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His clothes were of the plainest cut and of the dunnest color.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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His leviathans and huge worms and wrecks of ships rot on every shore and in his dunnest deeps amidst pearls and sea-born blooms.
The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902
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Cardoness did not read Dante, else he would have said to himself that his anger often filled his heart with hell's dunnest gloom.
Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894
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Cardoness did not read Dante, else he would have said to himself that his anger often filled his heart with hell's dunnest gloom.
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878
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If you have some one you dislike, some one who has injured or offended you, some rival or some enemy, whom to meet, to see, to read or to hear the name of, always brings hell's dunnest gloom into your heart -- well, put off this piece of your sin concerning him; do not speak about him.
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878
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On the loneliest coast, in the dunnest night, a sense of companionship comes with the smell of seaweed.
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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In ten minutes it was dunnest night, and a rattling thunder-storm.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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Through guards and dunnest night how came it there?
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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At a few yards from the mouth the light disappeared, and I found myself immersed in the dunnest obscurity.
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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