Ekon did not know. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The victorious procession marched on toward the open ground, and after a while Harry could tell, by the lightening of the darkness through his closed eyelids, that the trees were beginning to thin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All that was just the darkness, just the storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The shapeless mass of darkness he had lifted split apart. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kilvin reached out and extinguished the one remaining lamp, bringing the room to near total darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Strange scenes swam before me, first in light, then darkness, then light again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars were shining above; but over the ground there crept a darkness blacker than the night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her underground prison waned as the darkness reclaimed it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even as the darkness became so complete that trees and rocks became not objects but mere shadows, he climbed, until finally he reached the stone outcropping. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A torrent of darkness, frantic wings, and fury. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My flashlight reached into the darkness ahead, flickering off the damp stone walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I move down through the darkness, burning with murderous lust, my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself as objectively as might a mind ten centuries away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Voice stayed longer because of the constant darkness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her face is a white gleam in the darkness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, languishing in each crimson-tinted twilight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the front room, Francie whispered to her brother, “What do you think of it?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew more afraid of the darkness; I shut my eyes, pulled the blanket over my head and minutes later I was in dreamland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was calling out “Help!” into the darkness. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty stands up, nothing broken, and watches as Zizmo hurdes crazily on into the darkness . . . sixty yards . . . eighty ... a hundred . . . until suddenly another sound is heard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There is nothing she would not do, I thought, lying there in the darkness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, deep down, I had felt that if I took another name, an Americanized one, I’d finally break free of this darkness that followed me everywhere. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kathleen waited breathlessly all day for night to fall, and when darkness came she plucked the leaves from the wreath and set them afire in a small dish at the foot of her bed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and stared into the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The darkness didn’t make anything easy, and neither did the fact that they were afraid to travel too long on any road near the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because of the utter darkness and the painful throbbing in my head, I knew not where I was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then from out of the darkness, I heard the deep growling of some beast. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness,” O’Brien had said to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When night came it did but deepen the darkness, and our hearts were hot, for away in the North we saw a red glow under the cloud, and Aragorn said: “Minas Tirith is burning.” The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But that night “Now I lay me” came back unbidden in the darkness. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness slows my footsteps until I’m practically crawling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I waited for my eyes to get used to the darkness of the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought how easy it would be to drop beside it himself, to let himself and Gabriel slide into the softness of snow, the darkness of night, the warm comfort of sleep. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers glowed only faintly in the darkness, but he could see them, and he was still holding at 250 degrees. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m all alone in the darkness, even though its daytime and I’m surrounded by people. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Laser beams sliced through the smoky darkness in time to the music. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We pulled up a hill until we reached a trailer that was glowing in the darkness, lit by a fire burning in a barrel out front. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Even if it’s a sunny day but you see darkness and shadows. Paint it as you see it.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the darkness a fist thudded; a body hit the deck; a slurring scrape said someone was dragging the sleeping Corey forward. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes seemed to glow eerily in the darkness, like those of an animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I lay awake and stared into the darkness. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare into the darkness, thinking about my conversation with Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold, lonely darkness, the yarrow gave him comfort. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was hazy, and behind it, following it slowly up the sky, there was a growing darkness, as of a great storm moving out of the East. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She must have caught sight of them just as he saw her, because she slipped back into the darkness of the trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a good baseball throw away, but it looked like forever with darkness all around and wolves behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Its great metal arms stretched into the darkness, and the silver turning rod shone with the ghostly reflections of the phone’s glow. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Night became day—brighter than day, no darkness left alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were no stars in the sky, and as we walked, it seemed as if the darkness was getting thicker. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They stood there for a minute, clinging to each other in fear of the darkness they had seen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran into the darkness, stumbling over starded couples, but there was no way to tell where he had gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly man in a blue blazer scampers out of the darkness. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The darkness and the silence seemed to become, all of a sudden, much deeper. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness behind Clyde, a voice growled, “Make that four.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Emily, breathing quietly in the darkness, gauged the state of the household by straining to listen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We all lie in the belly of the Crepuscule and gaze into the darkness, awaiting sleep impatiently. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She tempered the voice as her eyes adjusted to the darkness and settled on a bed at the end of the line. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Before darkness covers it and for many hours, there are only shadows and stars and tears and hope. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now it was galloping around and around the black shapes on the ground, and the dementors were falling back, scattering, retreating into the darkness.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Here the invisible world hovered closer to the ground, mixing with the darkness in the groves. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Scipio hesitated as his eye fell on the low bench half hidden in the darkness, but then he kneeled down on it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared into the darkness, searching it for her face, trying to understand what power my brother had over her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The moment they opened the door, Pong felt the darkness stir behind his left shoulder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I can’t let him slink off to that darkness place inside him, where his pride is strewn all over the floor in some hidden room. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

With full darkness, the remaining men rose from the fireside. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I, ah ... well, it said, You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze ...” We waited. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It curved away on their left northward, back towards the hills, and so barred their road in that direction, at any rate while darkness lasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Soon, with complete darkness, the stars pop out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sea foam, gray in the darkness, runs over our shoes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sam, clinging to Frodo’s arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They took a winding lane up toward the Forester farm, and the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain and darkness conspired to hide his features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Constantin's room had a balcony, and the balcony overlooked the river, and we could hear the hooing of the tugs down in the darkness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The milk left a moon crescent on the darkness of her upper lip, which she didn’t bother to wipe away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino opened his eyes in the darkness, for he sensed movement near him, but he did not move. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance said, forgetting that Sticky had spent his entire day standing in filth, darkness, and bug swarms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I followed them toward the cliff, but finally lost them in the darkness. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out in their clouds with darkness before the evening cool slowed them and Brian tried brushing them away from his face and Derek’s, but it was like trying to brush smoke. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then it goes: three audible wing beats and the darkness swallows it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The darkness made me see pinwheels like sparklers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only exit was on the far wall—an arched doorway that led into darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The army of the Scyldings and all their allies stretched off in the darkness as far as the eye could see—down the slopes of the hill, down the stone-paved roadways, away into the trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hide,” said Harry as he pointed his wand at Bogrod, who whistled to summon a little cart that came trundling along the tracks toward them out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She lowered the spyglass and squinted into the darkness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Chapter Eleven left a light on for more than a minute, he returned to total darkness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Dare not?” shouted Sir Lancelot, and he went into the darkness staggering, laughing like a caricature, and calling for his horse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked downward and saw nothing but black darkness into which now and then a few flakes of white floated from the sky, falling slowly in the dim glow of the flashlight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the gathering darkness, it seemed like he was looking past me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were no cars and the street lights were on, now that darkness had come, but the sidewalk on the other side of the street was completely empty. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a moment before his eyes, blinded by the feeble lantern-flame, could make any form of the darkness. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra was staring out the window, trying not to see Manny’s endlessly open mouth in the flickering darkness, when Bennie leaned over to her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Quentyn could sense that there was something in that darkness, coiled and waiting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The darkness enveloped them like a soft cloth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Terrified, Cole waited, his eyes prying at the darkness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As darkness drew in again Harry refused Hermione’s offer to keep watch and told her to go to bed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He gazed around at the apparently empty darkness and felt its menace. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood there for what felt like a long time after their boat disappeared into the darkness. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be fine. I know a shortcut home, even in this darkness.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept walking, soon in darkness again as they left the faint light bleeding around the edges of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Blood, men killed, that was what they too were thinking of, the dark past with its promise of more darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on a ballast-sack of sand there in the windy glare and darkness of the port. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, if I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I’d choose you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, I dropped the candle, spilling the molten wax on my feet; the room was plunged into utter darkness, for the bright light disappeared barely seconds after it had flashed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could fairness find its way to them through all that darkness? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Stop!” a voice like sandpaper yells from behind us, flooding the darkness with a cruel light. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The raft climbed higher and higher, aiming for the circular hole in the ceiling, until we shot out of the darkness of the Thicket and into the red-orange glow of the afternoon sun. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Under cover of darkness, Shin went with other traders from the truck to a part of the rail yard where freight trains were assembled and dispatched. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A gruff voice rang out from the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could not see his face in the darkness, but his voice was furious. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A man’s voice spoke in the darkness a few feet away, and said, “Who are you?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But of course she don’t say nothing and just looks off to a place farther into the darkness, crosses her arms, and starts heading off there. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They are moving silently, endlessly, all of them, through the darkness of the sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jess looked out at the storm, out at the new darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The water hit Leo’s face like a brick wrapped in sandpaper, and he sank into darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was the flat darkness of a room with the lights off. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness swelled a familiar figure, wholly out of place in Faraday’s neighborhood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Amari knew they needed to travel in the safety of darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the man slipped back into the darkness, watching Ignatius, who was waddling back and forth before the building furiously. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I get out of bed, pad to the window, and peer out into the darkness. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

While he piled the stuff on to the scale, Francie blinked, adjusting her eyes to the darkness and was aware of the mossy air and the odor of wetted rags. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jungle stranger was still staring at me, although he couldn’t possibly see me hidden in the darkness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The sun was still high and that meant that he had some time before darkness to find berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch until its lilac body disappears in the darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The last thing she saw before slipping into darkness was Jaime looking at her with such love in his eyes that she thought she must be dreaming. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, when you see it, shines high; there is no slow bleeding away of light into the darkness, as on the polar slopes of Earth where cold and night come on together. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness rippled, and Cain’s gaping features appeared. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, that afternoon, that moment, when that first molecule pierced her skin, was the beginning of our connection, one that led me into a darkness that was as twisted as it was sublime. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But when the sun descended, when the shadows of the square’s giant shade trees met and combined, the coldness as well as darkness numbed the crowd. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatty's pink, phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the game of his friend and felt the mild, quiet afternoon merge with the darkness of evening. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The other firemen waited behind him, in the darkness, their faces illuminated faintly by the smouldering foundation. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin wail out of the darkness chilled them and set them grabbing for each other. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It felt warm from all the firing he’d done and heavy in my hand, and I had no idea if it still had bullets or even how, in the near darkness, to check. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, just before the end of the silflay, Captain Campion came up the field with a patrol of three and Chervil ran out to meet him on the sentry line. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, her fingers found her wrist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

