What is "dark figure"

Usage examples of "dark figure".

I was just about to rise out of the water--the tickling surface already receding down my collar to my bust--when a dark figure emerged from the tree line, a shadow amidst shadows.

As the boys watched, fascinated, they saw a dark figure emerge into the light.

Byron walked out of the fog, a tall, dark figure with flowing hair and power clinging to him.

For a long moment he stood in the sun, a tall dark figure on the shining strand, an elf whose black hair blew around his pale face in the wind off the sea.

Then a dark figure blotted out the sun, and he rolled abruptly over to sit up and see who stood outlined there against the sky.

But every time he tried to envision this fantasy assailant, he came up with a faceless, dark figure with long arms and thin but powerful fingers, fingers like steel tongs.

He knew only that the tall dark figure walking at his side, wearing a wide-brimmed black hat, was his master.

There was a long horrible moment of waiting, as the dark figure froze, fiercely twisted under the grey light of the dark sky.

By the renewed light of the fire he could see a dark figure walking toward him, wrapped from head to heel in fur.

With the white hair hidden he was a dark figure suddenly, tall and inscrutable.

Then both Kencyr fell, as the hand suddenly released its grip and a dark figure surged up out of the mist.

Maria Pia probably would have said it was sinful, a gift from the devil, and wrong, but at that moment Nicoletta was grateful, and she smiled up at the lonely dark figure.

Gillian could see a dark figure beyond the glare of the headlights.