Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night
beyond the point where the rainbow rays of the colored suns reached into it.
But once more her scheme was doomed to failure, for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared, and she found herself in a wood black as night
, and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions.
A little native boy scuttled away - as black as night
, woolly-headed, and shiny; he had crept up unknown to look with fearful eyes upon the wonderful white strangers.
You had better take care, sir, how you insult that lady,' said the son, as black as night
It was black as night
, and on it were written, in the red flaming letters which are the handwriting of the fallen angel, 'Without pity and without remorse.
At the head rode a regiment of red-coated hussars--enormous men, black as night
Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night
, dressed in white marble garments.
They were left standing upon the corner, staring; down a side street there were two rows of brick houses, and between them a vista: half a dozen chimneys, tall as the tallest of buildings, touching the very sky--and leaping from them half a dozen columns of smoke, thick, oily, and black as night
One black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as night
and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still went to roost in the next apartment.
He looked black as night
with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string, glaring around as though ever on the point of taking aim.
Sometimes, also, he would laugh, but only in a nervous, hysterical sort of a fashion; while at other times he would sit for hours looking as black as night
, with his heavy eyebrows knitted.
He entered looking as black as night
, bowed awkwardly and was at once furious with himself for it.
looked as black as night
, and was silent and moody.