You hurried silently along the river bottom, stung by mosquitoes, hooted by owls, zoomed by bats, buzzed by snakes that rattled among the rocks, mud and fever, darkness and sighing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I left Marco on his hands and knees, scrabbling in the darkness for another, smaller darkness that hid the light of his diamond from his furious eyes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I roll over in bed, and squint through the darkness: It's 5:43 in the morning. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They were thunderclouds of deep gray-blue, rising columns of layered darkness. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael would find later, long after the trial, that their darkness would beleaguer his memory of these days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tumbled through the branches, struck my head, and fell into darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But gradually Tally grew accustomed to the darkness, the roar of water below, the unexpected slap of cold spray against her face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Things in the swamp whistled and splashed, hunting in the living darkness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were lying in bed in the darkness. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness just before dawn, they called us to rise. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The darkness around Dicey lifted, as if a blanket had been taken off her head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father said, “They are living in darkness. Broken in body and soul, and don’t even see how they could be healed.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, a light detached itself from the shore and began to bob up and down in the darkness. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It’s past midnight, so all the street lights are dark, and the buildings look like mammoths as they rise from the darkness and then sink into it again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And She that walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then the ironic voice, terrified, it seemed, of no depth, no darkness, demanded of John, scornfully, if he believed that he was cursed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Daddy says he named me Starr because I was his light in the darkness. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It will allow you to speak to any and all beings. Because this is my craft, it will only work when there is more darkness than light.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His footsteps echoed in the darkness as he walked away. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she climbed down in darkness, I explained about the hollows that were chasing us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She searched for the light of the candle by the grave but saw only darkness. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn a corner, open a door, and step into darkness. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the darkness of the further end of the shelter came a dreadful moaning and they shattered the leaves in their fear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he blew out his bedside candle,-darkness covered him like a soft, familiar blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the darkness was filled with the glow of men and women who carried the blessings of Father Cham with them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Some shone like white lace curtains in the moonlight, but others struck unexpectedly from the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now to the right, now the left, now backward, now forward, moving into the darkness over ice as smooth as marble. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With a tingle of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then he pushed his robot closer to Donovan’s so that they were sitting face to face, dim shadows in the darkness, and he whispered, “Mike!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Brother Anatole, I fail to see how the church can mean anything but joy, for the few here who choose Christi-an-ity over ignorance and darkness!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is he—?" "The khal lives," Irri answered quietly ... yet Dany saw a darkness in her eyes when she said the words, and no sooner had she spoken than she rushed away to fetch water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Jinny,” said Ben in the darkness, his voice sharp but quiet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes to spare us both the embarrassment, then opened them again, terrified of the darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Pea,” said Despereaux, and the name of his beloved was immediately swallowed up by the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Without it, there would be no clumps of matter and thus no stars, just drifting gas and everlasting darkness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But their luck held, and for the rest of that day they met no living or moving thing; and when night fell they vanished into the darkness of Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Strange and wonderful I thought it that the designs of Mordor should be overthrown by such wraiths of fear and darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He sat at attention in the darkness of the Prytania only a few rows from the screen, his body filling the seat and protruding into the two adjoining ones. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Beatrice closed the door, they were in total darkness; Roy couldn’t see his own fingers in front of his face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, alone in the darkness, without a mirror, he had washed his face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell around us, the road twisted through dense forest for several miles until it came to a short, narrow bridge with room for only one car to pass. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness, and touch, smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of darkness began to crumble again, pushing Annabeth against the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In one moment, she was before it; in the next, she’d plunged into darkness, alone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From what I can see in the darkness, the trestle drops down to a rocky riverbank twenty yards below. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two Step said, squinting out into the darkness. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel also knew that the instant her own concentration wavered and that darkness touched her, she would collapse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ground split at Annabeth’s feet and she fell into darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I shuddered in the darkness of the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he kept seeing Arthur Richmond's face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Where houses were, where windows stared, where gutters ran, were people—sleeping now, invisible, private, in the heavy darknesses of these houses, while the Lord’s day broke outside. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They swam out of the darkness and the rain, and were as quickly swallowed up in it again. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few spots looked promising, but in the growing darkness, she couldn’t be certain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Away, far away into the darkness and alone! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He went in and stood for a moment in the darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They were right in this room last night. The cat was here today. They know everything. They won’t give up. What we really ought to do is take him out tonight, under cover of darkness.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as he was becoming quite sure of it, there suddenly came a deep, rich sigh out of the darkness beside him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I stared at him, and he stared back, a patch of darkness lighter than the rest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am on sentry and stare into the darkness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel forked on either side of them, disappearing into darkness, but before them was a metal door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Five people had emerged from the darkness of the Berg, dressed in outfits that sent a chill racing down Mark’s spinal cord. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Our village had no electricity, and our daytime cooking fires burned too low at night to give off any light, so each night brought nearly total darkness to the inside of our house and luak. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that he could see in the darkness was something golden glinting far ahead of him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lily jumps from the darkness and, in a swift, practiced movement, inserts and turns the key. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But somewhere on the oval’s apron, a San Francisco Examiner photographer had stepped out of the darkness and snapped the horse’s picture. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the Golden Glen loomed up out of the darkness like a ship that had run aground. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As light begins to seep through the darkness outside the window, around 5:00 a.m., he tells me that he’s playing the organ in the Episcopal Church on Banner Street at the eight o’clock service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Described by survivors all over the city, the sudden darkness was caused by the enormous amount of dust and debris thrown into the air by the force of the blast. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the paralyzed Dolohov, thinking fast as the lock clicked and Ron used the Deluminator to plunge the café into darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they chose to stay in another area, and then the darkness rustled with unfriendly noises. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprinted into the darkness of the parking lot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told of an ancient feud between two brothers which split all the world between darkness and light. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around at the other two, now mere outlines in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He held her in his arms again, listening in the darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At Queens- crown, one had come out of the darkness to save Jon’s life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An antique four-poster bed threw shadowy spires in the darkness, and a pale sliver of light poked through a gap in the velvet curtains. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She went into the lean-to, the gray room, and closed the door and sat in the darkness, listening to the pain creep back into her fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her disappointment she had let her mind wander, and only now became aware that one of the Recruiters was peering into the darkness in her direction. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the things she’s always hated about life here: these chilly, abbreviated days of early winter, darkness descending mere hours after noon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas fidgeted on his feet, wondering how Newt could stand there, perfectly patient and still, staring into nothing but darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

No one had noticed: the noise of the wind and the engines and the pounding hail covered the man’s cry, and in the darkness his body couldn’t be seen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Triste was leaving the house with his mother at seven in the evening when a rifle shot came out of the darkness and perforated his forehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I saw her in the light— After the darkness, the feeble light of the paraffin lamp had seemed very bright. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He thought about the times he had gone to the movies with Father and how much they had loved being together in the darkness of the cinema. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The only sound, just before dawn, was a night watchman, far away down a lonely street, walking along in the darkness, humming a very strange song.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on a creepy night like this, the park’s darkness seemed welcoming somehow, its shushing leaves beckoning her from across the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All about them the darkness grew silent, and no cry came on the sighing wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I quickly obeyed; the snap as the belt connected was loud in the darkness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They covered their tracks with leaves and headed into the darkness once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down there in the darkness was a cistern filled with water so sweet that he could smell it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the time he came to his senses, darkness had fallen and it was too late to do any sensible tracking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The last things he saw before he was pulled off into the darkness of the court were the pale worried faces of Dunwing and Warbeak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Long corks that kept the darkness bottled in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this darkness she dared not run, for fear of tripping on some unseen root or losing her way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly he lifted his hands in the darkness and held them in mid-air, the fingers spread weakly open. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only his eyes searched the darkness, and in the pale light of the moon that crept through the holes in the brush house Kino saw Juana arise silently from beside him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, at knee level, in total darkness, I found spiders living in webs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness gets bigger; it’s pushing at the edges of my skull, clouding mv vision. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laughter rippled across the darkness like a silken ribbon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes will see nothing in the darkness, where I am waiting between the trees. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tripping over a dead limb, I sprawled through the darkness and didn’t bother to get up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the night, and Mom bolted out of the car and ran into the darkness. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, she thought brightly lit windows were an inviting sight in the dark, but these seemed far more menacing than the darkness all around. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bat clung briefly to his shirt before sliding off into the darkness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even through the darkness, Gabe could see that his eyes glittered. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bill the pony gave a wild neigh of fear, and turned tail and dashed away along the lakeside into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the cave, a door took shape. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flashlight switches off and the darkness rushes back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I feel the serum clinging to my skin like oil, but the darkness recedes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You can already feel it, can’t you, in all this happiness, that some horrible darkness perched outside the houses watching Aziz. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of the tiny spiders crawled into the mouth of the hole, disappearing into its darkness. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I edged into the darkness and saw Emily Sue and Tootsie Rose sitting on a bench and went over and talked to them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scanned the darkness, the impenetrable shadows of the trees. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

HARRY: He’d have only got more powerful—the darkness would only have got darker. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast to the darkness of his hair, though, his eyes are limpid and blue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After a moment, lying there in darkness, hearing the creak of the raft and feeling its motion, it all hit me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the gap was wide enough, Malcolm drove La Belle Sauvage forward and through, and into the darkness beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a woman’s voice, reedy and low in the darkness of the corridor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tally felt herself crying, the tears driven backward by the wind The trees rushed past in the darkness for a while. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another white wisp of a figure stepped out from the darkness. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That whole week, we had all got used to coming home to darkness and candlelight. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But now the Klan provided no answers for the questions that stormed out of the darkness, like soldiers into battle, threatening to overwhelm him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And, somewhere in the darkness ahead, a mountain lost in storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then later in the darkness: Can I ask you something? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It almost seemed like the Underworld, because I immediately felt claustrophobic and I couldn’t see the sky above—just a close, heavy darkness, as if I were in a cave. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in, prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the underground river. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the edges was the immense darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two and a half miles is a long way in complete darkness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She lay still, her eyes open in the darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out into the darkness, saw the moss hang like drool from the pines. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scythes wished to be seen as the many facets of light, not of darkness. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Gabriel Witter, unable to sleep in complete darkness, had finally started to get rest since the television arrived. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The more fiercely the man burned in life, the brighter his star will shine in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadows but mostly clothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Arul peered through the darkness until he could make out the inscription on the grave marker. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he lost all track of time. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the cracks, she saw nothing but empty darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One day God would give him a sign, and the darkness would all be finished—one day God would raise him, who had suffered him to fall so low. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was said to be a diamond, but there was a darkness in its core that made it different from a simple diamond ring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met in the darkness for only a moment before a decision was made. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sam began to wonder if a second darkness had begun and no day would ever reappear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The light streamed through the window behind him, yet his silhouette remained blanketed in darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tally nodded, her eyes tracing the familiar patterns of light and darkness surrounding the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the darkness, the long shadows, the quiet, this room is free of intruders and ghosts. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then John saw the Lord—for a moment only; and the darkness, for a moment only, was filled with a fight he could not bear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Otto pressed his hands into the new night, trying to feel his way through the darkness, anticipating Mr. Flux clutching his neck at any second. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A soft hand was put in his, and he was led out in the darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, the darkness was so great that we could see little. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He pulls it up and we tumble down into the darkness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I take in the angles of the room, the slant of light flooding through panes of glass, the planes that separate us, the irony of drapes to create darkness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The softness of her voice was unable to hide its intensity, and she was already pushing Pinmei into the darkness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

For a while the two who stayed could see the cricket waving, but then the train rushed away into the darkness of the tunnel and was lost. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights embedded in the shell of my hab-unit shut off, plunging the tiny compartment into darkness. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The silence was dense; the darkness was cold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped thinking about the darkness and depth when I looked up into the night sky. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I saw them lean and walk into the darkness of the storm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were somewhere beyond in the vast darkness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Grandma sat by her stove, comfortable with darkness too. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s the last thing he sees before the hand of eternal darkness covers his eyes—a poppy, red like blood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the darkness, Werner thinks the cellar may have its own faint light, perhaps emanating from the rubble, the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At last, just before darkness fell, Fiver re-crossed the bridge and coaxed them to follow him back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there were true dungeons down in the castle cellars—oubliettes and torture chambers and dank pits where huge black rats scrabbled in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hamlet bolted from the bed without a word, seized his clothes, and disappeared with Horatio into the darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I preferred to stay lost in the darkness of my dismal thoughts. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The darkness seemed to lift from Frodo’s eyes, or else his sight was returning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Something moved in the darkness of the rafters above. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Curly was afraid that the moccasins were lurking nearby in some secret subterranean den, waiting for darkness before they slithered out to begin their deadly hunt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later, on Rosebriar Road in Atlanta, an alarm clock knifed into the darkness of two o’clock in the morning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach and hips glow red in the subtle darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence for a few moments, separated by a body’s length of the deepening darkness, and Ash suddenly felt self-conscious, not knowing what to say. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fading light of day shone through the cave’s opening, barely illuminating the darkness around us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I revved up my laptops and started digging, not even close to knowing just how deep into darkness I would have to go to find out who burned Nicole Castro. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond the trash heaps there was nothing at all— that is, only the vast Unknown Regions, where the darkness was absolute. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thought surprised him, as if its source had been founded in actual memory, a wisp of light in the darkness of his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Was it possible something lived in the darkness below? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay my head down on my scrunched-up knees and close my eyes, even though I loathe the darkness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They could not move, but sat blinking and staring about them in the darkness, taking no notice of Blackberry’s coaxing or Bigwig’s orders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind them there were uncounted crowds of kneeling people in the darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The stairway turned and twisted; at one point, the darkness was such that the companions lost sight of each other. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Everything here—the sour air, the muffled noises, the depth of the darkness—was different. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his hand and found another hand with two rings on the same finger about to go astray in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then more lines appeared, one by one, tremulous arcs and circles sweeping through the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I aim in the darkness and take his picture, the flash blinding me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is nothing in sight except for the forested darkness of Shoshone County. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"But I like floating," whispers Helmuth into the shimmering darkness, and he does. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

With darkness upon me I had to leave the brush and run up in the hills, just along the tree line. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a long time, until the sun vanished behind the saw-toothed mountains and darkness began to creep through the forest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Either they had fled back into the darkness, or they’d fallen into the chasm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even in the darkness he noticed that the Night of. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not their fault that they were young and cheerful, he reminded himself as he carried the swinging beam of his flashlight back through the darkness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he has pulled himself out of his darkness enough to take yet another very long walk. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had just said my Sunset Prayer, El Maghrib-, I was lying on my cot in the fourth-tier compartment, feeling blue and alone, when out of the darkness came a sudden light! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard something—a deep whisper in the darkness. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was just after sunset and darkness bled in from the outer reaches of the sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One month she had paid in full and then hadn’t had enough money for groceries and electricity: what a thing, to choose between hunger and darkness. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another closed around his arm, dragging him down into darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he stretches his back, rubs his hands togevver against the cold, looks out at the heavy curtain of darkness, and tells us a truly frightening tale. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps an hour later, a sound in the darkness brought him bolt upright. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He broke into a trot, chasing the thread through the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

