| 单词 | pitchy |
| 例句 | At first I only heard pitchy whispers stabbing the air around me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z My voice shattered in my throat and came out pitchy and emotional. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z 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 Now, when the navigator walks, I notice that the pitchy ooze that fills the crevices of the ship sticks to his heels. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was pitchy until the last note maybe. "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z According to Psychology Today, nasal, pitchy voices are often caused by an obstructed airflow in the throat or nasal patches that causes an imbalance in sound vibrations during speech. 3 Speech Habits That Are Worse Than Vocal Fry in Job Interviews 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z As for James Durbin, his pitchy yelps couldn’t save him from dim song choices. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Top 5: Competition Triumph or Career Success? 2011-05-05T17:19:22Z His voice raw, pitchy and quivering, Dylan croons his way through elegantly crafted songs with seeming disinterest in flawless takes or perfect pitch. Dylan's 'Shadows in the Night' illuminates American standards 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z And speaking of pitchy, did anyone else notice that his finish to the song was incredibly weak and definitely pitchy? "American Idol" recap: Take a hike, Casey 2010-05-19T13:01:00Z She screamed the song too often, and she had her pitchy moments. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z In the middle of the song, he went flat and pitchy. "American Idol" recap: The dreamboats have landed 2010-02-25T15:26:00Z You might think of high concept as the Darwinian adaptation of ideas in a fierce competition of ideas — sort of survival of the fittest and pitchiest. High-concept presidency: Trump’s election shows how much the line between entertainment, politics has blurred 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Gospel singers walked quietly behind him but they didn’t distract me from a few pitchy notes by Lee. "American Idol" recap: Take a hike, Casey 2010-05-19T13:01:00Z Crystal, unlike Lee, really took it up a notch on Tuesday night, leaving Lee and his pitchy notes far behind. "American Idol" recap: Final performances 2010-05-26T13:27:00Z His voice wasn’t pitchy, he had a suave kind of loose tie kind of relaxed look, starting off on the stool and eventually standing, kicking it and swaggering around. "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z To sustain a fever pitch, he’s sometimes a little pitchy. Review | The new Evan of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ proves to be a worthy standard-bearer 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Randy Jackson heard pitchy moments but praised the strong ending. 'American Idol': Did Haley's fall help her? 2011-05-19T02:29:07Z Was Ellen trying to crack a joke with that pitchy piano line? "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z We were still in the heyday of “American Idol,” and being called “pitchy” was something to avoid at any cost. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Presumably she knows she’s a little pitchy and is allowed to hold a mike only because of the influence of her husband. Lonnae O’Neal: The good thing about Candy Carson’s anthem moment 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z On the night I saw it they had trouble staying with the band at times and could be a little pitchy, as they say on “American Idol.” | 'Tomorrow Morning': The Night They Called It a Day 2011-04-03T21:10:14Z I was a horrible actor, but nevertheless, I put myself on tape reading lines and singing a rousingly pitchy rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” How I friended Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert: Zach Anner on comedy and cerebral palsy (“The sexiest of the palsies”) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Anything to drown out the sound of Casey's pitchy and consistently off key notes from beginning to end. "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z Ellen: "I thought the piano was a little pitchy, but I do think it was great, beautiful vocals and not country at all." "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z The boys ruined the mood, especially towards the end of the song with a horribly high-pitched pitchy note. "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z Lee was pitchy, out of tune, off key and any other way you can say "ouch." "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z It wasn’t just that her vocals on Like A Prayer were pitchy. Madonna was excruciating: what we learned from Eurovision 2019 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z She said she did think he was "a little pitchy" but added "aren't all rockers pitchy?" Bowersox and DeWyze, Do That To Me One More Time! 2010-05-12T14:31:00Z Randy Jackson, in particular, never tires of telling contestants, or as he constantly calls them, “dawg,” that they are “pitchy” or that they are “the bomb.” Television: Ellen DeGeneres, ?American Idol? and the Power of Niceness 2010-04-04T02:34:00Z She goes right back to singing in that pitchy child’s voice. Faye Swetlik’s ‘sunshine’ kept alive by family, memory rocks 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z At one point he channels an “American Idol” judge and pronounces Elsa’s singing “a little pitchy.” Review: An evolved iceman? Kristoff steps up in ‘Frozen 2’ 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z So if someone said, "The gig was ok, but you were a bit pitchy and the drummer's timing was off" would you respect them more? Blossoms on the essence of cool 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Randy Jackson would say there were a lot of pitchy dawgs in the house. N.C. basketball fans sing national anthem after high school’s PA system fails 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Adele gave an uncharacteristically pitchy performance at last year's Grammys - after a rogue microphone fell on her piano strings and knocked everything out of tune. Grammys 2017: All you need to know - BBC News 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Notwithstanding the technical mishaps of her recent Grammy performance where she described her singing as "pitchy", there is no doubt she is blessed with a remarkable voice. Adele: The full story - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Despite the mishap and what she called her own “pitchy” sound, it wasn’t the quality of the performance that hit her as hard as the reaction to it. Adele 'cried pretty much all day' after Grammys audio glitch 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z But to put it bluntly, her version of "All I Ask" was, in "American Idol" parlance, "pitchy." Grammys surprises: Adele's bum notes, Kendrick Lamar's memorable performance and Nashville's snubs 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Sure, there’s a discordant note now and then, someone gets aggressively pitchy, but even those sounds help the rest of us harmonize. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Importance of Athlete Activists 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The look on his face suggested that she was his problem to solve, an instrument in need of careful tuning — powerful, fragile, valuable, pitchy. Eugenie Bouchard Could Be Tennis’s Next Big Shot 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But this promises interaction at scale, American Idol-level engagement for content just slightly more important than whether someone was pitchy or not. Presidential Debates Get 'American Idol' Treatment: What That Means For The Future 2012-10-03T13:06:46Z Thanks to the pitchy darkness of that wintry night, Huzaifah glided among the enemies' tents. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z A strong pitchy smell suddenly wafted over the ship. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The night was pitchy dark, and the storm remained at its worst. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The night was pitchy dark; several streams of drift ice came driving down upon the ship. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Dr. Smith is a past master in description, as will be seen by this word-picture of a fire in a vast pitchy and resinous mass of combustible material. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The pitchy darkness gave way to yellow obscurity, still more impenetrable to the eye. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Such a mingling of night and day as the sunlight lighting the pitchy blackness of the landscape, as far as the eye can reach, is indescribably grotesque and desolate. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z After these had been carried out, the firemen returned again and again from the pitchy blackness of the smoke-filled galleries, dragging bodies, burned sometimes beyond recognition. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The English pushed forward amid the pitchy darkness, quite ignorant of their way, and soon became involved in a maze of outhouses and enclosures. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z No. 4 is the shape used in the soft and pitchy woods of southern and tropical countries. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z One variety has stouter legs, stouter bodies, head and neck comparatively short and broad, and body round; the wool grows most on the face and legs; the grease in the wool is almost pitchy. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Steamers coming into port reported that they had passed through a pitchy darkness in the straits. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Sometimes the color is rendered very dark by the pitchy blood contained in the veins. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z At first he fancied he was blind, for everything was pitchy black about him. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z However, he did not fire; and so there we were in the pitchy darkness of the room, both armed, and neither knowing where the other stood. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The night was pitchy dark, and at nine o'clock the boat was missed from alongside. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Fire leaped like lightning along the pine walls, twisting in an instant into a column of pitchy smoke tufted with tongues of flame. