Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...earth grows dark at the dismal sight...
There is a dark side to it, too, as aching limbs, pale faces, from want of sleep and four hours of "standing round," fully attest...
Pale grew his face, his dark eye burned...
...taken this matter in hand, as is proved by its requiring the candidates for admission to write short essays at their examination; but it is feared that these requirements, unless carefully kept in the light by those who desire a change in the present system, may pass into as dark a shadow as that which has fallen upon the requisitions in English reading. These entrance examinations might furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other both as regards the time when themes should first be written, and also as regards...
...pond below you. You get the effect of infinite space below as well as above, - one sea of gold imperceptibly yet rapidly shifting into all the colors of the spectroscope. What wonderful massing of clouds, too! - Swiss mountains and glaciers with light and shadow perfect! Yes, it is getting dark, and it begins to rain. What? Tremont Street? Have I been dreaming? No; only looking at a collection of J. Foxcroft Cole's landscapes...