With the quilt pulled up around her she found herself looking with quick apprehension at the window, shining palely in the darkness, and then at the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the week before we left, the sound of the wind was hurry, hurry, hurry, and at night even the silent darkness whispered rush, rush, rush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Whoever stands against the rule of law,” the Governor said sternly, “stands with the darkness. Citizens, I ask you to look at your own ranks. Criminals. Beggars.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the darkness something was happening at last. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now Quentin began to breathe hard again, who had been peaceful for a time in the warm bed, breathing hard the heady pure snowbom darkness. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness below was so profound that it seemed to pull the eyesight down into it, and a ghastly dizziness swam over their minds when they looked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all the darkness, there was a tiny boat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The coastline of Rhode Island had long disappeared into darkness. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a small door in the wall; Jonas could see darkness behind the door. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the two rivers in the darkness, one big and one small, and remembered Shay saying that pretty symmetry was silly, because she’d rather have a face with two different sides. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It has lived here in complete darkness, and when he dropped the crystal fire, it didn’t notice. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the little red light attached to its bars began to glow twice as bright, and Golan whipped his head around and searched the darkness behind him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Good night,” the children said, their voices locating them in the darkness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher and soon the shelters were full of restlessness, under the remote stars. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Voices would skirl up in the darkness: one person singing a lullaby, then another person, until everyone was asleep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In my new darkness, Dakari’s voice is barely audible, but I hear the emotion in it, the want. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"But there isn't," he said aloud in the darkness of his bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And something vast, green, and glittering erupted from the patch of darkness Harry’s eyes had been struggling to penetrate; it flew up over the treetops and into the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Those perched on the knitted glave cover released it and it eased back down, swallowing the slice of light and returning the dreamer to darkness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The chilled stone chamber, which felt like some kind of tomb, was plunged into total darkness. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He walked into the cool darkness of the city gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And without another word, he vanished into the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And he was suspended between radiance and darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Although there was little wind, clouds now enveloped the upper mountain, and darkness was fast approaching. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was burnished, his face shaved so close that its darkness had a shine like polished wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon knew what she was going to do, but he still gasped when she leaped into the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The night, the darkness outside, the apart-ment riddled with lamplight shadows seemed more menacing. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning I got up before the sun swallowed the darkness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he sang of his leadership, but, too weak to run, turned wearily back to the tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had wanted Sarai to visit on him such a cataclysm of nightmares as would shatter his mind and leave him spinning through darkness forever. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It triggered the bats, which swooped suddenly and dived in the darkness over his head. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked behind a trash can as the tabby leaped away into the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nathan carefully tapped his toe on the surface, and multiple ripples disrupted the calm surface and went beyond the reaches of the light and kept going in the darkness. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Another man wearing a coat and pajamas like my father lay dead in the middle of the street, a pool of darkness spreading beneath him, glinting in the streetlights. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The third watched the pass, though there was little to see, only a vast bowl of darkness ringed by the snowy shoulders of the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The thought made Bran feel strange, but he was still thinking it when Meera bolted from the fire, back out into the darkness of the tunnels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Desperate, he looked down at the darkness of the town, but there was no one to call to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Outside, I meet the darkness and uncertainty of what will come next. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His mom looked past her at the darkness, the pelting rain, the whipping wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Elsbeth is the grief I would allow myself to feel, if my emotions weren't so covered in darkness. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

With a wave of my hand I fill the room with darkness. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her heart was raw and trembling, and the darkness faded. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The knot of people who had come so far with me melted away into the darkness, in ones and twos, when they saw how it was. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Annabeth and Bob stumbled along in the darkness, the air thick and cold, the ground alternating patches of pointy rocks and pools of muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the darkness, they might run into a cavalry detail at any moment, but it is a chance they have to take. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Colin rolled over in the foreign bed, and for a few slow seconds, as he squinted into the darkness, he felt good. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like you can watch the darkness of the world go by but nothing can see you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ron, an expression of ecstasy on his face, mounted the broom and zoomed off into the gathering darkness while Harry walked around the edge of the field, watching him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When we walked back to the house, darkness had settled in and fireflies sparked around our shoulders. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had this strange sense for hours—that some darkness was closing in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Victor was left alone in the darkness with the cold tiles at his back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what a huge fish this was and he thought of him moving away in the darkness with the tuna held crosswise in his mouth. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He turned his head and stared at the dim whites of her eyes in the darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As his crew watched in horror, he drifted out of sight into the darkness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They slithered soundlessly into the darkness, instantly disappearing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You can imagine Wilbur’s surprise when, out of the darkness, came a small voice he had never heard before. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lanterns bobbed about in the darkness like fireflies as the great Joseph Bell tolled out a message of joy and hope to Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The quick autumn darkness was falling then and he shouldered his scythe and went home. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, which made the darkness darker, and she rested her head on the rolled-up sweater, and she went to sleep. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and then flicked the lighter and swung the flame out over the darkness like an offering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked across the waves and took heart as another surfboat came out of the darkness. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Supposing the king’s small escort was trapped and overcome, but he escaped into the darkness — alone in the wild fields of Rohan with no idea of where he was in all the endless miles? The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A single shower was still on, spraying into the darkness. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Nailer could imagine the dead crew boy’s ghost in the ducts with him, creeping through the darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This had to be done in total darkness, because the glow would be faint. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian turned from the balcony and strode off into the darkness of the hall beyond. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All three of them returned to the tent when darkness fell, and Harry took first watch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In each black space I find, I think I locate someone, but each time, the darkness thickens and that’s all there is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After my friend had disappeared in the darkness, I stood and stared at the empty alley. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small man scuttled out of the darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That way we’d have water and electricity in the End of Days, when everyone else was drinking from puddles and living in darkness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He could lie down and close his eyes until they ached, but it wouldn't be the same, because his skin felt exposed, and he had only to half-open the lids, to see into the darkness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

With enormous self-consciousness I stepped from the house into the darkness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness where I lay I held her cross before my eyes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the town closed itself in against the night, and anyone who moved about in the darkness would be noticeable. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two come forth today to join their lives, so they may face this world’s darkness together. Fill their hearts with fire, my lord, so they may walk your shining path hand in hand forever.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Further on, as Montag moved in darkness, he could see the helicopters falling, falling, like the first flakes of snow in the long winter. to come... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will suffocate you in darkness, slowly, painfully. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the hut, afraid to leave its darkness, the other wax children wept for their melted brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Thick black clouds hung heavily overhead as they fled through the darkness, and Milo, looking back for just a moment, could see the awful shapes coming closer and closer. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little farther along, the road sloped up into darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"The sky cells always break them. The gods can see them there, and there is no darkness to hide in." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And she began to rummage for some clothes in the darkness. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A flash of darkness blinks across the sun as the weapon screams over our heads to smash into the ground far beyond where we huddle. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond him the Wall fell away sharply; beyond him there was only the darkness and the wild. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the midst of this they lit a fire, for there was no hope that darkness and silence would keep their trail from discovery by the hunting packs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but darkness and sheets of rain and the awe of our silence. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I can only feel it. We wait for the darkness to get darker. Then we go sideways.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Right there and then, this happening shot to the top of the pile of moments that defined our family, in darkness and in light. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s eyes adjusted to the darkness and he pulled himself up and crawled to the wall, propping himself against it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now and then the lights of a village emerged from the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness dissolved and Kuttappen appeared on his bed, a glistening genie in the gloom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had many great windows in them, windows without glass, through which you saw nothing but black darkness. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Everything had gone wrong with his beautiful plan, since that horrible light had so unexpectedly appeared in the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They stood there for a moment, waiting for their eyes to adjust, searching the darkness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Kids that grow up in this environment and don’t see other things and don’t know of light beyond this tunnel of darkness—they don’t grow and they get stuck in this type of mentality. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness became watered with light, with silver radiance, and then it was an eerie sight which dawned upon his vision. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch a flash of red hair and brown eyes before pain bursts in my temple and I fall into darkness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And as I sat there watching it all, Cade Hernandez, wearing nothing but a pale blue disposable paper jumpsuit, came up around the driver's side of the truck from somewhere in the darkness behind me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Soon twilight faded into darkness and my head began to spin pleasantly from the beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the other darkness was a tremendous sorrow, a deep sadness that her mother was dead and that the princess could, now, only talk to her in her dreams. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Madame asked, then strode away from the wheelchair, past the two of us and into the darkness, for all I know to occupy the space Miss Emily had been in before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the deep hole below the door Bod could see stars, a darkness filled with glimmering lights. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Far back, almost in darkness, he is poised to strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt beneath was rich and marbled with the white roots of those plants which grow in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat up and looked toward the house but he could see only darkness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

How he followed the beckoning vision into the darkness despite Horatio’s warning that it might tempt him to madness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now he knew, for irony had left: him, that he was searching something, hidden in the darkness, that must be found. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clothed all in black, the woman was like a shadow come striding out of the forest, all violence and darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He barely had time to glance around, however, before there was a muffled clunk from behind them: The door had reappeared, sealing them inside the vault, and they were plunged into total darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On starless nights the great cliff was as black as stone, a darkness towering high above the wide world, but when the moon came out it shimmered pale and icy as a frozen stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hours and seconds passed, the moonlight shone on the wrong wall, there was no moonlight only darkness, and in the center of all darkness Faxe: the Weaver: a woman, a woman dressed in light. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And for myself, I lie in my hammock at night and whisper the names to the darkness: Dahomey, Taghaza, Sankore, Accra, the ancient realm of Songhai. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Off in the darkness a shadowgat screamed in fury, its voice bouncing off the rocks so it seemed as though a dozen other 'cats were giving answer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a stench to Forest now, as if it concealed dead, decaying things in the new thick darkness. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“For woman is yin,” she cried sadly, “the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy wondered if the spirit of Kronos was somewhere nearby, swirling in the darkness, enjoying this moment so much that he wanted it to last forever. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She blended into the darkness so neatly that even her voice was a shadow, like the breath of a nonexistent breeze. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We walk in the darkness, only a few streetlamps lighting the way. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A darkness gathered in his eyes until it filled them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The forest broke open with a great crack, and Arm fell into darkness until— —he was shaken awake by Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To the air he had returned, summoning his steed ere the darkness failed, and now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Peering into the gloom, he saw that the path was edged by a steep drop into rocky darkness, and he rolled the Skraeling’s body over. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him a few minutes to adjust to the darkness, and as his eyes fixed on the red glow of the corners of his cage, he realized just where he was. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Through Cavern Hole he clattered in the darkness, stumbling and tripping over furniture, his heart hammering loudly and legs pumping like twin pistons. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the countless shelves retreating off into the darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This thought dominated my mind so thoroughly that I didn’t notice when the darkness began to lighten. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This was a crossroads where two dead highways came and went in darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness pressed down on Gregor’s eyes until he felt it had physical weight, like water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Light and darkness fly like an arrow,” meaning time passes quickly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He stares out the window into the darkness and the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We observed good field discipline, not talking, keeping to the shadows and joining in with the darkness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So different from the darkness of the Transkei, which seemed to envelop one in a welcome embrace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father seized my wrist and the vial was dashed from my hand into the darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It stared out of the river’s darkness while he waited onshore for a shipment of liquor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

David led her quickly in the darkness, finding footing on the almost invisible trail without hesitation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I run back into the darkness, toward where I can see Matthew hopping around and the form of Manchee dancing twixt his legs and swipes of the machete, barking his little head off. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

As the mouse said this, he shuddered, thinking of Gregory and his broken rope, dying, lost in the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We were afraid for Lieutenant Carroll, we were afraid for ourselves, and our only answer to the fear that called each of our names was to fire blindly into the fearful darkness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she crouched into the Nest, slid the stone door behind her, and sat in darkness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Polly watched Clay disappear into the darkness with a look of satisfaction on his face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is “the goddess with three forms,” Selene in the sky, Artemis on earth, Hecate in the lower world and in the world above when it is wrapped in darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t avoid the darkness flooding his mind. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The voices receded down the pathway, rising again in the darkness beyond. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