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z But the instinct of Pat would find out a cellar-door on the pitchiest night. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z It was pitchy dark by the time we had completed our camping arrangements, and W—— announced that the coffee was boiling over. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Then, with a suddenness that startled him, he came to his senses and found himself sitting at the side of the road, in the damp grass, while all around was pitchy blackness. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z As if it was not enough to be cut off from all the brilliant spectacle, pent in pitchy gloom and robbed of all his "fat" and his painfully rehearsed "second edition" touches. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The sheeting rain burst with a torrent's fury—a great stab of lightning almost upon the very camp; then pitchy black and thunder's roll again. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The next moment we were torn from our moorings, and went swinging down the creek in pitchy darkness. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z In the pitchy darkness there fell on their horror-struck ears the sound of waves breaking on the rocks. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z Now he stood in dense, impenetrable pitchy blackness—and feeling very damp and chill at that. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The interior of the shop was pitchy dark. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z The alarm clock had shrilled its exulting and age-long summons in the pitchy dark. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z This stranger began asking questions about the soldiers’ camp, where the camp-fires blazed brilliantly in the pitchy darkness. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z When this copal was melted, the kettle was set, with its boiling-hot pitchy contents, in that little entry. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z It was eleven o'clock when I left the house, and at the first transition from their presence the night seemed of pitchy darkness. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z At the corner just beyond the Eldorado Hotel somebody stationed beside a flaring pitchy torch was declaiming in a loud voice, before a large tent. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z It was pitchy dark, and the trees closed us round. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Realizing the result of his crime, he was soon lost in the pitchy darkness of the night, headed towards the southwest, afoot. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z The night was pitchy dark, and not even a solitary star could be discerned; but as she had no light in her chamber, the gloom outside was less profound than that within. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z If not provided with candles or lamps, the lovers of this recreation are careful to select a store of pitchy knots, whose brilliant combustion relieves them from all the inconvenience of darkness. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z All was pitchy black, but a baby wailing above told us there must be somebody within. Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z G. rode those terrible twenty-five miles, and the same distance back to the first station; there he had a meal and a short rest, and then rode home in the night, which was pitchy dark. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z The night was pitchy dark, the rain was pitiless; half our horses were gone, many of the men were scattered over the cheerless prairie far behind. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z It lulled; but the intensity of the pitchy darkness still continued. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z In the chimneys pitchy sticks were shooting up bright flames. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The night would not be a very long one, but it would be pitchy dark. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z Burke bared his arms, plunged them into the bucket, drew out the black, pitchy solid and threw it overboard. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z On the night of the 28th we were encamped in pitchy darkness in a narrow valley at the head-waters of the North Fork of the Mina Pusa. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z We tried shying stones at your windows, but it was too pitchy dark to locate them. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Over the fence we went, and on into the pitchy darkness beyond. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z Dragging up the skiff on the first bar on which it grounded in the now pitchy darkness, I inflated my sleeping-pocket, crawled into it and went to sleep. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z In the pitchy blackness the task took him longer than he had anticipated, but at last he found the lantern and the matches which lay beside it. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z After a while pitchy kegs were rolled into the hall and opened. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z A pitchy darkness surrounded us, so that I could not see the horses, which were but a few yards off. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The pitchy darkness increased, I gave the mare her head, and let the reins hang loosely on her neck. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Never have I seen anything so stupendously awful—too awful even to be grand; for all nature was of one pitchy hue, only illumined at brief intervals by the white blinding lightning. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z The night was so pitchy dark, on the beach under the shadow of the trees, that he could hardly see with certainty a yard ahead of him. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z "Night! night!" he groaned: he felt as if he were wandering aimlessly in pitchy darkness, while every pulsation of lost time might involve the sacrifice of a human life. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z If you take the back track on a trail of pitchy smoke, it is sure to lead you to a squalid threshold with its starved heap of pine roots and half-decayed wood. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The night was pitchy dark, and so cold that the guards built a great fire on the border of a strip of woodland, and allowed us to help in gathering withered sticks to replenish it. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The rayless gloom was without any relief whatever; it was the enclosing sable of death itself; a pitchy oblivion that lay upon him like a solid weight, a thing obscene and hopeless. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z It inflames easily, burns with a pitchy smoke and bituminous smell, and throws out a great heat. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z He was detained eight hours, during which time the snow had fallen incessantly, and it was pitchy dark. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z The hole in which I lay was so pitchy dark that, even when I realised where I was, which took some little time, I fumbled fruitlessly about for several minutes before I finally extricated myself. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z These and other such thoughts coursed through his mind as he hung there in the pitchy blackness—and indeed it was well for him that such was the case. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Then pitchy blackness and the long heavy roll of the storm king’s artillery. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z As they entered its gloomy aisles, the fog merged into a pitchy blackness that demanded all the lumberman's woodcraft to negotiate. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Night fell, and the little bay, hemmed in by the surrounding cliffs, was enveloped in pitchy darkness. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z At his word a gong boomed below, and the lithe vessel sprang forward like an unleashed greyhound, the pitchy fumes from her funnel filling the clean air with the stench of burning petroleum. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Campian’s fate hung in the balance there in the pitchy gloom. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z It is frightful; there, in the pitchy darkness. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z She did not know how to preserve her beauty, and depilitated herself with pitchy resin just as one pulls up weeds from a courtyard of white marble. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z The two men went to the Abbey into the pitchy darkness, and walked to the third tree near the bare spot. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z I had made a small torch of a pitchy sort of wood, that burns faintly for a while, and this I bound to my head with my handkerchief. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z A prudent deity in pitchy darkness The issue of futurity conceals, And smiles when man beyond the right of mortals, His fear about the time to come reveals. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z During the fall he has retained consciousness, and now, as he opens his eyes in the pitchy darkness, it seems that he can hear the sound of running water. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z In pitchy, red billows of flame the dried log walls were roaring upward into the night. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Huge columns of pitchy smoke rose up from the glowing mass. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z In the pitchy darkness fear and horror fell upon the assembly. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z The night was one of pitchy darkness; and as they neared the glare thrown upon the river from the large fires, the gunboats could be plainly seen. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z Entombed in that pitchy darkness, with these frightful creatures crawling around him—upon him. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The flames at the far end of the stockade rose higher and fiercer as they began to get their hold on the pitchy 168 wood. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z We did not succeed, however, and before we had proceeded half the distance, pitchy darkness overtook us. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z The moon was high in the sky, and the trees and bushes cast pitchy shadows upon the bluish light lying upon the grass and gravel paths. