The elephant, thanks to the skilful guidance of the Parsee, was advancing rapidly through the still
darksome forest, and, an hour after leaving the pagoda, had crossed a vast plain.
After telling of this war, Caedmon goes on to relate how the wicked angels "into darkness urged them their
darksome way."
There she sat and thought in the
darksome cave, and was filled with fear and sorrow.
And so the flower of Eden has bloomed, likewise, in this old,
darksome house to-day."
She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquaintance only with the grey twilight of a dungeon, or other
darksome apartment of the prison.
Chasms there were on either side, and
darksome caves wherein fierce robbers lived, and dragons, very terrible, whose jaws dripped blood.
To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the
darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs.
All through life that piece of crape had hung between him and the world: it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, and kept him in that saddest of all prisons, his own heart; and still it lay upon his face, as if to deepen the gloom of his
darksome chamber, and shade him from the sunshine of eternity.
For myself, hiding the jewel under my cloak, I shall hie me back to my attic chamber, in one of the
darksome alleys of London.
'It's a coldish mornin' for you, Miss Agnes,' observed Smith; 'and a
darksome 'un too; but we's happen get to yon spot afore there come much rain to signify.'
As we sat soberly drinking claret there with men of to-day, the spirits of the departed came in and took their places round the
darksome board.
As she was uninformed respecting the exact locality of the place of business of Chicksey Veneering and Stobbles, but knew it to be near Mincing Lane, she directed herself to be driven to the corner of that
darksome spot.