With a deep breath, Sarai disengaged a moth from the ledge and spurred it forward, a single smithereen of darkness dispatched into the dim. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The short June darkness slipped by in a few hours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Dad banned me from all school sports teams as punishment, it wasn’t for plunging the whole town into darkness for three days. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, they steered by keeping an eye on the small blue pennant that streamed from the mast in the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I deserve to live out the rest of my days underground, like the naked mole rat that’s absolutely revolting to look at and lives forever in darkness and isolation. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I will not send you into the darkness alone. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As she spoke with Negra, I listened to her sweet, earnest voice in the darkness of the bedroom and I felt happy. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hand and opened his eyelids; gazed blank, and with a straining effort, on the sky, and toward the amphitheatre of trees: one saw that all to him was void darkness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As she leaned against the door in the darkness, she felt her dream, her Afternoon-mare, move inside her like a rib of water rising from the ocean, gathering into a wave. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices extinguished night sounds, and darkness swallowed everything but these two people I loved, the overhead light a dim spotlight that disfigured their features into grimaces. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even in this darkness, I can’t take my eyes off him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A darkness covered Adam’s cheeks and for the first time his eyes seemed to see. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word he shook his reins, the horses turned, and we swept into the darkness of the Pass. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness would say to him “sleep,” and he would run back to his roost, pull his foot into his breast feathers, and close his eyes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited hand in hand on the twenty-fourth storey, by the open door, the door that led into darkness. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in darkness looks like fragments of monsters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cora in her comfortable darkness patted the sturdy wall: It had kept her safe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked my mother through the darkness of the car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When she was done, he shook hfohead, and his hair spread out behind him like a river of darkness, oiled and gleaming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled, the rocks under her feet gave way, and she fell, pinwheeling into the darkness below. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He felt his eyelids growing heavier, the old darkness creeping in from the corners of his vision. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The lights are burning here, but darkness is all around me—in the alley, in the attic, in the basement, in every closet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shined the flashlight into the darkness, and I whispered for Dismay. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These were the total features of his world— the sea sound and the three small lights: darkness, flatness, vastness, wetness: and, in the gulf of night, the gulf-stream of the wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the dungeon, he sat in his nest with the spoon atop his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Someone is moving around in the darkness inside! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just run and jump into the darkness and leave the rest up to the bats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow people clawing out of the darkness, hunched against curtains of wind and water as they dashed for safety. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once she tried the door of one of these places, only to hear a groan from file bench a foot away in the darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She slithered for hundreds of feet in the unimaginable dark, an almost tangible darkness, blacker than night, blacker than closets with closed doors, blacker than closed eyes under bedsheets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They loaded the wagon in cold darkness the next morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, Tally and David reached the white water, and they passed through the greenbelt at the very moment the lights winked off in Uglyville. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He’d barely gotten his hands wrapped in the reins when she was off, tearing a furious path through the darkness as if something wicked was nipping at her heels. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, with a war- whoop—deplorable and ungentlemanly tactics—be fell on the insurgent camp with the blood pounding in the veins of his neck, and Excalibur dancing in his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heimdall, who saw everything approaching Asgard and who missed nothing, woke the gods in the darkness. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I close my laptop and shut off my light, and lie there in the darkness, feeling every heartbeat in my chest, loud and resolute. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The three of them were outside, together in the darkness, but it was surprisingly easy to see. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I leered in the rattling darkness of my tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sank to her knees and picked it up, and the moon went into the darkness of the clouds again. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bat winged in from the darkness and circled the tallow candle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early darkness the halting, hesitant swing of the lantern marked the slow path from fields to pine woods toward the lowlands. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the dim gray light, watching the darkness push between him and the bare room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the chill damp darkness of the tomb his third eye had finally opened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lightning bursts in the sky, giving us a flash of the eerily brilliant gardens, then the darkness sucks it all back in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No, a trident, as Malcolm saw by looking upwards into the darkness, where three points of reflected light shone dimly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The runway lights blinked on and off and the darkness was complete again, absolute; in the blue-blackness Richard felt his head swimming. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A long time passed; when at last I rose, my limbs were stiff and prickling, and darkness had given way to the first grey beginnings of dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark squints—his eyes have already grown used to the darkness—and tries to see the source of the light. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He woke in darkness to a cold empty room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All they could see was darkness and trailing tendrils, and even these were slowly being covered up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost burst through the waterfall in an angry rush, shook droplets from his fur, sniffed at the darkness suspiciously, then lifted a leg against one rocky wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it is dark, the darkness is claustrophobic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a start: Bathilda had moved close to him in those few seconds of darkness, and he had not heard her approach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the straining darkness I felt his body moving with desire, his hands on me were trembling, and I felt my senses opening like a flower to his urgency. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around the chamber, untroubled by the deep darkness, seeing it as the dead see. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The hollows of the waves all were full of darkness while the crests shone yet with a clear ruddy reflection of the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a few steps through the pitch-black darkness the way became lighter. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until the darkness in my blood softens and fades. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He answered through a haze that was alternately too much light and too much darkness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start in, but a darkness blocks out the sun. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The bullet spat out of his hand, red in the darkness. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now he regretted it bitterly as darkness closed in. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did not return that night nor the next and so she plunged into the abyss and descended to the ninth darkness where light has never been. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Other structures loomed in the distance, and beyond it all lingered Lake Michigan’s vast liquid darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to fall into the black waters again, afraid I would lose him in the darkness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Sierra went down the first few steps, the darkness surrounded her completely. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The paper swirled madly for a moment before being sucked out the window into darkness, disappearing before Nailer could even try to grab it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slid hurriedly from the bed, keeping my eye on that part of the darkness from where the light had come as I tried to find my clothes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin, splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he would stay outside in the darkness until his father and Alice went to bed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They echoed the words that had haunted him for four years: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

All she could see in the darkness was Dr. Cable’s mocking smile. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The pungent darkness, pregnant with intimate prickles, sparkling, too, bubbling like honeydew wine, flowed over their skin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doves came to drink in the still pools of the river and their cry was mournful in the darkness of my dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those first two lines sound as if they could only be solved in the darkness. ‘Look for the sword in moonlight streaming forth.’” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Darkness lay behind my back, before the boat, and into darkness I must row. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His breath came forth in jets of fog and disappeared into the darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a brief moment, there was nothing but darkness beyond the window, and Alex’s face was suddenly reflected back to him in the glass. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the darkness in front of them became thicker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Under cover of darkness, the gangs ratcheted up the action. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She knew she should run away as fast as she could, but she had to know what was stalking her in the darkness. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The ridge disappeared in darkness behind them as the terrain flattened out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jack shrugged and nodded in the darkness, as if to say obviously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Before long, though, there was no light left, and they were crawling upwards in total darkness, and Malcolm found himself beginning to get badly frightened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She ducked down and stepped into the darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to close my eyes to block out the sight of my room swaying in the darkness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She took a step back into the darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then I watch her walk out into the darkness, all alone, with the wind blowing hard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He carefully led Zero to the hole, which was hard to find in the darkness. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I lie unmoving for a moment, wide-awake in the darkness. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance, Stanley could see two more flashlights bobbing toward them in the darkness. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I backed deeper into the darkness, but she’d caught my scent and started barking her mangy head off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe in the darkness the guards heard them as terrifying weapons; maybe the thin columns of smoke seemed to be the first sizzlings of a larger explosion. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hope the darkness hides the rising color in my cheeks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now, they had limited their attacks to unarmed ffeedmen, cutting them down in the streets or breaking into their homes under the cover of darkness to murder them in their beds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ground under his left foot, the one closest to the void, crumbled and sent a shower of stone and dirt into the darkness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave me now. Tend to your own preparations. You will have your spectacle. And I...I will work in darkness.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he could never go through this darkness, through this fire and this wrath. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I asked in the darkness, “Do you remember riding a shoulder?” but no answer came. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In the rooftop darkness I couldn't see her good but I could see she was brown-skinned and skinny. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d chased away the wolves and stood guard over me through all the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then all the Captains of the West cried aloud, for their hearts were filled with a new hope in the midst of darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

If he went now, he’d be forced to return in deep darkness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side ahead a darkness began to loom through the mist; and he guessed that they were at last approaching the gap in the hills, the north-gate of the Barrow-downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You have been taught how to duel, Harry Potter?” said Voldemort softly, his red eyes glinting through the darkness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He heard Bessie’s clothes rustling in the darkness and he knew that she was pulling off her coat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the noise of planes filled the darkness everywhere. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness—a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon—and Bone Gap was still. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But a few moments later he rose to his knees and peered at the darkness beyond the bridge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She held the naked, bony king as if he were the child, and nothing between him and the darkness but her white arm. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows shook with the storm outside, and all they showed was darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward tile canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Will tried to pierce the darkness and see them more clearly, but the rain filled his eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He told her story after story, skipping them one by one like stones into the darkness, where they disappeared without a splash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She clung to Tidbit fiercely in the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horizon was still visible, with the dark shape of the hut and its light snow-covered roof standing out, but the complexity of the instruments was hidden in darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I am alone in the dark counting my breaths, is she doing the same in the darkness of her room, wondering...was it all worth it? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There was a path there that led to the dirt road that ran to the Coalwood School, and I figured I could hide in the darkness. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because with a roar, a cloud of burning darkness lifted two giant fists over the cliff top. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Unable to sleep, I sat midst the swarming darkness, starting at every random rustling and crackling that came to ear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After so long in darkness, the light stabbed his eyes; he looked away, covering his face with both hands. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was hard to exchange the security offered by that clean warm kitchen for the darkness and the cold of a December night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This very night—come darkness—the men would move, but in what direction? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the torrential rains slackened off and the darkness lightened, a steady drizzle continued. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I left town, I watched the sun set and darkness descend across the county landscape as it had for centuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Worsley had only one compass left, and he lighted a match to check that they were still headed in the right direction: the island itself was lost in the darkness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Once I lived in darkness, but now I bear the flame,” she whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I recognized the cold laugh that echoed from the darkness below. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Again she heard Hushpuppy growl from the darkness of the woods, quietly but with menace. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the chain again and plunged the room in darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But soon they began to fall down into the darkness, and as the sun turned west a grey shadow crept over their faces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

While the flickering beam of the movie projector slants through the darkness over her head, Tessie admits to herself that she doesn’t want to marry Michael Antoniou. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The holy darkness of church never frightened me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No lights showed, because the windows were blacked out permanently so as not to spoil the darkness for their telescopes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when a shrieking wind pierced the sky, bursting it into darkness, she grew frightened. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Griever Hole would’ve been pitch-black if not for the beam of Teresa’s flashlight cutting through the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He tunneled through the watery darkness, and then the rock above them vanished. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And yet it wasn’t the darkness, or the strange sounds, or the unfamiliar house that was keeping me up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the darkness their feet felt that they were going downhill, and each privately and perversely accused the other of taking, deliberately, a path they had followed together once before in happiness. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But why would he be heading out into darkness? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Percy heard machinery creaking in the darkness, huge gears turning, and water rushing through pipes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That night, I’m in bed unable to sleep, wondering if I’m staring at the darkness or it’s staring at me, when Jude opens the door, crosses the room, and gets in bed next to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Emergency lights have come on in the tunnel as well, but they barely do anything to break the almost tangible darkness of a place so far underground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There’s darkness in my head, right at the back of my skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, a barricade loomed before them, blocking the road that led to a bridge across a river. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The gasps rippled through the crowd as one by one, each person felt the surge of light flow through them and burst out into the darkness. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When she looks for them in her rearview mirror, they have disappeared into the darkness of the guava grove. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Two windows on either side glowed like jaundiced eyes in the darkness. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The streetlights were dim, leaving most of the corners and alleyways shrouded in darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then blackness went to darkness...and the whole universe appeared. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the darkness they caught the white glimmer of foam, where the river flowed over a short fall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each one was perfectly round, two feet in diameter, tiled around the rim with limestone; each one plunged straight into darkness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He bloomed suddenly out of the darkness and now three of them were pursuing the motorbike, all shooting curses after it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was no darkness she could send him to rival what he’d endured already. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The darkness deepened around us, and a star or two came out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Percy pointed at the stormy wall of darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, I realize that I know that dark hair that always gleams, even in relative darkness, and that long nose with a narrow bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A room there revealed two things—one, a prophecy that promised—the return of darkness—two, written on the ceiling, a proclamation — that the Dark Lord had a—that Voldemort had a child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The darkness is a relief; it cloaks my face that blooms half a dozen shades of red. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I wake up in love, and work my skin to darkness under the equatorial sun. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get outside into the darkness so I could hug my dog and smell nothing except his fur. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are so high that they fill up with a lot of darkness. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke gasping, lost in darkness, and saw a vast shadow looming over him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wait, peering at the two stories of darkness below, gathering up the nerve to crawl across. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car moved through the darkness at a rapid speed, turned left at the Sanctified Church of the Crucified Jesus, and took the Biddle Creek Road which followed the river toward the training depot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raising an arm in cheery farewell, he headed out of the front doors into the darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night, late, when it seemed like the house was covered with a heavy damp blanket of darkness, I would hear Grampa moving around downstairs. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I start the car, back out past the water-zombies that lurk around us, then speed headfirst into darkness, nearly forgetting to turn on the headlights. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had frightening dreams in which something dangerous was lurking in the darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The footsteps trailing her hadn’t started up again yet, so she stood still, waiting, searching the darkness for some kind of monstrous shape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was still looking into the darkness when I heard Madame let out a kind of snort, and she came striding past us and on into the dark. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his hiding place Adam could see only a darkness in the dark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To make it worse, something went wrong with the Glow-worm’s lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first building we pass is a tiny stone church, fresh and clean and open, not at all like the darkness Aaron preached in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The snake people, even the guards, turned and slithered into the darkness, leaving only the king. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I began to scream, getting up in the darkness and plunging wildly about, bumping against walls, scattering coal, and in my anger extinguishing my feeble light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked at it, standing on its white linen doth as huge as History, and could almost smell the sweet wax in the darkness of a long time ago. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ringtones cut through the darkness, breaking the sleep of a dozen other people in the square, people who will travel with us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can only remember a place with no dimension, no depth, no heat, no cold, but immeasurable amounts of darkness and solitude. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It had become a blind race into darkness, under a moon drowned in heavy clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, jagged streaks of darkness tore through the air—like lightning, except pure black. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t toss or turn, I just lay flat on my back staring into the darkness, my mind darting from thought to thought, from friend to friend, from brother to mother, from hashtag to hashtag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He felt the river pull him further on its way, into darkness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I breathe too loudly, there’s no telling what the darkness will do to me or to Violet or to anyone I love. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But my dragons are roaring in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and saw, in my own darkness, the letter someone had laid on my chest. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looked up into a deeper darkness, and as she did so her feet knocked against something. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For three days she hovered between the darkness and the light. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the half-light of dawn, I plunge my hand deeper into the darkness inside the wall, searching for honey, dreaming, as always, of golden treasures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debris in the hallway has been swept clean, but the broken lightbulbs haven’t been replaced, so I walk through stretches of darkness, like patches of bruises, on my way to the right cell. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the station, in the freezing darkness lit only by antiaircraft searchlights looking for Luftwaffe planes to shoot down, one young woman was on patrol. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Presently out of the darkness Gollum came crawling on all fours, like an erring dog called to heel. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He lingers a little longer, turns, and trudges off, dissolving into the darkness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, the darkness had disintegrated somewhat, and he saw, some fifteen feet in front of him, a man stirring in his sleep. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the mine, the signal from one miner to another to approach was a roll of the head so the light from his helmet lamp made a circle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trapped by darkness both ahead and behind, I weighed my options. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I felt around in the darkness, but the blade must have slipped down somewhere because I couldn’t find it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step into a yawning cavern of darkness, flashing lights, and a pounding bass that shakes me deep in my chest. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He'd felt safe in the darkness,- when you could not even find your own hand in front of your face, it was easy to believe that no enemies could ever find you either. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Joinville is already banging his way through the crowded inn and out the door, into the fallen darkness. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There, in the bright red inner darkness I saw what happened the night he took me away from the house for the last time.... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Has everyone got a flashlight, by the way?” the doctor asked, and they nodded, more intent upon sleep than the waves of darkness which came after them up the stairs of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s quiet up here,” she says from the darkness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked toward his face, but he was a silhouette, lost in the darkness of the moment. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dust particles the wind carried generated so much static electricity in the air that barbed-wire fences glowed in the midday darkness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The white marble stairs glow through the darkness as we approach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the evening he opened a can of soup and set it in the coals and he ate and watched the darkness come up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Far up above in the darkness it was answered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had done what he did for love and loyalty, yet he had carried her into a place no living man should go and fed her baby to the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he couldn’t see me, though I could see him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cobblestones under their feet, the darkness of a roof above their heads, jangling mechanical music in the background. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, this was how things stood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nhamo talked until darkness fell and an evening wind made the mealies rustle. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As complete darkness descended, a shrew sneaked up through the grass and tapped Matthias’s shoulder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Something rustled next to me, and then the darkness disappeared as whatever was lying on top of me was pulled off. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The silver streak in his closely shaven head glows in the subtle darkness, and the crescent-shaped scar under his right eye looks deeper. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a darkness in my father that I didn’t understand. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the door I am aware of the darkness and the wind as a deliverance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But being outside right now, under the cloak of darkness, offers the very opposite. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They talked for a while as darkness fell on the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Moss squinted, hoping his eyes would adjust to the darkness in the back of the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I now stand in darkness so complete that when I hold my hand in front of my nose, I can’t even see its silhouette. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I would back away into the darkness, furious at my stupid need to spy on them, and I would glide to the next camp of men, and I’d hear the same. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she laughed and walked out, leaving me alone in the darkness. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost feel the cricket, snugged away in his matchbox bed, in the darkness. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And into this darkness slowly swam the other Dr. Meescham's giant squid, moving sadly along, flailing its eight lonely and enormous arms. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The hole surrounds me and I drop into darkness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As the lightning faded into darkness, I descended the fire escape and continued on my way. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He turned out the light, murmuring his brief praise of darkness; we burrowed down into our bags, and within a minute or two he was sliding into sleep as a swimmer slides into dark water. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet this had not been the moment; it was as far back as he could go, but the secret, the turning, the abysmal drop was farther back, in darkness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