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z When he awoke, he was in pitchy darkness. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Made from human thigh bone, the large hole at one end plugged with a black, pitchy substance. American Antiquities Auction Catalogue, January 8, 1898 2011-02-23T03:00:33.300Z The night was pitchy dark when I crawled to Mimosa Drift, and sat down by the riverside to recover my scattered senses. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illuming the air far and wide. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z No one who has not been lost in the pitchy dark in No Man's Land can understand how easy it is to arrive at that condition, and the intense feeling of helplessness it produces. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z In the pitchy blackness they could see nothing. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Now even that was gone, leaving a desert enveloped in pitchy darkness, while the wind roared about the ears of the travellers and pounded their bodies as with cudgels and the sand pelted their skins. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z The clouds fell lower and lower, and shed no more reflected light; a pitchy darkness followed. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The moon had just gone down, and the morning was pitchy dark, and, as usual, piercingly cold. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z This is just the pitchy midnight black of an unrelenting, unending night. The Fiver 2010-08-09T14:27:00Z As we descended the Mer de Glace the valley in front of us was filled with a cloud of pitchy darkness. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. "Is the creature not down in that dreadful basin of pitchy waters?" muttered he. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Asphalt is a compact, glossy, brittle, black or brown mineral, which breaks with a polished fracture, melts easily with a strong pitchy odour when heated, and when pure burns without leaving any ashes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli All was then silent for a moment, and then were heard for several seconds, in the midst of the pitchy darkness, sounds of a fierce struggle. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Never shall I forget those terrible moments as we stood in pitchy darkness, relieved only by the faint, uncanny, phosphorescent light of the sea-water. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne Owing to its compactness and to its being shaded by a covering of d�bris from the direct heat of the sun, the ice underneath the moraines of glaciers appears sometimes of a pitchy blackness. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Thus they stumbled on through the pitchy dark, found a wall, followed it, turned a corner, brought up against another wall and so stood waiting with ears on the stretch. Our Admirable Betty A Romance It was pitchy dark, with the flicker of fires on the deck of the Bow making trembly red splotches in the smoke and steam. Sea-Hounds Now it was pitchy dark, both within and without, but love has sharpened senses and eyes which no night has ever yet been black enough to befool. A Romance in Transit Despite the pitchy darkness of the night that prevented anything being seen without, the eyes of all sought to penetrate the obscurity. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess In spite of the pitchy blackness of the night, it was certain that the German machine-guns and rifles would take heavy toll before their trenches were reached. The Irish at the Front Two clouds of pitchy darkness swept down upon us from different directions, enveloping all the surrounding hills and meeting over Chattanooga. An Artilleryman's Diary The Judge offered very slight resistance as Doctor Medjora urged him forward, and even in the pitchy darkness of the laboratory he made no effort to free himself. A Modern Wizard "But it's all pitchy black, and the lights are so confusing." From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel It was not a pleasant thing to have to creep through that open door with the probability of being brained by a powerful maniac waiting for them in the pitchy darkness beyond. Haviland's Chum This man, with the cool, dauntless brain—the hardened frame so splendidly proportioned, lay there in the pitchy blackness at the mercy of the skulking, cowardly scavengers of those grim mountain solitudes. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Standing in the pitchy blackness and on the brink of that awful pit, no one dared move so much as a foot. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Lying there in the pitchy darkness Lamont realised that his position was exciting, to put it mildly. In the Whirl of the Rising Chester took a couple of steps to his right, for there was a faint sound in the pitchy darkness which he interpreted to mean the advance of an enemy. Blind Policy The sound of its approaching rush in the pitchy blackness was almost upon them—then it passed. Haviland's Chum The night grew pitchy black between those grim, frowning walls of cliff. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Eustace closing the slide of the lantern for a moment, they were in black, pitchy darkness. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War None through the pitchy darkness Might look upon his face, But they felt the storm that shook him As he lean'd upon that mace. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 But Gizzard, too, had observed the pitchy darkness ahead. Sube Cane In front, where the rides of the wood intersected each other, the moonlight streamed through in a broad patch, rendering blacker still the pitchy blackness beneath the trees beyond. Haviland's Chum At midnight Dumouriez left the Château of Grandpré, on horseback, and went to the camp in the pitchy darkness of the night. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 Black rise the clouds of smoke, and by the gales Borne down, in streams hang hov'ring o'er the vales; And slowly floating round the mountain's head Their pitchy mantle o'er the landscape spread. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The pitchy scent of the sun-stricken firs recalled the memory of home: he saw himself again seated on the harrow with Nat, in the field in the Violet Valley, singing and rejoicing. Black Forest Village Stories Hyrst stopped him still in the pitchy shadow under what might have been a kneeling woman sixty feet high. The Legion of Lazarus The rock wall ended high above the water; beneath it lay a gaping chasm of pitchy darkness. Isle of the Undead The canvas, strong and pitchy, resisted; but the swelling and the tension increased; it was not certain that it would not give way, and at any moment the swelling might become a rent. Toilers of the Sea By day, her hills in pitchy clouds inroll'd, By night, like rolling waves, the sheets of fire Blaze o'er the seas, and high to heav'n aspire. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Rough Boreas in Æolian prison laid, And those dry blasts which gathered clouds invade, Outflies the South with dropping wings; who shrouds His terrible aspect in pitchy clouds. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History As a pitchy blackness rendered everything invisible, a lantern was carried at the head of the column, to prevent those behind from being lost. The Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. June and July, 1863 The sight was enchanting, in comparison with prowling about in the pitchy darkness of the night, not knowing the moment we might be saluted with a pound ball from one of their long ginjalls. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment It was as yet pitchy dark, but the scene of commotion almost equaled the ball, for there were one thousand horses to be fed. Francezka The best varieties are black and pitchy in lustre, or even bright and scarcely to be distinguished from true coals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" There was a frantic scrambling for clothing, which it was impossible for them to find in the pitchy darkness. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign “That is true; but it’s no longer safe to walk in this pitchy darkness.” The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon I thought that every eye was upon me, and I did not regret the pitchy darkness of the night, which hid my blushing countenance. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment That spot of fire, hanging aloft there in the pitchy darkness like a great meteor, had in it somewhat of portentous awe to us. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Bright, glance or pitch coal is another brilliant variety, brittle, and breaking into regular fragments of a black colour and pitchy lustre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Night suddenly came, with pitchy darkness, but Si steadily forged onward. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign A year ago last spring the mother pine put forth the beginnings of those pine cones that now dangle brown and pitchy, or drop to the ground, useless except as kindlings for my campfire. Old Plymouth Trails From the pitchy shelter of the shingle roof, Squaw Charley looked out. The Plow-Woman The windows were hung with rags, the alcoves were pitchy dark, a mute silence reigned throughout the house. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature House after house burst into flame, and pitchy clouds of vapor obscured everything. Peggy Owen and Liberty All around a hundred torches flared and flamed, and from them vast clouds of pitchy smoke rolled aloft into the vaulted ceiling. A Castle in Spain A Novel Our reckoning was wrong; we just escaped going ashore in the pitchy darkness; and, to mend all, the ship took fire! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Here and there a herring glittered bright in the meshes, or went darting away through the pitchy darkness, visible for a moment by its own light. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. And, as usual, you left the mark of your pitchy fingers. The Fate of Felix Brand His curls were gummed and tangled; his fingers were inky, and suspiciously pitchy. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Then down in continual showers and pitchy darkness, and to Cusack-Smith’s; not returned. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) At my evident ignorance of his meaning, the pitchy eyes once more flashed malevolently at me, until, helpless as I saw my opponent to be, I trembled as I watched him. