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  • He steps through the untended and time-darkened white oak door.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Meisyl has a bottle of wine before him, and there are two of the heavy goblets on the time-darkened but bare and smoothly polished white oak of the table.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The redhead sits behind a true desk with drawers, an antique of battered and time-darkened white oak, writing in what appears to be a ledger.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • High in his tower, Morhion pored over the time-darkened book lying open on the table before him.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • However, as he bent over the time-darkened pages and began to painstakingly translate the ancient words, he had a hunch be would find something of interest between the cracked leather covers.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • Here a devout group of priests and monks manned the shrine that contained Poland's most precious religious relic, a time-darkened Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mother holding her infant son, the famous Virgin of Czestochowa in the west, adored by the faithful.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Only when it had safely grounded did the eyes of the Warlockian move to another niche on the other side of the curving room, this time bringing up from close to floor level a time-darkened skull to occupy the left corner of the table.

    Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton 1958

  • These veterans, or others wonderfully like them, still occupy their monkish dormitories and haunt the time-darkened corridors and galleries of the hospital, leading a life of old-fashioned comfort, wearing the old-fashioned cloaks, and burnishing the identical silver badges which the Earl of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • Then young Ashiel led him away, down a wide corridor into the billiard-room, and so into another passage, at the end of which a door of stout and time-darkened oak gave access to the library.

    The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

  • Its wide-spread pavilions of one thousand feet, looming up with time-darkened walls, always please me.

    Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various

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