To Vetch, watching, the light he bore seemed like a great slow star that moved through the darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

How long she had bled, and sweated, and cried, no language on earth could tell—how long she had crawled through darkness she would never, never know. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And even if I could, how could I kill something that had already been destroyed—chopped to pieces and cast into eternal darkness? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Lincoln spoke, one observer, Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, a free black woman, standing a few steps from the president, remarked that the lamplight made him “stand out boldly in the darkness.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crashed through a curtain at the side of the stage and kept going, into more darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All these small creatures are working — working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter’s grip has damped down the fires of life to mere embers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Just as Joey opened his door, a voice came from the darkness in the lot behind the car. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He eased the top down and fumbled in the darkness for the latch and heard it click loudly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road rose to meet him and the darkness grew dense. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up, one hand still on his scar, the other reaching out in the darkness for his glasses, which were on the bedside table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“So after I joined you on the island, I searched every night under cover of darkness. Even then I was lucky—I only found the entrance the night before I was captured.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped out into darkness and the chill of dawn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They sang all the silly songs they knew until darkness had gathered around them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountaintops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Side by side they stood looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her foreshortened figure rushed away from him; the diminishing square of the roof seemed to be falling through the darkness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Narciso leaned over the concrete railing and shouted down into the darkness. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flurry of wind made the palms talk and the noise seemed very loud now that darkness and silence made it so noticeable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And he opened his mouth, feeling, as he watched his father, the darkness roar behind him, and the very earth beneath him seem to shake; yet he gave to his father their common testimony. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Briony had not even been cast as Arabella’s mother, and now was surely the time to sidle from the room and tumble into facedown darkness on the bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could almost forget about the quiet nights, quiet mornings, quiet, quiet darkness that had settled around our house for the past four months. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They hesitated at the door to the dining room, peering into deeper darkness. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She moved quickly through the darkness, like an insect following a chemical trail. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was cocooned in silent, blissful darkness, with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the Eye of Meshe are all the stars, and the darknesses between the stars: and all are bright. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Waves of darkness rolled out of the chasm, turning Annabeth’s insides to jelly, but she couldn’t show her fear. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Benton Sage, bathed in complete darkness, whimpered and cried like an injured animal left for dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"No more than light makes common cause with darkness." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Said glass is broken and sticking out in jagged shards, but I can see straight inside to the darkness beyond. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The world was awash with fog and darkness and voices. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The star went spinning upward into the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The world is full of darkness, and that will never change. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ged kept watch from dusk till dawn, for in darkness the force that drew or drove him grew stronger yet. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I spat into the dirt and stumbled forward, blindly reaching out to feel my way when the closeness of the trees allowed the darkness to circle in on me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The clock was ticking steadily, the darkness was complete. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the darkness, I suppose it did,” his mother agreed, small bursts of laughter escaping from her lips. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the darkness one sees their forms move like sick storks, like great birds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instrument is alive in my hands; it trembles like a child who is too frightened to name her terror as she proceeds deeper into forest darkness, carrying a lantern of warm oil. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the winter’s long darknesses, during what they called their “maximum nights,” they might make twelve to eighteen bombing runs in a single evening. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The exhausted army of his enemies, who had diced the night before, now spent the hours of darkness sleepless again, standing to arms or in their councils. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

By then, I was lodged in the heart of darkness, so thoroughly bent to the shape of marriage I could hardly see any other way to stand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever we might have been—healers or politicians, jurists or builders—was trained out of us, spun up and away into the funnel of darkness that is Blackcliff. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He tried to wrap his mind around Dill having this much darkness in his bloodline. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They looked at the plain blunt stubborn face and saw nothing but dull Dutch eyes, the great darkness, the silence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she climbed out of the pond, a glimpse of the triangular darkness her knickers were supposed to conceal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As they stepped into the corridor, Filch’s face loomed suddenly out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I walked down the highway into the darkness again, carrying both duffel bags in my left hand and feeding myself the tasteless pineapple fried pie with my right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glowing embers cast faint shadows into the surrounding night, and under the trees, a large set of eyes reflected the light, staring patiently out of the darkness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

That myth had brought her here to this sweltering darkness, balanced between life and death like the last leaf clinging to an autumn branch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the compartment, he could hear Beatrice the Bear standing up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge came closer, step by step, through the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think,” he inquired, as they were dressing up in the darkness, “that it was clever, the way I explained about our bein' here, I mean to drive the animal?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t fair that she couldn’t see Mom’s face in the shadowy darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by darkness, much like when his communication stone was made. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he awoke one morning with the old fear but with a faint remembrance of the darkness behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Juanita pushed herself off the couch and stood looking out the window at the darkness outside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The darkness came, and he sprawled out at the foot of the huge bed, taking up more than half of it with his mangy, flea-bitten form. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They stood peering up the stairs into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No light crew marks gleamed in the darkness, no evidence of any other duct-and-scuttle workers marred the dust and rat droppings of the passage. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was happy and wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was movement in the darkness, scuffling and shuffling, a redistribution of ancient centuries, an evasion of foreshadows. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, I see,” he said, and a weight and a darkness fell on him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat and stared at the light and past it at darkness over the sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The princess shall stay here in the darkness. And you, Mig, will stay with her. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lyddie went to work in darkness and came back to supper in darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On that tragic night of noise, confusion, and darkness in Duk Payuel, I had run one way, and the rest of my family had run another way. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least twice a week Tidbit stole quietly through the darkness to fetch Amari to come to the bedroom of Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the real world—death, darkness, cold, pain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And yet he knew that it would come again—the darkness was full of demons crouching, waiting to worry him with their teeth again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stood up, bracing myself for the encounter, and stepped from the familiar darkness of the hut into the greying night outside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Wait,” he said, and hopped out of his bunk, staring at me through the darkness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

After he exits, Widget presses his nose to the nearest window, watching him as he passes beneath the streetlamps before disappearing into the darkness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jagged rock walls plunged into the darkness as far as Annabeth could see. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She sweeps inside the church and the cool darkness beyond the threshold. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was just enough light through the window to give depth to the darkness, so she saw, in shades of black, the contour of a form. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And inside the small chamber, kneeling before a darkness so black that it seemed poised to devour the world, was Cain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lights and voices spilled from the ballroom window, but a few yards beyond the darkness drew up its barricade and sealed them off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hide,” I whispered to Mouse, and she slipped away and disappeared into the darkness as if she were made of it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I bit my lower lip, emboldened by the darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the sudden, strange darkness that had preceded their arrival? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sound rolled away to the darkness to die among trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother turned and looked into the darkness. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the television screen went black, leaving the room in darkness. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Uccello’s Hunt by Night there is an alarming multiplication of vanishing points, all of which lead into the darkness. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Beto watched the square of light and measured the darkness around it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A lady in a robe comes back into this room, dresses behind a curtain, and greets us as she goes back out into the darkness. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness above, an enormous form appeared—a squid larger than any skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As the cavern of Mithras imploded behind her, she lunged into darkness and found herself falling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Very gently he eased himself in on his side and turned slowly and laced his fingers behind his head and stared at the myriads of tiny colored dots that make up darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the fireworks had died down, and there was only darkness now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, the trees loomed close and menacing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now that he had some point in the darkness to fix his eyes on, he felt less giddy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

From somewhere below in the darkness came the sound of hissing—thousands and thousands of snakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stumbled as she hurried through the darkness of the bamboo tunnel, and emerged onto the reassuring geometry of the paving stones. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I needed no urging from my father to run as fast as my feet and the darkness would permit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I wish one could compose in darkness,” said I. “And play music without others observing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, closer to the sinking ship, I thought I could make out the silhouette of lifeboats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seven could almost imagine hundreds of blinking red eyes staring back at them from the darkness. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were the three canvas sacks closed with copper wire, and inside of them the seven thousand two hundred fourteen pieces of eight, which continued glowing like embers in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They came under cover of darkness as usual, and the moon, so one of Capricorn’s maidservants had told Dustfinger, shone particularly brightly that night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the predawn darkness, the storm churning above Serra strikes with the wrath of a conquering army. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They stand in the darkness amid river sounds, waves lapping, freighters blowing foghorns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she swung the mirror door closed, and left Coraline in darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

After the darkness of the drain, his eyes welcomed the dim light that let him see everything there. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Matty watched in awe, as he always did, how the blind man felt the coming curve and knew even in his darkness where to turn. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He felt them move, every movement causing a trembling, an astonishment, a horror in the heart of darkness where he lay. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They called him Cinderella Man, because he starved through the Depression, like the rest of us, but somehow fought out of the darkness to become the champion. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, it was hard to see for the opposite reason: the shadowy darkness that made it cool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the darkness behind her eyelids, she could see a blue color with a shimmer of silver at the edges, along with something else entirely. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I peer at the darkness beyond the square. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the boudoir and the drawing room, the parlor and the conservatory, the doors and windows were closed, the draperies pulled together, and the darkness back again. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sinking to the floor, he pulled his legs up tight against his body, hoping his eyes would soon adjust to the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I found the path and groped my way in the darkness until I came to the gate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If it caught her she would die a death that was more than death, howling forever alone in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The faces of all the kings that he had served and failed floated before him in the darkness, and the faces of the brothers who had served beside him in the Kingsguard as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They ate a last meal together, watching the darkness fall. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