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 I lay there, comatose and semi-conscious in the pitchy darkness, and wondered what had happened. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 In the pitchy darkness, the messenger encounters him, and running full tilt against him, knocks the bunch of keys into the mud. Skipper Worse At forty thousand feet he was above the storm clouds, whose pitchy, vapor-drenched blackness effectively blanked out all sign of the earth. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 For the moment he could see nothing in the pitchy blackness. Slaves of Mercury Then it was gone as swiftly as it had come, leaving a pitchy blackness behind it. The Law-Breakers It was a pitchy night, and we determined to wait outside till daylight, standing across to Pico under steam for shelter from the wind and sea. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' All in vain Turns the tired eye in search of form; no star Pierces the pitchy veil; no ruddy blaze, From dwellings lighted by the cheerful hearth, 161Tinges the flowering summits of the grass. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition It was not an utter, pitchy blackness that pervaded the water, but rather a peculiar, dark blueness. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 There was no lightening in any direction, and the blinding flashes amidst the din of thunder only helped to further intensify the pitchy vault. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills They were still running up and down the wharves, stamping barefoot on the pitchy floorings, doing the last errands of the captains, putting the hard-tack aboard, and a final cask of wine! Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Cappen took the girl's hand and followed her into a pitchy, reeking dark. The Valor of Cappen Varra On the one side Bert saw familiar objects in Tom's laboratory, on the other side the white cliff and the pitchy sea of the Bardek realm. Wanderer of Infinity It quickly settled over the whole scene, pervading it with a pitchy, clinging darkness that obscured each man from his neighbor. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 He nodded oath withal By his own Stygian brother's stream, the pitchy waters' fall, And blazing banks, and with his nod shook all Olympus' land. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse Oh, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow. Mountain Interval Sounds there were as of things flapping from the walls, as of wood falling; but all was in the pitchiest darkness—a very “darkness which might be felt.” The First Violin A Novel Far in a vale there lies a cave forlorn, Which Phœbus never enters eve or morn, The misty clouds inhale the pitchy ground, And twilight lingers all the vale around. Practical Education, Volume II Here also is produced naphtha, an article of a pitchy and glutinous character, resembling bitumen: on which if ever so small a bird perches, it finds its flight impeded and speedily dies. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Jeremy and his father had to grope in the pitchy blackness for the coins that Bob held out to them. The Black Buccaneer Then, straight before us, shining in the centre of the pitchy darkness, there was a bright blue star suddenly apparent. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Melissa, uttering a shriek of terror, shrunk into the bed, and in an instant the room was involved in pitchy darkness. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The darkness grew into profound night, only broken by the blue and sulphurous flashes which darted from the pitchy cloud. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Any sudden movement among them might frighten the game; and if it bounded off into the forest, or even turned its head, it could no longer be seen in the pitchy darkness that surrounded them. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Behind its tapestry hangings a secret door, suspected only by a crack in the wainscotting, opened beneath his prying fingers, and revealed a spiral staircase leading downward into pitchy darkness. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The insides of the whale were all wet, and it was all pitchy dark in there. The Doers In an instant the room was involved in pitchy darkness; a loud crash was heard, then a scampering about the floor, and a noise as if several doors shut 236 to, with violence. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father It was a night of bright moonlight that made for pitchy shadows under wall or tree. Love of Brothers Once in the road, he glanced back at the house, but the whole place seemed to be in pitchy darkness. The Slave of Silence Now, in the pitchy darkness of the drenching rain, as he crouched at the foot of the wall he could hear the hoarse murmur of many voices behind it, as it seemed to him. With Haig on the Somme The night was pitchy dark, and nothing could Ezekiel see but the ghostly figure gliding along ahead of him, all lit by a weird phosphorescent light. Cornwall's Wonderland The ancient Spirit of Chaos swings her pitchy cressets, and sinks down the starless deep on her tall catafalque of Death. The Masque of the Elements They were beyond the circle of bright light cast by the fire, and a few yards would take them into darkness, which was pitchy to anyone coming from the vicinity of the fire. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Brighter and larger grew the fire; every detail on the fated craft stood sharply out against the pitchy background. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good A 'pitchy darkness' envelopes the life and work of Ignatius, till it is 'at length illumined by a vivid but transient flash of light.' The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The night was pitchy dark, and all went well as they passed the fort and the little town of Smithville. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 The principle is, however, a good one, though his machinery is only applicable to earthy or pitchy, and not to very fibrous peat. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Naught but a span of space where one may roam: Night's pitchy corner; a hard crust of bread; Cot for your feeble limbs, pillow your head— What's the use? The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse Up from the pitchy sea southwest of Brimstone shot a line of fire, curving into an arc and bursting aloft in a shower of many-colored balls. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good I groped, and one by one—the tower was pitchy dark—I counted the lither barrels of twenty serpentines laid out on pease-straw. Puck of Pook’s Hill The night was pitchy dark, and the crews on the vessels could hardly see the craft by which they were surrounded. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 “Mother, you know it is always dark through there, even in broad daylight, and after dark it is pitchy.” The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar The bravest swimmer would be absolutely helpless in the grasp of such a terrific current, and in a night of pitchy darkness 40 would be unable to make the first intelligent effort to save himself. The Telegraph Messenger Boy The Straight Road to Success Only savage cold, and pitchy darkness, scarcely lighted by the resinous torches that were being carried hither and thither, casting on the snow long, blood-coloured traces. Tartarin On The Alps The ashes—the pitchy stream—sprinkled the altars, covered the pavement, and half concealed the quivering corpses of the priests! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The night was pitchy dark, and heavy clouds were driven across the sky by a strong, damp wind, that told of a coming storm. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 I salute thee, but with wounded nerves, Wishing thy golden splendour pitchy darkness.” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher "A beaver doesn't like the smelly, pitchy wood, so they never cut them unless they have to clear a roadway from an aspen grove to the stream of water." Polly and Eleanor It was too dark for him to shoot me—pitchy dark there, under the trees. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest At noonday a pitchy darkness, of a dismal and sinister character, completely obscured the light of the sun, continuing for about ten minutes at a time, and being frequently repeated during the afternoon. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) The two vessels slowly swung apart; and, after a final broadside from the "Brooklyn," the "Manassas" drifted away in the pitchy darkness to seek for new adversaries. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 It was dark, thick, pitchy; it sent up hot steams to the edge: it was one of the secrets of nature, laid bare when the ocean was taken away. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 In hot blasts and boiling water; And a shade of pitchy smoke, Neither cool nor generous! A Source Book for Ancient Church History Now the way was of pitchy blackness, then an opening would give us a glimpse of the stars. The Golden Magnet Still others yield oils or pitchy substances on distillation; these are known as "oleo-resins." Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Jack and Adair strained their eyes eagerly after him as he disappeared in the pitchy darkness among the roaring waters. The Three Midshipmen He wondered at the pitchy blackness of the night, unusual for the time of the year. The Rider in Khaki A Novel In that pitchy blackness he had only his fingers to guide him. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 It was pitchy dark now, and matters were carried out with a rapidity that was startling. The Golden Magnet It was pitchy dark, but he heard the roar of distant and new streams, and the sliding avalanches of sodden snow. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness "The flames have reached the cable tier," was exclaimed by some individuals, and the strong pitchy smell that pervaded the deck confirmed the truth of the exclamation. The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend Half-a-dozen such brooks and bridges had to be passed, till at length, emerging from the pitchy shade upon an open space, he saw two twinkling lights, which told him that the village was ahead. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The two lifeboats got together before they reached the edge of the Goodwins, and held such consultation as was possible in the pitchy darkness and in the roar of the sea. