death-dark

It was death-dark outside the bronze-hinged double gate; only a dim lamp hung above from chains, to show how dark it was, and the moon - cut off by trees and houses on a bluff of rising ground - lent nothing to the gloom.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

Terror and pain were strangling his throat until his eyes grew death-dark in the struggle.

The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

Foghorns called into walled cloud, and you still alive, drawn to the light as if it were a fire kept by monks, darkness once crusted with stars, but now death-dark as you sail inward.

The New Yorker Carolyn Forch 2010

we are the Faithless Adam, wandering beneath a death-dark sea;

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

we are the Faithless Adam, wandering beneath a death-dark sea;

A Poem Draft 2005