All round him was darkness and there were no sounds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He made the torches disappear as if the darkness had devoured them, bowed to the speechless Meggie with a smile, before once more spitting fire out into the night’s black face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sky was getting cloudier, and in the darkness the cold seemed more intense. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On our side, we are all propped up on our arms in the darkness, totally still. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a third part only the kingdom of darkness shall hold her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all clashed with the formless beast, eventually casting it back into the darkness below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It is better that we should go now,” said Nathan, rising, “while it is still light. We are not yet used to this city...darkness does not help.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t equipped for passengers—the young women had to ride in the bomb bays in total darkness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I remembered Beau beneath my arm, lying in the darkness of the duffel. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Because in a tragic moment of darkness and despair, I fell into a hole,” I said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And finally, after months and months of darkness, Mom and I would have another flower. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If he still had light bulbs when everyone else in Ember had run out, would he enjoy sitting in his lit room while the rest of the city drowned in darkness? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts into the sky, silently rising higher and higher into the darkness. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jesus bids us shine With a pure, clear light, Like a little candle Burning in the night: In this world is darkness; So let us shine, You in your small comer, And I in mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jack peered into the darkness, then said, “That’s an altar stone, isn’t it?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I knew Timothy was staring at me through the darkness when he said, “She started dis terrible wahr, eh, young bahss?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a happy daze I float upstairs and lie on the red sofa feeling soft as gelatina, playing the scene over and over and over again in the darkness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a lurch the train moved off, its lights glimmering away through the darkness. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He folded his hands under his head and lay staring into the darkness all the rest of that night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of it in the darkness a grove of ghostly trees seemed to have planted itself, a grove that shivered every so often with a tremor like a conscious intention. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly instantly grasped Tidbit’s hand and pulled him into the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my cheeks growing warm and suddenly look away, glad for the coming darkness. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a rickshaw came riding out of the darkness. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

It must grope after him through the days and across the seas of the sunlit world, and could take visible shape only in dream and darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could see Black laughing at him through the darkness, as though somebody had pasted the picture from the album over his eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a great beast with scales of black iron, whose breath was a darkness that smothered men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rescue teams had gone up, through the raging storm, through the darkness and the danger, and they’d found him tucked in a little empty space under a snow ledge. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All around our fire was darkness and wind and the mad, roaring river. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One of his fellows slowed up to save him, but they and the airborne wall were swallowed by darkness as Hagrid leaned low over the handlebars and sped up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the heart of the night, in the darkest dark of the darkness, something stirred from the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought out the flashlight and focused the round spot on a rickety stairway leading upward into a still blacker darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had his head down on the steering wheel, his body shaking, as he sat solitary in the frozen January midnight darkness. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They were called “those who walk in the darkness,” and they were terrible of aspect, with writhing snakes for hair and eyes that wept tears of blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, a small square filled with feint light appeared, hovering in the darkness of the mountainside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He would turn his back on all this darkness, all this hurt, and finally get away from it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The house-elf’s goggling tennis ball eyes were peering at Harry through the darkness. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Still, even in the mounting darkness, I was able to pinpoint where I was and where I needed to go. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They glided away down the corridor with him, and the darkness they trailed behind them swallowed him from sight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This was very tricky, the darkness a wide way for going as well as coming back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a man like any other, with light in him and darkness. It is not for you to judge him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With her brothers and sister near, with the two youngest asleep in the back seat, sitting as they were in a cocoon of darkness, she should feel safe. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered and shined the flashlight into the darkness. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the harnesses seemed to sparkle in the darkness. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maddie kept beaming at various scenes, her eyes shining in the darkness, like she was so utterly proud. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m panting, my heart racing, wiping the tears from my face with my sleeve, terrified out of my mind that David might’ve been caught by whoever was waving around that flashlight in the darkness. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ahead, on the western horizon, clouds lay heaped and brilliant, riven with chasms of darkness, their tops drawn out in the high-altitude winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He came awake, bolt upright, opening his eyes into total darkness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Or soon they would be swallowed up by the darkness? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took the hint and fled, leaving him alone in the darkness, sinking deeper into his feather bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They learned to listen in the darkness, to the sounds of footsteps and loud laughing, to voices and sounds of wine; to know when the mother was returning with a man. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flashlight he was carrying sliced through the darkness. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They waited in the darkness, listening to the footsteps running up and down, beams of light flying along the street from the Death Eaters’ searching wands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When he turned around, the darkness was empty except for Father Cham. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then the women run off into the darkness of the forest, shrieking the same as when they came. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We tiptoe through the darkness, the floorboards creaking loudly beneath our feet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I rotated in darkness because I refused to open my eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the darkness that his arm made he could see ice picks coming down faster than raindrops had when he tried as a little boy to catch them with his tongue. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran into the street, shoelaces dangling, as shells fell all over town and machine gunfire flew in from the darkness. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I screamed, finally breaking through the last of the darkness, my eyes fluttering open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gabe peered through the darkness, trying to see what weapon might appear. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The powers of darkness would requite it, too, my mother’s parting curse would call hell’s furies to punish me, along with the scorn of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness was so complete that Prosper couldn’t even see his own hands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes, and instead of darkness, I see rooting hormones. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The man Jack looked up in the darkness. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

For a long moment Kino looked out into the darkness and then he stepped outside. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lantern flame finally sputtered out, and darkness flooded over me, carrying the sound of rustling and the smell of death. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The claustrophobic tunnels, foul air, suffocating darkness on all sides. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered, trembling all alone in the darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“But I do like being outside in the darkness. At least I did before tonight. Seems like stuff that’s hard for me at school is easier at night. Does that make sense?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Great squid propelling themselves over the floor of the sea in the cold darkness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her lover had been sent for in the darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We manage the darkness as we did in the arena, wrapped in each other’s arms, guarding against dangers that can descend at any moment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounded very small in the darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘Yankee Doodle’ filled the darkness as the eerie shrilling of the hylas fill black swamps in spring. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No escape, said a voice in the darkness below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the same way, Deganawidah prophesied, the Five Nations, each weak on its own, would fall into darkness unless they all banded together. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One in the ocean, one to the darkness beneath the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then we are underground, waiting through the heart-stopping darkness, in the rattling, hurtling subway. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Yossel, Samuel, my mother, and I clung to each other in the darkness, teeth chattering. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Harry had dived for his wand; Snape shot a hex at it and it flew feet away into the darkness and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He appeared no more than a specter, features indistinct, a white face held gently in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Must we go mile after mile in absolute darkness? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While she might be used to darkness, she wasn’t foolish enough to trust it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lay awake in the soggy darkness loud with rain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had set, the glow of twilight was touched with darkness, before he came out. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness seemed to take forever coming on. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She peered into the darkness beneath his hood but saw nothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He rode deeper and he rode through gathering darkness: from gloom to twilight to night to a pitch-black starless dark. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He took off his broad Quaker hat and held it over his stomach, squinting a little to see her through the darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His soul is prob-ably still out there somewhere—floating in the darkness, looking for hope, hoping for forgiveness, and terribly, terribly frightened. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness and rugged terrain of the quarry bottom, Dad’s foot was crushed by a tree limb. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Into the flailing darkness, their haircuts turned inside out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Masks can prowl through darkness like this as easily as if they are part wraith. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The darkness, the whispering wind, the rustling cornstalks—they all tried to change my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Penelope wheeled to the source of the sound and stared into the darkness until her eyes adjusted. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I balled up his sweater and threw it into the darkness as hard as I could. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Despite the growing darkness, I could see my father turn pale. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, adjusting her mittens in the darkness, she took a bearing on the North Star and started off. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on a hospital plane full of UN workers and sick white people, we were transported through a long thrumming darkness, in which we slept the sleep of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped, peered at me through the darkness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I thought in my heart that we drew near to the Sea; for wide was the water in the darkness, and sea-birds innumerable cried on its shores. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

To right and left, jostling into frame, are disorderly ranks of trees, which immediately vanish into consuming darkness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blackness and stench and crushing pain came upon Pippin, and his mind fell away into a great darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Peewee’s voice in the darkness nearly stopped my heart. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the quarrel with Mr. Blount, the midnight visitor, there had been in him a murderous darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His breath was smoking, and the darkness was less near and thick. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By that, by his own dull uncertainty, by the very look of the darkness in the corners of the great room, he knew that the shadow was not far from him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The shark carried me down into the darkness. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His sight begins to shift continuously from shadow to light, darkness replaced by expansive white only to be consumed by darkness again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fleetfoot licked her face as she hid in the darkness of the sheets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The wide pool of burning brand winked out behind the two men, leaving the alley in pitch darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sight of them did nothing to encourage Vervain’s party, who were reluctant to dig and made little headway during the darkness before moonrise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her astonishment, she saw a bright plume standing off in the darkness from the satellite’s surface and soon determined that the plume was in exactly the position of one of the suspected volcanoes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals that used the pool came near and smelled men there and drifted away again into the darkness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon darkness covers the land and still Pa has not returned. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of her vision, the darkness shifts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness there was that flipped-out tribal music, which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a woman’s voice rising up in a language beyond translation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half his face is trodden with darkness, covered, but I can still make out the outlines, the forms. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The voices in the darkness seemed to whisper louder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved in the dark sky or on that dry unreal ground that went on and on into gathering darkness all around the boat as far as eye could see. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At that time of night, the only traffic consisted of trucks filled with bodies and detainees, and police cars that roamed the streets like lost wolves howling in the darkness of the curfew. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness inside was blacker than night itself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mariam detected a shadow on his face, a darkness underlying the coppery light of dusk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as he grabbed the Governor’s wrist, the raw light swirling in the Governor's right hand went out, throwing the bridge into darkness. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This sounded like panting, short and sharp, followed by a growl, low and quiet and threatening, coming out of the darkness. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was gone through the hatch into the darkness below. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes had long-since adjusted to the darkness, and I needed only the frail moonlight to guide me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the moment of darkness, Taran lost his footing as the ground rose steeply on one side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

At seventy-nine, Nels was blind in his left eye and could distinguish only shades of light and darkness through its transient, shadowy pupil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian’s favorite piece, the Moonlight Sonata, floated through the darkness, eerie, distorted, out of tune. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, he stared out the window, like Ma, for about an hour, peering into the darkness, thinking about his girlfriend, Shelly, and his best friend, Aaron. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Harry had not heard the others coming through the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the light from the flare died, the darkness seemed to eat their bodies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim turned round to me, his face pale and ghostly in the darkness of the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence through the darkness of the evening, boots crunching on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The house lights went down; fiery letters stood out solid and as though self-supported in the darkness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He limped through the darkness and smoke, toward the open door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’ll open the door and a rectangle of misty morning light will shine into our house’s musty darkness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept hard and wasn’t sure what awakened him but his eyes came open and he stared into die darkness. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the pressure pounding in his ears as the darkness grew thicker and more oppressive. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had not yet let go of Ged’s shoulder, and he said now, in the True Speech, “In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset time he hypnotised me, and he says that I answered as usual “darkness, lapping water and creaking wood”; so our enemy is still on the river. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as I pulled the board back, darkness closed about me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Again he dreamed, but this time in the dream the shadow was inside his house, beside the door, reaching out to him through the darkness and whispering words he did not understand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the confusion I had about school seemed to leave my mind, like darkness giving way to light. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the grand illusion of the darkness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as the dusk deepened and darkness seeped into the hollows between the trees, Jon's sense of foreboding grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ama looked into the darkness farther back in the cave, her heart beating fast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Theon had captured the castle by stealth, sending his best men to scale the walls and swim the moat under the cover of darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then a streak of darkness shot into the air like black lightning—as if pure night had torn through the daytime. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had to hope that if Volta had never truly surrendered to the darkness, then maybe he might stand a chance as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nearly—nearly could I believe what I saw, sitting there in the darkness by the temple wall. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains were almost always drawn, leaving the house in a tenuous darkness that kept the cruel desert light at bay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, they didn’t see Smith coming, but they knew he was there. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari blew on it gently, and soon a small flame flickered in the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor looked first to the left, then to the right, and finally over his shoulder, but could see nothing in the complete darkness that enveloped him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled through the humid darkness, knocking into trees, blind as a hunted animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The room dark, except for the thin line of yellow light from the door ajar that penetrates the darkness to join both worlds. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The chinks on the window slats changed color, from russet to an intensely dark blue that deepened into impenetrable darkness, until it didn’t matter if my eyes were open or closed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had been ten years since he’d seen the four-legged creature staring back at him in the darkness, though that didn’t make it any less terrifying. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hall was in darkness. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came out of the washroom and shut the door carefully and walked into the darkness and at last stood again on the edge of the empty boulevard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the second night after Farbranch passes like the first, running in darkness, using flashlights when we need ’em, trying not to think. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a wide expanse of rock that sloped back into the darkness on one side of the pool. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness just swiftly rolled away, letting the sky shine its light on us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Yet before the first week was over he’d discovered in himself a preference for darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The darkness is in the lane and we have to light a candle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Guards sealed the doors, leaving us in darkness. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It felt like it was hurtling and jerking its way through a lonely darkness. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The image of myself falling into darkness flashes into my mind, the same image that I now carry with me in my nightmares. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His body blocked the way to the safe darkness of the parking lot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the darkness hummed with murder: the body in the water, the body in the fire, the body on the tree. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was lying on a bed of cardboard, under a kitchen table, peering through a large hole in the blanket at the spooky darkness around me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who is there?” a gruff voice calls from the darkness. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would drink whiskey with tourists, embroider histories flagrant with peril, stride through the darkness with nothing but a tambourine and too many carnations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gunfire echoed in the darkness, running flat across the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kate crawled to the edge of the hole, pushed aside some tendrils and shone her flashlight down into the darkness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rummaging in the darkness within, “It’s a subject,” he said, “that has always had a great interest for me.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness and silence of the church pressed on him, cold as judgment, and the voices crying from the window might have been crying from another world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