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands The range of this portrait painter's palette is from pitchiest black to most dazzling white, as of snow smitten by sunlight. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The pitchy blackness of the night was illuminated redly and vividly by the flashes of the guns. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess The body is slightly yellowish, and variously streaked and banded with pitchy black. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Nearly the whole interior of the ship was thus divided into cells, and when candles and lanterns were removed the places were in pitchy darkness. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Roberts and Adams, and in all five of the lifeboatmen, sprang on board of her as she rolled in the pitchy night. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands The fire had burned forward to the stump of the main-mast, and, fed by the large quantities of black pitchy ropes—the shrouds, stays, and ratlines—was sending up strong bursts of smoky flame. Ran Away to Sea When she finally stole up to her own room through the pitchy halls she was glad to see that there was no light in the governess' room and that all was darkness and silence within. The Governess But the other room was also in pitchy blackness. Men of Affairs It was dark outside—a thick, pitchy darkness, with only a grey glare close to the ground from the snow. A Girl of the Klondike In the fury of the blizzard the Arctic night was reduced to a pitchy blackness worse than the sightlessness of the blind. The Heart of Unaga Now, as my companion had turned himself, he lay with his head towards the raft, and, as I thought, in a half-crouching attitude—though the pitchy darkness prevented me from being sure of this. Ran Away to Sea All to the rear of the canoe was of a pitchy darkness, in consequence of the screen of birch-bark. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire I think I can find the mouth of the gully, even in this pitchy blackness. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros The sky above them arched in pitchy blackness, but the starlight was so keen and brilliant that it lighted up the white silence round them. A Girl of the Klondike Francisco lighted a pitchy torch and stuck it upright in the bows. Gold Seekers of '49 Barrier after barrier was passed, and for many an hour in the midst of the howling storm and pitchy darkness a fierce battle raged. The Lily of Leyden There is no one to tend it with the pitchy pine-knots. The Death Shot A Story Retold We had pitchy darkness to favour our advance; but we knew that the moon would soon rise, and enable us to make the necessary observations. Old Jack The night was pitchy dark, the wind blew harder than ever, and the foam-topped seas raged round the hapless brig. The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy It was pitchy dark under the overhanging trees, and only a faint gleam from a large bow window showed her the length of the garden-path that they would have to traverse. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Then, without waiting for a remark from me, she took me with her into the pitchy darkness. Debts of Honor To avoid having smoke in the room, and on account of the pitchy droppings, the candle-wood was usually burned in a corner of the fireplace, on a flat stone. Home Life in Colonial Days It was done, and away we flew, careering over the fast-rising seas through the pitchy darkness of night! Old Jack The many lights relieved the pitchy darkness of the cave enough to show the high ledges that ran still further back into the gloom. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow He saw a little strip of wan twilight through a crack in the window, but it soon faded and pitchy darkness filled the narrow valley. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War By his brother's infernal streams, by the banks of the pitchy black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his nod. The Aeneid of Virgil That pitchy kind of substance was tar, which was one of the most valuable trade products of the colonists. Home Life in Colonial Days In the meantime Idomeneus ceased not his mighty valour; but always burned either to cover some of the Trojans with pitchy night, 429 or himself to fall with a crash, repelling destruction from the Greeks. The Iliad of Homer (1873) I was alone in the pitchy blackness with my burden, and the house was five hundred yards away. The Upper Berth Of course there was light, somewhere, if she could only find it; but who ever found the light, lying on a hard sofa, in pitchy darkness? Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book He ended; and by his brother's Stygian streams, by the banks of the pitchy black-boiling chasm he nodded confirmation, and shook all Olympus with his nod. The Aeneid of Virgil In a second we were in pitch darkness and our leader called out "Choke damp—back for your lives," and in the pitchy darkness back we struggled. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile In the pitchy blackness an impatient command lost at this juncture its temper. The Long Roll The night was pitchy dark, and when, just as they stepped out, a sheet of flame belched forth from the vessels, it seemed to be almost against their faces. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Instead of pagan attempts at a likeness of God, we have next painted, with equal descriptive accuracy, poetic force, and theological truth, the pitchy blackness which hides Him. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Ere long the night became pitchy dark; but although we could see nothing, yet ever and anon the whistling wings of ducks became audible, as they passed in flocks overhead. Hudson Bay The night was pitchy dark, and the fearful shocks with which they struck the gigantic ripples on the banks, sent despair to the hearts of all, except the crew of the boat. The Lifeboat Rain fell in such floods that it was scarcely possible to keep the fires burning, and the night was so pitchy dark that the hand could scarcely be seen when held close to the eyes. Hunting the Lions They hung thus in the midst of pitchy darkness after their blazing tar-barrels had been extinguished. Battles with the Sea As yet the breeze was moderate, and the sea not very high, but the night was pitchy dark, and a hot oppressive atmosphere boded no improvement in the weather. The Red Eric A deluge of rain descended, and an instant every spark of the conflagration was extinguished, and the pitchy darkness of the night was unbroken by even a solitary star. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa I put my hand fearfully upon it—it was a sort of unctuous, pitchy cinder. Jacob Faithful The thunder roared, the lightning flashed from the clouds, and the night became pitchy dark. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor The blacks paddled on bravely through the pitchy darkness. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa Wherever we were, there we must remain until daylight; for were we to attempt moving, in the pitchy darkness which hung around, we might fall off into the water, or lose ourselves in the forest. In the Rocky Mountains Never was I out in a more pitchy night. Hurricane Hurry It was pitchy dark when we awoke, but the noise from among the Indian lodges was louder than ever. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins The night was pitchy dark, I could see no one. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor Silence there certainly was, but instead of the blue above and the blue below, there was pitchy darkness. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Through the pitchy darkness the vessel rushed on. Ben Hadden or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It It was no easy matter to find the animals, as it was only when the lightning flashed forth that we could distinguish them, so pitchy dark was the night. With Axe and Rifle He must have been struck on the head; for no cry had been heard, and, owing to the pitchy darkness, no one had seen him. The Three Admirals It seemed to me an age that I was thus clinging on in pitchy darkness, but I believe the catastrophe really occurred only a short time before daylight. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor But all was dark; and instead of a sandy floor and the legs of the tables and chairs, his hand touched only some hard pitchy planks. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures It was pitchy dark; indeed, the intense darkness, the strong gale, and the heavy surf on shore were enough to appal any man entering the lifeboat. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign During the time the heat was intense, and the place was visited by a dust-storm, which in a few minutes produced an actual pitchy darkness. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley The night was of pitchy darkness when the flotilla of French boats started on their perilous expedition. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War We sprang into the shrouds, and climbed up, up, up into the pitchy darkness. In the Eastern Seas Sometimes it was almost brighter than day, then pitchy dark. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures And O’Carroll was as good as his word; hour after hour he sat there, as we rushed on up and down the watery hills through the pitchy darkness—it was indeed a long, long night. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat Then the professor’s welcome voice arose out of the pitchy darkness. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor I say, though, what an experience this is, here in the pitchy darkness. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze “Yes,” And Punch felt for and took his companion’s hand, trying to see his face in the pitchy darkness. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War Watch was set that night as usual, but it came on so pitchy dark that nothing could be made out distinctly a yard away. The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains It was dark enough outside, but in the boat-house everything seemed to be of pitchy blackness, and try how he would he could find no way of unfastening the chain. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Sentry Poague frankly admitted that he had heard horses' hoofs out on the Mesa and voices in the captain's tent, but saw nobody crossing his post and couldn't be expected to in the pitchy darkness. A Wounded Name Just then the dancing flame died out, and it was in the pitchy darkness that Dallas felt for his cousin’s face. