Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

Astonishingly enough, it was my own voice I heard there in the darkness, begging this man to make love to me.

: The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences ; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides.

Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.

In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of " Mashu ", entered a subterranean garden.

" Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it.

Indian newspapers repeated Nehru's own words of the time of Gandhi's assassination: " The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

In the beginning there was nothing in the universe but only darkness and the divine essence who removed the darkness and created the primordial waters.

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.

" O Lord Lead me from the unreal to the real. Lead me from the darkness to light. Lead me from death to immortality. May there be peace, peace, and perfect peace ".

He also loved the darkness, for it is said that it was there where "... he could best contemplate ", thus sometimes hiding out in caves.

On the night of April 19 there was an assault on San Felipe is deemed final, led by three columns of grenadiers supported by the Jamaicans and several British companies, conveniently aided by the darkness and the constant bombardment from ships.

The winter darkness is not totally dark on the mainland ; there is twilight for a few hours around noon in Tromsø, but in Longyearbyen there is near total darkness in the midst of the dark period.

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.

Jacques then descends to 400ft and floats there for a brief moment staring into the darkness.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

There was a fog, which increased the darkness of the night.

In war, on a night like this, it was only the outward emotions that mattered, what could be flung out into the darkness to damage others.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

while the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet inactivity, and was associated with the Moon.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

After Alexander's death, his strong realm was plunged into a period of darkness that would eventually lead to war with England.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

Salieri's first French opera contained scenes of great solemnity and festivity ; yet overshadowing it all was darkness and revenge.

The day became like night, which sudden darkness was believed to be an eclipse of the Sun.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

Under cover of darkness some 19 legions and 12, 000 cavalry fled before Antony was able to engage Octavian in a land battle.

Carmilla had nocturnal habits, but was not confined to the darkness.

It was said that out of herself she divided the darkness and the light, keeping for herself the darkness of creation and creating her brother Apollo, the light.

The use of darkness to frighten or confuse the player was nearly unheard of in games released prior to Doom.

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.

Erving Goffman has noted however ' the considerable informational delicacy of this form of interaction ', and how ' individuals may use darkness to ensure strategic ambiguity '.

In the Turkish trenches, the darkness and cramped conditions led to considerable confusion amongst the attackers.

' Non-identification demands considerable moral effort ... prevents a descent into that darkness '; but though ' the conscious mind is liable to be submerged at any moment in the unconscious ... understanding acts like a life-saver.

Carton De Wiart showed considerable vigour in managing the landing and dispersal of troops and supplies in such a way as to get them off the ships and into the hills during the five hours of darkness prevailing in Namsos in late April.

Robins displayed considerable talents as a magus ; presenting the appearance of angels, burning shining lights, half-moons and stars in chambers, thick darkness with his head in a flame of fire and his person riding on the wings of the wind.