No sound, no sight, only darkness and heat and the press of his knuckles on his eyelids. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll talk fast,” I said, peering past the lights into the camera jumble of darkness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glint came into his eyes, and Sam catching the gleam in the darkness thought it far from pleasant. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a white-painted garage door loomed out of the darkness, coming up fast. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I could see the darkness of her nipples. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma was pretty sure he had a screwdriver out to pry off the shackles, but she couldn’t actually see it in the darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then darkness came and the strange animal went back to its cave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Meggie tried to pass the time by counting tunnels, but when the ninth swallowed them up and the darkness went on and on she fell asleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was damp, and covered in shiny, grimy oil, and it stretched out in front of them for dozens of yards before it faded into darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the darkness I heard the steward continually cry out while the other men stumbled about, trying to find where I was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her kindness overwhelms me and opens the darkness in my heart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the maddening darkness he sensed another movement. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When he’d moved back ten feet, he could no longer see the end of the vine way above; it disappeared in the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sofía planted a large hand on his shoulder, and anyone could see how it must be between them in the darkness of their love-making. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tidbit fussed when she awakened him, but he soon rubbed his little eyes bravely and marched with them into the darkness without much complaint. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly as they’d come, they shot her final derisive looks before leaving her in darkness again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course you don’t. A superhero is someone with special powers, and he uses those powers to fight the forces of darkness and evil. Like Alfred T. Slipper, who is also Incandesto.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It climbed on to the shadowy horse and seemed to vanish across the lane into the darkness on the other side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, everyone watched the sky for the first rockets of the night’s display. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They sat silently all day in the darkness of the house, and they could hear the neighbors speaking of them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed the door and let him eat in darkness. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girl takes off into the darkness toward whatever it might be. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A cat moved through the darkness carrying a live mouse it would kill in a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darlene had her head averted, her eyes staring out of the lamplight into the surrounding darkness and looking almost unconcerned, as though they had no part in the drama taking place around them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t; so that when Cammy left suddenly, in June, Ralph was stuck with a veritable stockpile to bury away in the darkness of his black trunk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness increased until it seemed as if we were buried in it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it was darkness itself that had awaited him, the unnamed thing, the being that did not belong in the world, the shadow he had loosed or made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But for the servants, he and Lord Janos were alone in the Small Hall, at a small candlelit table surrounded by darkness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We thought of nothing, but simply sat there in pitch darkness—in her fear, Mrs. van D. had switched off the lamp. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Object entered and stood there in darkness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll fix it,” Bigger said, standing and not daring to open the door of the furnace while she stood there beside him in the red darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jason nodded encouragingly, like this was great news—like he expected Leo to walk up to a towering mass of darkness, shoot a few fireballs, and solve all their problems. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The city’s great buildings and lavish homes awed her, but its smoke and darkness and the ever-present scent of rotting garbage repulsed her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the darkness came, some welcome reinforcements arrived. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Reflecting back the sun deep in the darkness like a flash of knives in a cave. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I waved long after the window filled with darkness and long distance. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And something was coming up out of the darkness, out of the bowels of the earth . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They heard eerie noises in the darkness round them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a darkness in his eyes that felt cold and foreign, like the gaps between the stars. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Lupita,” said a small voice in the darkness, “let me in bed too.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Go back into the darkness where you belong. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And if we are not tired, even in the darkness we can see each other and talk. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left behind a Hole in the Universe through which darkness poured like liquid tar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were halfway toward the castle when Harry, glancing to his left, saw something that made his heart turn over — a pair of eyes, gleaming out of the darkness. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Grief is grief, pain is pain, and music, Beethoven seems to be proclaiming, is the art best placed to confront such darkness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Alec looks nothing like an old man as he sprints past the far edge of the station landing and slips back into the darkness of the train-sized tunnel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Big Ma uttered a faint “Yes, Ma,” mesmerized by the darkness and glow of black-and-white photos of the sorry Ted Kennedy and the drowned blond secretary who could not be saved. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had been reading without any light, in the darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as darkness descended upon Durham, black citizens met once again on the campus of North Carolina College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next night, the town of Columbia gathered in the darkness to see Seabiscuit off on what would be the final cross-country journey of a career that spanned 50,000 railroad miles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran - did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a particular blue, made of light and darkness mingling, clear as glass, smooth as glass, as much like water as sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer down in time to catch a glimpse of the taillights of a pink car disappear into the darkness. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brachy leaned his massive neck forward into the darkness, and then Magdalys heard a splashing and gurgling from the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Total darkness blotted out the sea, and it became cold and damp. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness was no help — I’m sure he could feel the sudden warmth under my skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He found the light switch and the foyer was plunged into darkness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My uncle is out there," Jon Snow said softly, leaning on his spear as he stared off into the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pigeons all clustered up on a ledge clucking away like only pigeons can, but the noise continued even after I opened my eyes in the darkness of night. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel led gently downward, and after the first dozen steps they were in darkness. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was broad day «o but these three men Athena hid in darkness, going before them swiftly from the town. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole that had opened up for Anya snapped shut with a whisper, and she was cast into darkness. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico stared at the tendrils of darkness undulating from the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That meant they were finding something to eat in the darkness, something that was flying into their webs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While waiting for darkness, I looked down on the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even in darkness, I see that his hands are bright red and shaking. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Under cover of darkness, a wagon driver approached the Yard, hauling a load of mattresses for delivery to Swift & Company. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Panic-stricken, Lupita was not about to be left alone in the darkness. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The two policemen took me into a small room that smelled of darkness. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Someone else was in the room, peering through the darkness, trying to see. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned to look in my direction, I could see nothing of his face, only darkness under the cowl of his hood, only shadow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Peradventure,” said a voice in the darkness, “if you could win your mamma and your papa back from the beldam, you could also win free our souls.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was Minya who finally dragged it out of her—dragged them out, her hundred smithereens of darkness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had almost reached the infant when another gunshot exploded in the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She probably could have spent centuries like that, hibernating in total darkness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was black as pitch, without even the pinpricks of stars in the darkness, and the faint illumination from the back side of the sun was dim and cold, more like mist than light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I felt like one who dwelt alone in the farthest Antipodes of the earth, where the sun’s heat and light could not dispel the cold and darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Magdalys tightened her grip on the reins and pulled hard, yanking Missy back into a straight-ahead dash out into the darkness of the bay and away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then I feel the darkness pressing down on me; then terror. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For it was an element It was a dimension, a power of darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first liked the smell of perfume, and how Anna and I would lie in the darkness of our bedroom, in the warmth of our bed. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he moved out from amongst the darkness of the trees into the bloody glade, they were watching him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Slash marks in the sand made a trail downriver...as if something heavy, with multiple legs, had scuttled into the darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Each of the children born to them had a piece of darkness that followed him about wherever he went by daylight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds passed in unbearable slowness as darkness sank in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Were it buried beneath the roots of Mindolluin, still it would burn your mind away, as the darkness grows, and the yet worse things follow that soon shall come upon us.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She felt the darkness clamping down on them, and heard a noise like the ocean in her ears. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness came the members of my chain of command, including my new “friend,” Sergeant Austin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He could feel the presence of the other person beneath him in the darkness, under the mattress. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her neck broke with a loud and horrible snap, and darkness came over Citra like a landslide. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The scuffling weakened, the scraping stopped, a last pathetic squeak—like a miniature champagne cork—was ejected into the darkness. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why tolerate darkness? Everything is here and clear, if only we look carefully.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though there had been no discernible change in the light since the sun and blue sky hadn’t appeared that morning, it still felt like a darkness spread over the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There in the darkness with the sky full of stars I lie on my back and glide through the water with the boat pulling me along. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