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze But all was pitchy black, and though his eyes wandered in search of the bright star-like lamp of the Nautilus, it was not to be seen. The Black Bar Then, hand in hand and step by step, we went on through the pitchy darkness straight for the light on our right. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer Then all was pitchy blackness again, and the silence by contrast was awful. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle The night was pitchy dark, although there was a young moon, for the sky was covered with dark, low-lying clouds. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru Here he paused for a moment, glancing upward to the sky, which he found to be obscured by a dense canopy of heavy black cloud, portending rain, which sufficiently accounted for the pitchy darkness. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Night had now fallen and pitchy darkness had taken possession of the forest. Fighting in France With a ripping sound the tent was torn from the grasp of the four scouts, and went sailing off into the pitchy darkness. The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain All answered to their names out of the pitchy blackness. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle He was up in the saddle with the last word, and gone, galloping into the pitchy black smoke that swirled like a turgid flood from burning Ascalon across the square. Trail's End When the sky is clear it never gets pitchy dark, in the open; and there was a quarter-moon shining, too. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies In the pitchy darkness it was impossible to see where the jackal went, but the camels could be heard shrieking with fear, and thus it was only too clear where the brute was. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People I found myself in a valley of pitchy darkness, and as it seemed to me, limitless. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Then all was pitchy darkness, and through it came the sound of voices. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle While the fire was blazing before me I could see the boy distinctly, but when I got past the fire it was pitchy dark, and I lost all trace of the drowning youth. The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe The night was pitchy dark, and we stumbled along, falling into gutters here, and nearly sticking in the mud there, until midnight, when we resolved to seek shelter from the storm. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure It was pitchy dark when he reached the cabin. A Son of the Hills With the instinctive cry to heaven for help, of human-kind world over, I looked above; but there was only a great pitchy dome with glowing clouds rolling and heaving and tossing and blackening the firmament. Lords of the North Then all was pitchy blackness again, and the thunderous roar died slowly away, as the thunder mutters into silence in a storm. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle Alone each child sat in pitchy darkness, unable to stir for more than a few paces, unable to sleep for fear of punishment with the strap in case of neglect, and often surrounded with vermin. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies For the next two hours it was a hand-to-hand fight in pitchy darkness. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Harry bent to the ground, and finding a pitchy pine knot, lighted it. The Cross-Cut The light seemed to pierce straight down onto the vessel, and she stood, pale and white, while all around her a pitchy blackness seemed to prevail. A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia The sky was pitchy black; it thundered and lightened, and the sea ran in black waves, mountains high, crested with white foam. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 The load was ablaze, and those dry, pitchy witches' brooms flamed up tremendously. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's It was a pitchy, sleety night, the river roaring with the loose ice of spring flood, the forests noisy with the boisterous March wind. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom And they were huge; all ranged together, and stretching away to a great distance, with the pitchy water, still as if frozen, covering their feet. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The sky grew dark, the emerald waves pitchy black, only they were crested with foam that blew in my face. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag He awoke with a racking headache in pitchy darkness; and with the twilight of returning consciousness there grew in him an awful fear that he had been coffined and buried alive. The Mayor of Troy Standing there by the curtained window, her eyes fixed on the pitchy darkness, a new era in her existence seemed to dawn. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Vavasor reached the little inn about nine in the evening on a night that was pitchy dark, and in a wind which made it necessary for him to hold his hat on to his head. Can You Forgive Her? On the ledge above the shop you see another pitchy building. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. But the way was longer than the pilots reckoned, the night was pitchy dark, without moon or stars, the tide was on the ebb, and at last the boats were aground. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. The moon was in her last quarter, and would not rise till close upon dawn; and the night pitchy dark around us, with a very few stars. Wandering Heath It was a warmer night than usual, and, after the moon dropped, pitchy dark. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story And people read them, and fill themselves with wind and filthy fumes, and wrap themselves in smoky, pitchy clouds, and go through the world in a spiritual darkness thick enough to be felt. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story I knew a candle was burning in the room but I could not see it, all was so pitchy dark. Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers The holm-oak rings amain, Smit with the axe, the pitchy pine falls low, Sharp wedges cleave the beechen core in twain, The mountain ash comes rolling to the plain. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Returning to the hearth she poked the embers, placed on them another stick of pitchy wood, and fanned it with her breath until the flames burst forth, lively and bright. The Delight Makers In glancing back over my shoulder I noticed in the pitchy blackness the flash of a rifle simultaneously with the report, and it seemed to come from a haystack about 200 yards to our right. S.O.S. Stand to! Through the pitchy darkness fell a sleet of rain and snow that washed out the footsteps of the fugitives. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark It was risky enough—that threading of the pathless woods through the pitchy dark; but he who pauses to measure the risk at each tread is ill fitted to pioneer wild lands. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The rainbow dissolved; the waterfall deluged the valley; the mountains were covered with waves; the skies grew pitchy dark; I saw nothing more. Tales of the Chesapeake Even in the pitchy gloom I could feel that Tom's step was buoyant. Dead Man's Rock Nearer and nearer came the sound, and the garrison, who could see nothing in the pitchy darkness, fired wherever they could hear a sound. With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent About half-past seven the pitchy obscurity round us turned a ghastly grey, and we knew that the sun had risen. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle But Uncanoola led us straight through the pitchy darkness; and when we were come upon the three soldiers we found them all asleep around the handful of camp-fire. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Slowly he stooped his head to hear if Venning slept, for he dreaded what would happen if the boy awoke in the pitchy darkness and heard that demoniac cry. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa If our lanterns went out, we should be in pitchy darkness. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The wheel of Ixion might whirl, and the pitchy depths blaze with the fires of indignation, but all this did not dry the tears of the nymph, nor soothe her bitterness of woe. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays It was pitchy dark: not a star, nor one glimpse of the pale moon could be distinguished. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 Now you are to remember the sky was overcast and the night was pitchy dark, and how the old borderer could read a sign of any sort was far beyond my comprehension. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Lady Mabel looked nauseated at the idea, and the colonel swallowed a glass of Madeira, to wash away the pitchy flavor. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters No sound: the stairs stretched up before her into pitchy darkness. Hetty Wesley The night was moonless and pitchy black, but Grenfell set out at once to look for dogs. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell It is potable the April after it is made, is best that year, and after ten years begins to have a pitchy taste, resembling it to Malaga. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 The room they entered seemed at first to be pitchy black, but gradually the secretary perceived a faint reddish glow against the farther end, and thought he saw figures moving silently to and fro. Four Weird Tales We lined up in the pitchy darkness at five paces apart, but no sooner had we reached this than a whispered order passed from man to man: "Another pace, lads, just another pace." Private Peat The light was dim enough, but it showed plainly in the pitchy darkness of the passage, and seemed to be considerably above them. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot The darkness being profound, the dazzling splendor of the stars only gave a deeper blackness to the pitchy sky. All Around the Moon Thrice, swift Achilles sprang to the assault Impetuous, thrice the pitchy cloud he smote, And at his fourth assault, godlike in act,550 And terrible in utterance, thus exclaim'd. