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While milking a cow one snow-covered winter morning, her father said, you will marry the farmer, the barn night-dark and smelly, his head hidden behind flank and sirloin, stubby fingers squeezing udders.
Anemia Christian Bell 2011
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She smiles, touches my arm, and leads me along to see her seven new pups, huddling under a shrub, and then her "garden" with frogs hopping in a night-dark pond.
Karin Badt: Surf and Yoga: A New Way to Experience Morocco Karin Badt 2011
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In one particularly evocative passage, Tom, unable to sleep for worry about the effect of his affair on his marriage, watches the dawn come up over the downs, heralded by "an irregular band of night-dark cloud, like the battlements of a castle".
All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson - review Laura Barnett 2010
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She smiles, touches my arm, and leads me along to see her seven new pups, huddling under a shrub, and then her "garden" with frogs hopping in a night-dark pond.
Karin Badt: Surf and Yoga: A New Way to Experience Morocco Karin Badt 2011
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From the night-dark grass, Gerald let out a low groan and then twisted, raising himself up on one hand.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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The place where she would emerge was night-dark rather than pitch-black, thanks to glimmers of moonlight that filtered in through the mouth of what appeared to be a large cave and glinted off the mirror-smooth blackness of a narrow finger of water.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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She raised a pair of very old and worn-looking binoculars to her night-dark eyes and looked out towards the point where the desert road met the horizon to the west.
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From the night-dark grass, Gerald let out a low groan and then twisted, raising himself up on one hand.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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She raised a pair of very old and worn-looking binoculars to her night-dark eyes and looked out towards the point where the desert road met the horizon to the west.
January 2008 2008
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The place where she would emerge was night-dark rather than pitch-black, thanks to glimmers of moonlight that filtered in through the mouth of what appeared to be a large cave and glinted off the mirror-smooth blackness of a narrow finger of water.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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