tenebrous

• Turning west along the seafront that first gusty day, I encountered a strange sight that summoned the United States from its tenebrous presence: a phalanx of poles, topped with snapping flags displaying a five-pointed Cuban star against a black backdrop, bearing down on the eastern facade of a boxy concrete-and-glass structure that houses the US Interests Section in Havana. —  GreenCine Daily
• Lily was rarely ever in a tenebrous mood, it just wasn't the way she was made. —  I Was Born2Cree8
• It seemed very probably at that time that the headship of the world might pass to Egypt; which was still a sovereign power, and immensely rich, and highly populated, and a compact kingdom;--whereas the Roman state was everywhere ill-defined, tenebrous, and falling to pieces. —  The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• Black as the tenebrous Arctic night was my soul Do you mean,' said I, 'that I want to put you out of the way in order to go in your place to the Pole? —  The Purple Cloud
• I am that precious stone, my Sun is he by whose rays this tenebrous world is filled with light. —  Darvish

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