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper All in vain Turns the tired eye in search of form; no star Pierces the pitchy veil; no ruddy blaze, From dwellings lighted by the cheerful hearth, Tinges the flowering summits of the grass. Poems They took their shoes off, and walking upon the hard sand which formed the ground, entered the pitchy darkness. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment His troops were exhausted; the night of pitchy blackness, and the miry roads, cut to pieces by the heavy artillery and baggage wagons, were horrible. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power But it was inconceivably brighter than either, and was furthermore strangely relieved by the pitchy blackness both of sky and Moon. All Around the Moon The men threw away their pistols and powder, and rushed in a body towards the windows, from whence smoke was streaming of a pitchy darkness and suffocating odor. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia The night was pitchy black and a drizzling rain was falling, but Eli had often travelled on as dark nights, and he was determined. Troop One of the Labrador The night, however, was so pitchy dark, that even although well acquainted as he was with the road, he found some difficulty in avoiding the drains and ditches that enclosed it. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two The dingy Salons of yore, with their pitchy canvases, had made way for a Salon full of sunshine, gay as spring itself. His Masterpiece The enormous pit, in fact, seems to be a soundless sea of pitchy black, the bottom of which the Sun's rays have never reached. All Around the Moon Sometimes it was by the flashes of the thunder-storm lighting up a pitchy night, and giving glimpses of her careering across Tappan Zee or the wide waste of Haverstraw Bay. Initial Studies in American Letters It was still pitchy dark outside when Andy, at eight o'clock in the morning, lurched into the kitchen at the Post house, and fell sprawling upon the floor. Troop One of the Labrador A sheer perpendicular board wall, some twelve or fifteen feet high, shrouded in pitchy darkness and apparently within earshot of a police spy, did not daunt Bessy Bell. The Day of the Beast Bid the pitchy clouds advance, Bid the forked lightnings glance, Bid the angry thunder growl, Bid the wild wind fiercely howl! The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Or was it rushing resistlessly into infinity on the wings of that pitchy night? All Around the Moon Never lay hot bread on a pine table, as it will sweat, and absorb the pitchy odor and taste; but tilt, so that air may pass around it freely. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes A raw wind, driving snow, pitchy darkness, slush and everything objectionable underfoot. The Hosts of the Air It was pitchy dark, and the roar of the sea, under the terrific sweep of the tempest, was truly awful. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Meanwhile, in the pitchy night the fire died down and the woodpile grew small. Famous Modern Ghost Stories In less than a second the illumination had come to an end, involving everything in the Moon's direction once more in pitchy darkness. All Around the Moon Robert watched until long after the rain had been pouring in sheets, and it was pitchy dark in the cave. The Rulers of the Lakes A Story of George and Champlain Cold, wet air struck his face, and darkness, almost pitchy, enveloped the cabin. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky It was that pitchy darkness without, which, for some hours, when the moon is late in lending her reflected beams, comes over the earth's surface. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood The light, trim craft of the pursuers edged upon them, and the shadow of an angry struggle in the pitchy, reeking night gloomed over them. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 The surface is all dazzling glare, or pitchy gloom. All Around the Moon The car is engulfed in pitchy darkness, save for a glimmer of diffused light that comes from the cars ahead. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin In this pitchy darkness not even a Shawnee could see us ten feet away, but he could hear us. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky A pine, its pitchy trunk ablaze, crashed down across the fire-trail and caught in the fork of a tree beyond. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West But though Blanchard went down like a child before the attack, he disappeared rather than fell; and in the pitchy night it seemed as though some amiable deity had caught up the vanquished into air. Children of the Mist On one side, glaring dazzling light; on the other, cavernous pitchy darkness. All Around the Moon Ferrier saw an object like a mass of seaweed, but the night was so pitchy that no outline could be made out. A Dream of the North Sea In less than twenty minutes from the time we first saw the clouds the afternoon had changed from brilliant sunshine to pitchy darkness. Argentina from a British Point of View Then down a flight of stairs, through pitchy darkness, guided by two of the men, a whispered word of advice now and then from the Yankee saving him from perilous stumbles. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Few readers of these lines will forget the verses with which Envy plays prologue to "Poetaster; or, his Arraignment": Light, I salute thee, but with wounded nerves, Wishing thy golden splendor pitchy darkness. The Age of Shakespeare Right in their very path, a blazing ball of fire had suddenly risen up before their eyes, the pitchy darkness all round it rendering its glare still more blinding. All Around the Moon There was a spring of this valuable pitchy substance near the village; and the roofs of all the houses in Los Angelos were similarly covered. Christopher Carson The poet also perceives that, whenever a sinner's head emerges from the pitchy waves, demons thrust him down again by means of long forks. The Book of the Epic To the right lay the frozen ocean, its white expanse cut here and there by a pool of salt water pitchy black by contrast with the ice. Triple Spies Give me a sign That, in the pitchy night, Comes to my pillow an immortal Spouse, And not a fiend, hiding with happy boughs Of palm and asphodel The pits of hell!’ The Unknown Eros To add to our difficulties, the sky clouded over and pitchy blackness settled down. War in the Garden of Eden But o'er the Amoritish camp the cloud Bursts in its fury! on the race abhorred The parting heavens, as from a pitchy shroud. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 I could see no prospect of a rift in the curtain of pitchy cloud which hung over me. Fifteen Years in Hell A deluge of rain descended, and in an instant every spark of the conflagration was extinguished, and the pitchy darkness of the night was unbroken by even a solitary star. The Mission The fire had leaped the cleared path and was greedily eating in all directions through the short, pitchy growth of tarweed. The Rules of the Game It was pitchy dark in this tunnel, and there was no space in which to attempt to kindle a light. In the Days of Chivalry He "sallied forth alone, in quest of sensation," and got it in the muttering of thunder, and the flashing of lightning over the "pitchy darkness of the seven mountains." James Fenimore Cooper The thunder was muttering among the "seven mountains," and occasionally a flash of lightning illumined the pitchy darkness of the night. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland The flying dragons, carried on pitchy clouds, wept down their tears; the four kings and their associates, moved by pity, forgot their works of charity. Sacred Books of the East The room was filled with their pitchy, wholesome perfume, with the dancing light of their blaze and with the warmth made grateful by that mountain height. The Air Trust The motion ceased altogether with a grinding sensation and a jerk, and out of the darkness of a wider space, pitchy dark to their eyes, came the sound of a familiar voice. In the Days of Chivalry The darkness was perfectly pitchy, and we had to feel for every step to be sure that it was a solid place and not the slippery edge that went straight down into the sea. Us and the Bottleman Black; elytra slightly pitchy; head and thorax thickly punctured; thorax with a cruciform impression on the disk; elytra with three keels meeting before they reach the apex, the intermediate spaces and the apex irregularly punctate. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Wind, fire, and steam, with dust combined, produced a pitchy darkness, rendering all invisible. Sacred Books of the East The plan being formed, they waited a week before a night, pitchy black, arrived. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign Others, black and dirty, with the pitchy plaster of hasty reparation and a consumptive smokestack on an enormous hull, plowed along, coughing smoke, spitting ashes, panting with the jangle of old iron. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel They had been implored to go in the boats, but the night was dark, the sea was rough and pitchy, and she was sure the boat would upset before they had gone a hundred yards. The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories The clouds were of pitchy darkness, and we could see nothing beyond the road, except the lights of peasant-cottages trembling through the gloom. Views a-foot Meanwhile, in the pitchy night the fire died down and the wood pile grew small. The Willows She lighted a short piece of pitchy wood, intending to locate the heavy camp axe. The Sky Line of Spruce Her yielding timbers sever, Her pitchy seams are rent; When Heaven, all-bounteous ever, Its boundless mercy sent! Old Ballads It's pitchy dark," she exclaimed, "and yet almost five o'clock. The Garies and Their Friends I can cure the itchy pitchy, Palsy, and the gout; Pains within or pains without; A broken leg or a broken arm, Or a broken limb of any sort. A Cotswold Village On a sudden the day became overcast, and ere long it grew pitchy dark. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire For eight days the pitchy darkness lasted; but on the ninth day it lifted. Philippine Folk-Tales I remember you watched me, Billy, as I took my cane in my hand; I vaulted over the sandbags into the pitchy night, Into the pitted valley that served us as No Man's Land. Ballads of a Bohemian Surrounded at one moment by intolerable light, and at the next by pitchy darkness, they still pressed forward on their journey. Martin Chuzzlewit The Asian sage, Whose name above I mention, Lived in the pitchy Pagan age, A life without pretension. