The next day, they crossed the Weser River in assault boats and under the cover of darkness carried out a flanking manoeuvre on the Germans occupying the town of Leese.

They were delayed by 20 minutes and the smoke screens that should have hidden their assault had lifted, with the advantage of surprise and darkness lost the Germans had manned their defensive positions in preparation for the landings.

The attack began at 0645, 9 December, and sometime during the night of 10 December and the early morning of 11 December the Germans withdrew under of the cover of darkness leaving the city proper largely under American control.

Middleton now had about 68, 000 officers and men in his corps, many weary and many uninitiated, along an 88-mile front facing about 200, 000 Germans who were deftly moving into position under the cover of darkness.

He initially seems willing to forsake Antigone, but when Haemon gently tries to persuade his father to spare Antigone, claiming that ' under cover of darkness the city mourns for the girl ', the discussion deteriorates and the two men are soon bitterly insulting each other.

In a version of the Zuni creation story told to anthropologist Ruth Benedict, people initially dwelt crowded tightly together in total darkness in a place deep in the earth known as the fourth world.

Although the chair umpire initially refused to call off the match due to darkness despite Graf's plea, he changed his mind and postponed the final set until the next day.

" An article on Nelson in Sports Illustrated noted that initially caddies were not permitted to play at the club: " e would often practice in the dark, putting his white handkerchief over the hole so he could find it in the darkness.

Daniel Ekeroth wrote in 2008: " The two visionaries and Per " Dead " Ohlin pushed each other further into darkness, and sometime in 1990 they finally adopted the Satanic image that would become so crucial for the genre [...] It's well documented that Øystein initially was very into death metal and grindcore.

He had been initially concerned about the suction from the Titanic and later by the fact that being a mile away from the wreck, with no compass and in complete darkness, they had no way of returning to the stricken vessel.

Poisson thought that he had found a flaw when he argued that a consequence of Fresnel ’ s theory was that there would exist an on-axis bright spot in the shadow of a circular obstacle, where there should be complete darkness according to the particle-theory of light.

Another possibility is Proto-Indo-European * leug-meaning blackness, dimness, darkness ( thought by Pokorny to be the root of the ill-attested Gaulish word lugos ‘ raven ’), or * leug-‘ swamp, peat-bog ’.

In an annual rite, called the Banishing of Apep, priests would build an effigy of Apep that was thought to contain all of the evil and darkness in Egypt, and burn it to protect everyone from Apep's influence for another year, in a similar manner to modern rituals such as Zozobra.

Jennie Collins, an African-American woman, thought to have assisted Farmer in his flight, and James Jolly, a white member of the posse who was mistaken for Farmer in the darkness were both shot and killed.

From the half-open shell rose several jointed cylinders, tipped with polypous appendages ; and in the darkness inside the shell I thought I saw a horrible bestial, mouthless face, with deep-sunk eyes and covered with glistening black hair.

He described in graphic terms the greatest of the more superficial changes he underwent ; how he had " carried into logical and ethical problems the maxims and postulates of physical knowledge ," and had moved within the narrow lines drawn by the philosophical instructions of the class-room " interpreting human phenomena by the analogy of external nature "; how he served in willing captivity " the ' empirical ' and ' necessarian ' mode of thought ," even though " shocked " by the dogmatism and acrid humours " of certain distinguished representatives " and how in a period of " second education " at Humboldt University in Berlin, " mainly under the admirable guidance of Professor Trendelenburg ," he experienced " a new intellectual birth " which " was essentially the gift of fresh conceptions, the unsealing of hidden openings of self-consciousness, with unmeasured corridors and sacred halls behind ; and, once gained, was more or less available throughout the history of philosophy, and lifted the darkness from the pages of Kant and even Hegel.

The Great Goddess is thought to have been a goddess of the underworld, darkness, the earth, water, war, and possibly even creation itself.

Generally, the outer darkness is thought to be hell ; however, many Christians associate the outer darkness more generally as a place of separation from God or from the metaphorical " wedding banquet " that Jesus is expected to have upon his Second Coming.

Poisson thought that he had found a flaw when he argued that a consequence of Fresnel ’ s theory was that there would exist an on-axis bright spot in the shadow of a circular obstacle, where there should be complete darkness according to the particle-theory of light.

It is usually thought to mean " dark ", by analogy with the Sanskrit word tamas, meaning darkness.

" And according to Koenraad Elst: " When it is said that Agni, the fire, “ puts the dark demons to flight ”, one should keep in mind that the darkness was thought to be filled with ghosts or ghouls, so that making light frees the atmosphere of their presence.