His skin turned clammy at the memory, kps going numb as a familiar darkness began to seep into the corners of his vision. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because we’re not pressed into darkness behind Harpy’s or huddled together in the cab of his truck and because even though neither of us has ever said so, we are a secret. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There had been no more than five hours’ darkness and that of a pallid, twilit quality which kept him wakeful and restless. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waved until they were lost in the darkness, then rushed into her house, rolled up her sleeping skins, and loaded her sled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small triangular patch of light illuminates one wall, but darkness paints the rest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, she decides, could get accustomed to this darkness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no flicker this time, just sudden, complete darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She heard something moving in the darkness—beside her or to one side of her, she could not tell. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was looking out through the barred window at the darkness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since darkness was coming on, there seemed no point in wasting more of her time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sighed, hoisted his pack, and prepared to go out into the ever-gathering darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But if Marsha Jean succeeds in stealing the magic globe, then Florence will be flying through darkness and won’t see anything at all, and how will she help people then?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But strangely, the darkness separated me from everything. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog barked somewhere in the darkness, and however often she tossed and turned Meggie couldn't get to sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jinny couldn’t imagine floating in the darkness, in the cold, with only the stars for company. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As before, came the answer: “darkness and the swirling of water.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Petrosian complained that Fischer was still studying the board—in total darkness—and that therefore his clock should be started. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, nothing but rain and darkness—the kind of empty countryside you get way out on the tip of Long Island. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would make his way through the darkness, on foot, silently, to the Annex. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around; the dementors were falling back on both sides of them, melding into the darkness, scattering before the silver creatures. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Helps when you have feathers made of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When he woke, he found Edd Tollett looming over him in the darkness of his bedchamber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the coyotes fleeing back into the darkness, and he saw himself opening the trap to set the rabbit free. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Richard, brother, you are lost in the darkness of the world. You must let the church help you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want me, ” muttered Roscuro as he left the banquet hall, “I will be in the dungeon, in the darkness. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But it gave him a fix on where the man was, and he lunged forward and slashed with his stick at the darkness, connecting with something—arm? hand? shoulder?—and knocking the gun away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite the fears the darkness woke in him, he gave thanks for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She found the wall again and followed, blind and lost, pretending that Nymeria was padding along beside her in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But, like the Invisible Man in H. G. Wells, I discovered that my gift had its price, which took the form of, in my case as in his, a sort of mental darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Watching his legs disappear into the darkness, I stand there, climbing memory. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On the corner a guy played a saxophone, the sound sliding into the darkness and echoing off the bricks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness above Luke began to crumble, like a cavern roof in an earthquake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was gone after a second, and I couldn’t see her again in the darkness. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The night before when everyone had left Egypt in such a hurry they had been too busy getting away from the rain—and the darkness and question mysteriously answered—to remember about Security. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obiora moved through the darkness to the two kerosene lamps that stood at the comer of the room and lit them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, he thought, as he lay back in the darkness. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was, Harry reflected in the darkness, the third time that he had been brought to the hospital wing because of a Quidditch injury. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It took all of his effort, but he said one last thing before the darkness took him for good. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Our own mistakes are the reason we’re behind now,” he tells the players in the stuffy, squalid darkness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull pulled away from Ben, then wheeled back toward the middle of the Lawn and began running into the darkness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hurrying darkness, now gathering great speed, rushed up from the East and swallowed the sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lyra urged the children on and out into the darkness beyond the lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When the moon emerged from behind thunderhead darkness the river gleamed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly there was his youngest son standing before him, sprung out of the darkness of the court, and no one had seen him enter. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the darkness around me and walked into the restaurant. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The moment my back was turned, the odors of swamp mud and decaying leaves drove out the tang of wood smoke, and darkness flowed in like a thunderclap. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even the darkness couldn’t conceal the rage burning in her features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A spray of salt water broke across the boat, dousing the marines there; the phosphorescence boiled up green and luminous against the darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The darkness seemed to be pressing on their eyeballs as they stood, terrified, waiting. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Hazel imagined a chute in the darkness, just to their left. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then the light faded and he was only a hulking darkness in a stained white cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As darkness began to fall at five thirty, the wind shifted once again and quickly blew up into a gale, tearing the tops off the waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“He doesn't think I'm going to drive down a closed road in this darkness, does he?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, out of the darkness, two debil trucks drove by, lighting up the dirt road and catching Teacher Sarah in their headlights. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness,” he had said. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a bedroom, and the other crazy old man upstairs sat at the far end of the room, in the near darkness, bundled up in his coat and hat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He sat in complete darkness, staring into a black void, but spots swam before his eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Through the darkness, we rode our bikes into the wind down Beach Street, passing Front Beach and the old cemetery. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The tide rolled out to reveal Hades’s bronze helm of darkness. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to shield her eyes as sudden sunlight burst into the darkness, but she was yanked out before she could. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now the darkness also had spoken: a word that could not be unsaid. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His mismatched eyes looked somehow brighter in the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They crept into the cave, their eyes adjusting to the darkness, but when they reached the far wall, they realized... Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He just lay there staring at the window without even blinking, breathing the chill heady pure snowgleamed darkness. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came darkness and silence except for the sound of the truck’s motor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he looked much more normal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ah, down!—what was he searching here, all alone in darkness? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was a movement through the darkness to little Willy’s right. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw as they grew, far off, the flames of Muspell and the darkness of Niflheim, but they knew that each place would be death to them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Led by Fawkes, whose wide scarlet wings emitted a soft golden glow in the darkness, they walked all the way back to the mouth of the pipe. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When Florence cried, Gabriel was moving outward in fiery darkness, talking to the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Spurge screamed longer, his cry fading away as he disappeared into the darkness below them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The red ember of his cigarette glowed in the darkness. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Little Rabbit saw the terrible gleam of their terrible eyes through the forest darkness. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It barely penetrated the darkness, so I pointed it at the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, in the darkness, I felt hands grabbing me and heard a monster roar. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He switched off the light from the next room, leaving them in darkness. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was not driving; he was simply sitting and floating along smoothly through darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The little flicker of the fire made the surrounding darkness even deeper, and made every shadow move. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, I imagine I sit under a blanket of stars with Lita; so many scattered in its darkness, if you squinted the entire sky would fill with glitter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even in the darkness I can see the orange glow. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The snow on them glows white in the darkness. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was so used to being in the darkness that I had to squint. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind them lay all the kingdoms of Wisdom, and up ahead a narrow rutted path led toward the mountains and darkness. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above him was sprinkled with so many stars there hardly seemed to be any space left for the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They went in, drew the door very softly behind them, and found themselves in pitch darkness. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A shadowy form that had been crouching silently below in the darkness made a spring and landed right next to Tucker and Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched in darkness that was pitch and bumped into each other blindly, but they did not panic, and they were learning to march without swinging their hands. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Despereaux’s eyes had, by this point, adjusted quite well to the darkness, though it would have been better if they had not, for the things he saw made him shiver and shake. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Marc’s mother has stayed sober the whole time, so she’s behind the wheel as we make our way back in the darkness. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The moon had disappeared long ago, and there was nothing but darkness to be seen through the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For a year, those words had meant the difference between breaking and bending; they had kept her from shattering in the darkness of the mines. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Both of us are on our side, looking at each other in the darkness. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His attention was fixed on the house’s open doors and the darkness beyond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sleep opened beneath him like a well, and he threw himself into it with a will and let the darkness eat him up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The car moved past the lights of a highway rest stop, breaking the darkness a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Gandalf remained for a while staring after him into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went some paces back into the darkness, not daring to move far, or to call in more than a hoarse whisper. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under cover of darkness I sneaked down to the rockery and tossed the head into the glebe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock ticking and searched for it with his eyes; it was at the head of Mary’s bed, its white dial glowing in the blue darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fight and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, forever, in the life and the vision of John’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Darkness behind me, darkness ahead, the gas lamps sputtering in their glass cradles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The yard was lonesome and the wind made quick, scary shadows and a mourning kind of sound in the darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stretched myself out beside him, close to him in the darkness, and as we touched he turned abruptly towards me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to call the others, but before Polly could speak, Amari stepped quietly out of the darkness of the trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swifts roused by the volleys rose and called in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And down came the demons from everywhere, frenzied creatures of darkness, lurching wildly toward their prey. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under the protective cover of darkness, the taxi he and his family were traveling in swerved around a bombed-out Soviet tank and exited the pockmarked highway. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The hall was lit by naphtha lamps, which shone brightly enough on the faces and bodies of the authence, but left the lofty rafters hidden in darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Angel walked silently into the darkness, back to the darkness of their own home. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness devoured it in a way that reminded me of the auditorium where I’d watched Jesse rehearse The Snow Queen freshman year. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were like patches of moving darkness in the rowdy, noisy traffic. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was, standing there, gliding down through the darkness, quite an imposing figure, seeming, all in all, probably close to ten feet tall, with voice to match. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Water trickles over my head as my hand finds hers and I finally let the darkness consume me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was a tumult of many voices far away, cursing and wailing in the darkness, and then silence. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Genie immediately put his face to the floor, peering desperately between the wooden slats into the darkness downstairs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were learning how to kiss now, taking their time in the darkness, savoring the taste of another mouth, the shape of other lips. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voices cried “Happy New Year!” and gloating laughter rolled down from the lulls through the darkness like a witch’s glee. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He began to crawl slowly under the midday sun that illuminated the village one last time before we brought darkness to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At these words a black cloud of possibility bloomed in the children’s minds, a darkness in which scary thoughts flickered like bolts of lightning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was a long road going into darkness and hills and he held to the wheel, now and again reaching into his lunch bucket and taking out a piece of candy. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness was so deep, Otto couldn’t see his hands, even though they were just a few inches away. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he awoke, darkness still hid the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And he was exactly like her, silent, watching, full of evil pride—they would be cast out, one day, into the outer darkness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the high hilltop in the darkness Psyche sat, waiting for she knew not what terror. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged fell, struggling and writhing, while the bright rip in the world's darkness above him widened and stretched. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob was already climbing out, his wide grin visible even through the darkness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then they rose again in the darkness, stronger even than before. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she stepped ashore she found herself in darkness for the rise of the ground, and the trees, cut off the moonlight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be groping about in the darkness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was never anyone there—not on any of those nights and not today—and yet I stopped dead as I looked into the darkness this morning, because I could suddenly see myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and let the darkness grow and spread until it morphs from a feeling of sadness into something worse: a memorv, a flashback. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate toward the people who had tortured Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, I try not to take up too much space or make any noise, because if I do, I may wake up the darkness, and I want the darkness to sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing but darkness on the other side: he couldn’t see where he was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You plunge down into the darkness, down until the space gets narrower and narrower and you’re finally stuck, pinched between two ice walls, far from any rescue. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I cough and splutter, and I am swallowed by darkness. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then, as that pain broke through the darkness to me, other pains came, stronger pains. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t drag a husband and sons into a life where their beauty will blossom and wither in darkness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard him cursing the thorns, the prickles, the darkness, and the wretched riffraff he was having to stumble after in the middle of the night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, sometimes things that look pretty, like secret fire in the darkness, are really pretty ugly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alarm coursed through her as her head spun, sending her into absolute darkness for a moment, but her heartbeat steadied as her eyes adjusted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Long after the rest of the family had gone to bed, I lay staring into the darkness, trying to think and not able to. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over the night side of Mars lovers awoke to listen to their loved ones who lay humming in the darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In long rows they sat, blind eyes staring out into eternal darkness, while great stone direwolves curled round their feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The memory made Arya smile, and after that the darkness held no more terrors for her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had left the light from the trees behind, and the darkness here seemed to be not just the absence of light but a positive presence, something exuded from the vegetation and the moisture. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Express riders were often Sons of Liberty who, under cover of darkness, carried messages written in code or invisible ink. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see her, sitting outside in the darkness, looking in at the light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An image floated out of the darkness into Tree-ear’s mind—that of himself with his eye pressed to the knothole of Kang’s shed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Fifteen feet below, through a haze of dust and darkness, I saw what remained of the trunk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When he came to, Gabriel Witter found himself in complete darkness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I stood in the darkness before the mirror, my hand on the light switch. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me touch my own hair, its thick wavy darkness, bound at the base of my neck for health code reasons. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He fell back under the breaking curve of darkness and sound and smell, his ears roaring. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

No wonder the whites wandered the park in the growing darkness, Cora thought, her forehead pressed into the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The darkness rolled out as it had rolled in, leaving a splitting headache and sore muscles in its wake. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and waited, waited in the darkness while my being filled with a wild, ecstatic fluttering, waited for him to come to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having thus isolated the sinners, the preacher told the deacons to prevail upon those who lived “in darkness to discuss the state of their souls with him.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a car passed and they showed in full relief, their shadows flying like dreams across the sparkle of snow and darkness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange sensation to float in the total darkness, suspended by a cobweb’s light touch, with no pressure anywhere on my body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night long, men moved through the darkness outside their tents like tongueless wraiths with cigarettes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It gives us the long summer evenings, when the darkness never comes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Governor’s words pounded in Pong’s temples: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We plunged into the woods as the rain poured down, the bus in flames behind us, and nothing but darkness ahead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not my dog that exploded out from darkness to chase the wolves away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the lane the noise of hoofs broke out, and gathering to a gallop, went hammering away into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With no further words, the three of them sat as if in a trance, staring into the flames until darkness fell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As the yellow light of summer streamed into the darkness, they saw the straw of the beds scattered all over the floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When we squatted down we could see, alongside Ruth May’s wide blue eyes, yellow blossoms of cucumber and squash peering out from the leafy darkness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red priest spoke of ancient prophecy, a prophecy that foretold the coming of a hero to deliver die world from darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey stood for a minute, letting her eyes grow accustomed to the darkness. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the darkness he hung there, and in the darkness he remained. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The darkness was lifting when I heard the sound of footsteps, wary, soft, less heard than felt as a slight tremor of the ground. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had curled herself up tightly, her arms around her knees, and sat in the complete darkness, blood spangling the silk of her dress like the gloaming stars first bleeding into evening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like Mamá, I chose to walk in darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and ran off into the darkness. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Caddy held me and I could hear us all, and the darkness, and something I could smell. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Stew Cat constantly around—I stumbled over him several times—I worked until I felt it was nearing darkness. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out a minute ago I saw the glow of the volcano as a dull red bloom on the belly of vast clouds overhanging the darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t scared of the darkness, or the mountains, for I was raised in those mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness and the silence he could see bits of light that appeared random on the night grid. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The truck bouncing along through the darkness, the first signs of an antenna through the trees? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The coral had grown over it and it was covered with barnacles, but huge gems—rubies the size of my head and diamonds even bigger—glowed within the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Angel grinned at each other, just a little ashamed of their fears of the darkness. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed his hand, and they ran wildly out of the village into what they hoped was the safety of the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had begun to take leave even of the light, to enter slowly into darkness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness beneath it, something huge stirred, grunted, and then growled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Within Jackson Park the sudden shift from sunlight to darkness drew Burnham outside. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she thought she had become nothing but a voice speaking in the darkness, cajoling, urging, threatening. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness that smelled of bourbon and cigarette butts they climbed onto two stools. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it does nothing to lift the darkness in my blood. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie took off running down a maze of alleys, his feet stumbling in the darkness. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But there were two wolves growling in the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is a pity, then, that there is so much darkness inside him: so much anger, so much envy, so much lust. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They usually return before dark because the Doctorita frets that a gang of bandits will jump out in the darkness and hijack the truck. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No terror, no panic, no darkness, for one thing. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The prison is only lit with a swinging lightbulb as our characters drag their feet into the darkness. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The person put the camera away, walked across the street, and disappeared into the darkness. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he looked out again at the darkness beyond the bridge it was snowing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Quick as a wink, the man flicked the main switch so that all the lights went off and everyone was standing in darkness. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

To stay she would have to explain herself, so she slipped away into the darkness, tiptoeing quickly over the slabs of stone and the scented herbs that grew between them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When darkness fell, Tally and Croy crept out from behind the waterfall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell in the half darkness, but the look on his face could almost have been fear. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked bright and hard, blinding after the darkness of the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the rats or bugs woke her when their curiosity became too much, interrupting her dreams and returning her to the darkness of the platform. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her black jacket is zipped up to her throat, framing her face in darkness. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In Ged's eyes there was a dark vision that overlapped and veiled the grey sea and the grey sky, and the darkness grew, and the veil thickened. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, though the darkness had reached its full and grew no deeper, it weighed heavier on men’s hearts, and a great dread was on them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

What will befall me, now that my long-held secret has been brought from the darkness into the plain, full light of day? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He shook his heavy head in the darkness. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Behind them the river pulsed through the darkness, shimmering like wild silk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floating heart pulsed from dimness to darkness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I shivered, intensely aware of the darkness around us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nhamo’s first chore, as soon as darkness lifted, was to get water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fell, slowly it seemed, into a deep starless darkness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A tongue slipped out from under the darkness and into the light of the moon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z