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Ten thousand other piles were kindled at the same moment, and in an instant the pitchy darkness was converted into light as bright as that of noonday. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Foaming with anger, Achmet Zek called his followers to horse, and though the night was pitchy black they set out to scour the adjoining forest for their quarry. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar And you couldn't so properly have said he wore a hat, as that he was covered in a-top, like an old building, with something pitchy. David Copperfield When we came to the edge of a silvery hill we dropped off into pitchy blackness. Arizona Nights I say felt, for I could see nothing, the darkness being absolutely pitchy, as it often is just before the dawn. Allan Quatermain Raffles was coming to me, and the other could not even see to fire; that was all I knew in the pitchy interval of invisible rain before the next crash and the next flash. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illumining the air far and wide. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society The night was quite dark, but not what is called pitchy dark. Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience Then down in continual showers and pitchy darkness, and to Cusack-Smith's; not re- returned. Vailima Letters The hot sun brought out the fragrance of the pitchy bark, and the shade was pleasant as we climbed the hill. The Country of the Pointed Firs In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway. The War of the Worlds Upon the ground the land was pitchy black. Old Indian Legends But it is only where fires never run that truly ancient forests of pitchy coniferous trees may exist. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon I was racing parallel with the cattle, with my head down on the horse's neck, letting him pick his way through the scrub in the pitchy darkness. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. The Aeneid English The staircase was a winding one and led down into pitchy darkness. The Phantom of the Opera Above that round yellow ray, faces were unrecognizable in the pitchy blackness. Captivating Mary Carstairs He took some lengths of pitchy pine sticks and arranged them for torches. Way of the Lawless I pushed back the tent flaps and peered out into the pitchy darkness and pouring rain. The Long Labrador Trail All the houses were in pitchy darkness, as they naturally would be at one o'clock in the morning, so it was only with great difficulty that Steel could make out a number here and there. The Crimson Blind The moon would rise before long, and they must make the most of the pitchy darkness that still prevailed. Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy It was pitchy dark, but he beheld the outline of a human figure, sitting by his side. The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis Altogether, what with its pitchy colour, its mean windows, its factory-like plainness and height, Ferth Place had no doubt a cheerless and repellent air, which was increased by its immediate surroundings. Sir George Tressady — Volume I Here he had again to turn to the right, across soft meadow-land, and in the pitchy night had to feel along the wall until he found the garden door. Casanova's Homecoming Nor did the pitchy darkness yield a jot to his now accustomed eyes. The Crimson Blind It was pitchy dark, with a most villainous storm of rain and wind. The Forest Lovers Since the lightning had ceased it was pitchy dark inside. The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis In the pitchy darkness I heard the plaster off the walls falling on The floor. Gaspar Ruiz The fierce volcano, from his burning entrails That belches molten stone and globes of fire, Involved in pitchy clouds of smoke and stench, Mars the adjacent fields for some leagues round, And there it stops. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Three electric switches were snapped off almost simultaneously outside, and the dining-room was plunged into pitchy darkness. The Crimson Blind The night was dark, but not pitchy; a dull phosphoric gleam overspread the under surface of the sky. The Story of Kennett On immerging into the wood, for such it was, extending the whole downward way to Tintern, we all suddenly found ourselves deprived of sight; obscurity aggravated almost into pitchy darkness! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey I salute thee, but with wounded nerves, Wishing thy golden splendor pitchy darkness. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Comes a pitchy cloud Creeping o'er the faded moon; Comes a pitchy cloud— See the grey dawn creep! Poems of Paul Verlaine In the black night-watches as by day—toward morning, as at evening—they stood, clutching the musket, peering out into the pitchy darkness; or lay, dozing around the grim cannon, in the embrasures. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee Make haste, and atone, by the future brightness of thy epistolary emanations, for the pitchy cloud that overspreads these sick man's dreams. Jane Talbot The colonel had miscalculated the temperature by one log—only one, he declared, but that had proved a pitchy one, and the chimney bellowed with flame. The Desert and the Sown You can picture the scene; pitchy darkness all round except where now and again gleams of light fell on the sounding sea below and made dimly visible the white line of surf. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha The stratum of the earth is black and pitchy, and the springs beneath it are of a dark and graveolent water. The Pilgrims of the Rhine It seemed impossible to follow him in the pitchy darkness, on a mossy soil that muffled the sound of footsteps. The Eight Strokes of the Clock The cessation of the lightning was succeeded by pitchy darkness, and the roaring of the wind and rain was so great that they called loudly to one another lest they lose touch in the blackness. The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis To the nostrils of the man and woman up floated an acrid, pitchy smell. Darkness and Dawn I was walking along an unknown path in pitchy darkness, hearing only the drip, drip, splash of the water slowly falling from the roof. Jim Davis I noticed some pitchy trees that had been deeply hacked for kindling-wood and torches, precious conveniences to belated voyagers on stormy nights. Travels in Alaska The knocking had ceased and, creeping nearer, I found the doors open and, from the pitchy gloom of the interior, heard a hoarse gasping that spoke of vicious effort. Peregrine's Progress The cold, grey light of earliest morning, that light which is rather the fading of night than the coming of day, filled the room with a faint hue, more cheerless than pitchiest darkness. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process And then, all at once, Tammy's blue-light went out, and there came, what seemed by contrast, pitchy darkness. The Ghost Pirates Though I cannot prevent the vile drugs and counterfeit Frankincense, which render its flame at once pitchy, glowing, and unsteady, I would yet be no voluntary accomplice in the Sacrilege. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Hopes of subduing the fire at first were strong, but soon heavy volumes of smoke and a pitchy smell told that it had reached the cable-room. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea The scud, however, had covered the moon once more, and the darkness was so pitchy black that I felt that I might reconnoitre a little more closely without fear of discovery. Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire All this time, it was crack, crack, crack, from the crater, rumbling sounds and heavy explosions; the last attended by flames, and smoke of a pitchy darkness. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers The pitchy quality of the blackness in the closet aided him in bruising himself; he ran into a thousand things of all kinds of shapes and textures every time he moved. The Green Mouse Black pitchy clouds from thence rain down revenge. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 And through the long, still nights this cry was hers, As on her couch she lay till dreary dawn, Her large eyes dark with horror looking out Upon the pitchy darkness unafraid. Poems He paused at the entrance, and then, with a rustling of branches and snapping of twigs, the faint light was suddenly shut off from outside, and we were left in pitchy darkness. Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire Such pitchy darkness covered the face of the plain that Smith ordered every man to touch his front file as he marched. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Again she saw the cabin at home in that pitchy black which precedes the first leavening of dawn, and herself getting up to start early on the long walk. The Power and the Glory In dead silence and in pitchy darkness I struggled up the stone steps, wondering what I should find at the next turning. Salute to Adventurers He opened the door, pulling it to again after him as he crept inside; then taking a step forward in the pitchy darkness, promptly fell over a bucket with an appalling crash. The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs The night was pitchy dark, and his information was that a small earthwork built to command the ford was occupied by a permanent garrison. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Not the slightest sound of any kind reached his ears; while it had, in some unaccountable manner, suddenly become so pitchy dark that he could not distinguish a single object before him. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont The atmosphere grew suffocating with the pitchy smoke and it became a choice of deaths, either that of choking or that of burning. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The climax of horror was reached when the gas was extinguished, and all were left in pitchy darkness. The Earth Trembled After a few seconds of darkness, here and there a long rib of yellow light appeared; then these disappeared, and once more the party was in the pitchy dusk. Annette, the Metis Spy At noonday a pitchy darkness completely obscured the light of the sun, continuing for about ten minutes at a time, and being frequently repeated during the afternoon. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th' astonished crowd. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe |
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