caliginous

• ““It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does.”

  2009 October « Hyperpat’s HyperDay

• “Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty

• “You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ...”

  Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration

• “Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy.”

  Mistborn

• “Yet, as she turned weakly, she saw Camon looming above her in the caliginous room, drunken fury showing in his face.”

  Mistborn

• “Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect.”

  Essays and Miscellanies

• “Behind this individual, a corpulent caliginous man, came a following round of guards.”

  Simon & Schuster: Pawns and Symbols

• “Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.”

  Moonwar

• “Ahead, the sun began to emerge from hiding, and it was as caliginous as the misbegotten stars.”

  The Howling Stones

• “Boulders and trees continued to slide into the caliginous void and vanish.”

  Cyber Way

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