More forbidding

Usage examples of darker.

The forked tongue of the Serpent was still a thing of crumbling smoke in a dark and yawning gullet that was but shadow filling the end of the room where men reeled and fenced and thrust and fell, as the blue light rose around the king, growing deeper and darker until it seemed like the night sky studded with stars.

It was darker yet in the outlying streets of cheaply built and dearly rented white frame houses, streets where bright lights and neon were strangers, streets where fluted-saucer reflectors behind incandescent bulbs threw islands of light at sixty-foot intervals in the sea of night.

George Tucker, today only an obscure footnote to the history of the drama, perceived yet another form of devil, one darker than any conjured up by the warring theologians of his time.

Wherefore I was, nay, am yet persuaded that they were no mere idle dreams, but rather spirits from a realm darker than ours, and much more terrible.

He parked on the Square and sat for a little while, smoking and studying the dark profile of Private Parks against an even darker sky.

Badon turned, just a darker figure against the dark, his face shadowed, unreadable.

She looked that way, smooth figure dark against a slightly darker background.

He tried to close his eyes to the smooth tan skin, the darker nipples, the triangle of black hair, but still he saw her.

One hundred yards into the cave from the ledge, it had gotten narrower and darker, until they had to fire lanterns to see.

He was as mad over his pictures as he was over his books, and had fitted up a little room for Gentleman to work in, darker and closer even than his library.

I thought I saw it growing darker and fiercer with every day that passed.

I look at her eyes: one is marked, I see now, with a fleck of darker brown, almost black.

Her eyes were darker than they ought to have been, and seemed to glitter.

The worn old beam above him, with its tiny carving of a watchful owl and its wandering sweep of darker wood, was as familiar to him as his own right hand.

And behind them all, every mighty wizard or ambitious tersept or arrogant baron, staying silent just now but showing itself more and more, was the darker, slithering shadow of the Serpent.