He goes on to express an almost mystical delight in the thought that the sarcophagus would be exposed to darkness and light, rain and snow and thus be linked directly to the universe.

His news video, which shows an advancing ash cloud and mud flows down the South Fork Toutle River, was made famous by its eleven-minute long " journey into the dark ", six of those minutes of which were recorded in " total darkness " as Crockett narrated to what he thought would be his " last day on Earth.

It discussed the " ugliness and indifference " of Yan ' an ; also criticizing some " big men " in the CCP whom Wang thought were responsible for the " growth of darkness " in China.

It was lightning in the darkness ... here before me was indisputable evidence of what I had thought possible — an intensely vital artist whose medium was photography.

Eventually, his progress took a decisive turn when he thought attentively about Blaise Pascal's words: " There is enough light for those who wish only to see, and enough darkness for those who have an opposite mood.

" Herodotus's praise for these messengers —" Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor darkness of night prevents these couriers from completing their designated stages with utmost speed "— was inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York and is sometimes thought of as the United States Postal Service creed.

The frenzy ones thought that the atrocious monster is especially horrifying in the darkness and in the large waters, that he comes through all the depths where he watches over all fish and aquatic animals and gives everyone as much as he pleases.

During fierce, close-quarters fighting, some of the paratroopers made it into the PAVN trenchline but were ordered to pull back as darkness fell.

** Allied transport aircraft carrying paratroopers from North Africa to Sicily again fly low in darkness over Allied ships and ground forces, and again come under friendly fire.

However, landing paratroopers, and especially gliders, without the cover of darkness left them exceedingly vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire.

The paratroopers failed to reach the citadel after losing their way in the featureless and snow-covered landscape, but the force in the citadel broke out on their own under cover of darkness ; around 150 men eventually reached German lines.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

On the evening of 22 June, Nelson's fleet passed the French in the darkness, overtaking the slow invasion convoy without realising how close they were to their target.

A search of historical observations revealed that the spots were probably the most prominent transient features ever seen on the planet, and that while the Great Red Spot is notable for its striking color, no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the SL9 impacts have ever been recorded before.

" Significantly, John does not have Jesus claim to be the Son of God or the Messiah before the Sanhedrin or Pilate, and he omits the traditional earthquakes, thunder, and midday darkness that were said to accompany Jesus ' death.

The redshift hypothesised in the Big Bang model would by itself explain the darkness of the night sky, even if the universe were infinitely old.

Some concerts were even performed in complete darkness as happened during the performance at York Minster, 20 October 1975.

The Cooperative Commonwealth of Gronlund also impressed me, but the writings of Kautsky were so clear and conclusive that I readily grasped, not merely his argument, but also caught the spirit of his socialist utterance – and I thank him and all who helped me out of darkness into light.

Lemures were formless and liminal, associated with darkness and its dread.

Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.

He noted that 24-hour patterns in the movement of the leaves of the plant Mimosa pudica continued even when the plants were kept in constant darkness, in the first experiment to attempt to distinguish an endogenous clock from responses to daily stimuli.

It appeared hundreds of rebels were using the cover of darkness and their knowledge of the maze of small streets and alleys around Tombland to launch hit-and-run attacks on Royal troops.

As the writer Don Atyeo has explained in his study of Violence in Sport ( 1979 ), ' Boxiana is riddled with " Fancy " slang: '" Ogles " were blackened, " peepers " plunged into darkness, " tripe-shops " received " staggerers ", " ivories " were cracked, " domino boxes " shattered, and " claret " flowed in a steady stream.

Fangorn forest reached right up into the eastern foothills of the southern end of the Misty Mountains, and deep dales there were filled with an ancient darkness.

The last flowers of the Trees were given to two Maiar each in their own ship to sail around the world forever at different times of the day so that neither Valinor nor Middle-earth would forever be in darkness.

The defences of the city were stormed from three different directions as darkness came on, regulars and militia fighting with equal gallantry.

A solar eclipse and a darkness of 17 days ' duration were attributed by common superstition to the horror of Heaven.

In the aftermath of these two actions, all BOAC flights from Lisbon were subsequently re-routed and operated only under the cover of darkness.

Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn't he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness?

‘ wo sons were born at one birth – Dylan and Lleu, who are considered as representing the twin powers of darkness and light.

But her warmth chased away the darkness and insects of all kinds were created from it.

* John 3: 19: " And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Helping one another in complete darkness, they managed to crawl into a space above the false ceilings of the building and, fortunately, none were lost.

At the point of the drama where the Martian invaders were invading towns and the countryside with flashes of light and poison gases, a power failure suddenly plunged almost the entire town of 1, 000 into darkness.