Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

Watson spoke bewilderedly to the dark night flecked with pine-knot torches.

At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

On a particularly dark and wet night Philip attempted a surprise attack but was thwarted by the appearance of a bright light in the sky.

" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially " the great unwashed ", " pursuit of the almighty dollar ", " the pen is mightier than the sword ", as well as the famous opening line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

The opening was popularized by the Peanuts comic strip, in which Snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with It was a dark and stormy night.

It reads: It was a dark and stormy night.

From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett's bed ( with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark ).

Khunen writes, " Hamsters are nocturnal rodents who are active during the night ...", but others have written that because hamsters live underground during most of the day, only leaving their burrows about an hour before sundown and then returning when it gets dark, their behavior is primarily crepuscular.

Aside from some craters near the lunar poles such as Shoemaker, all parts of the Moon see around 14. 77 days of sunlight followed by 14. 77 days of " night " ( there is no permanently " dark side " of the Moon ).

The smooth coordination among the three, leading their, by now battle-hardened, troops in the dark of the night, led the bewildered enemy to scatter.

In astrophysics and physical cosmology, Olbers ' paradox, named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and also called the " dark night sky paradox ", is the argument that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.

Edward Robert Harrison's Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe ( 1987 ) is the definitive account to date of the dark night sky paradox, seen as a problem in the history of science.

* Why is it dark at night?

Dart rescued him with the now famous joke, "... what would have happened if Mrs. Ples had met Dear Boy one dark night.

This is the radio equivalent of painting something a dark color so that it cannot be seen by the eye at night.

According to Sammy Davis who met him there, Nuvolari showed a great sense for dark humour and seemed to enjoy situations when everything went wrong.

The distinctive dress uniform ( 1 ) includes dark blue trousers and double-breasted tailed jacket, with gold coloured ornaments including: double stripe on trouser legs, dress epaulettes, cuffs, collars, and jacket tail edges-distinctively, the double gold trouser stripe is in ' cloth of gold ' for officers, but a bright yellow-gold cloth for other ranks.

Larger and longer tailed than nisosimilis, it has dark slate-coloured upperparts, and more distinct rufous barring on the underparts.

After that time, the universe enters the so-called dark era, and is expected to consist chiefly of a dilute gas of photons and leptons .< sup >, § VIA .</ sup > With only very diffuse matter remaining, activity in the universe will have tailed off dramatically, with extremely low energy levels and extremely long time scales.

They are typically long tailed, dark brown above, and white or orange-brown below.

Southern leaf tailed geckos are a light to dark brown colour with darker patterns.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Pass the iron rations, please, and light another candle, for it's getting dark down here and we're minded to read a bit of world law just to pass the time away.

The dark forms moved like mourners on some nocturnal pilgrimage, their dirge unsung for want of vocal chords.

She stayed too late, and when she left, it was dark and time to go home and cook supper for her husband.

Russia, whose technology is not quite primitive, is still in the dark ages when it comes to improving the outboard motor, for instance.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

And for a man who traveled around without any change of clothing, a few more stains on his dark suit may very well have gone unnoticed.

but all the same he thought now, uneasily, of the way in which Angelo earned his living -- and paid for his own stuff -- and eyed the soft smile, and the spaniel-like dark eyes, and he felt a little ill.

She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??

Hoag stretched his left hand to the wall and fumbled for the switch: evil flourishes in the dark.

A dark bathroom can be pretty scary, and he'd creep back to bed, proud of himself, thinking: Tomorrow, for sure, I'll go down to the rock and keep my promise to Dad.

Richard's dark eyes came up and seemed for the tiniest moment to reflect sharp light.

In his view, " The dark age of pro and contra slogans, unfair polemics, and humiliations is not yet completely over and done with, but there seems to be some hope for a more constructive discussion " ( ib.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

The opera with its dark overture, lavish choral writing, many ballet scenes, and electrifying finale depicting a glimpse of hellish torture kept the opera on the stage in Paris for over forty years.

Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence.

One hypothesis for the cave fish's evolution says that because of its dark habitat, the fish embryo saves energy it would normally use to develop eyes to develop other body parts, and this developmental choice would eventually dominate the population.

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

Blind people with undamaged eyes may still register light non-visually for the purpose of circadian entrainment to the 24-hour light / dark cycle.