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night-enshrouded

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  • She shivered; her glance moved again in apprehension to the night-enshrouded Pass.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • And seating himself on the steps, he looked up again to the night-enshrouded Pass.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • As I waited for Mac to strike a match my eyes roved about, seeking to pierce the unnatural blackness that wrapped itself about us, and while my gaze was for an instant fixed on the night-enshrouded canyon, a red tongue of flame flashed out for a moment in the inky shadow below.

    Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • This moan and rush of wind was no dream -- this presence of his in a night-enshrouded and sand-besieged house of the lonely desert was reality -- this adventure was not one of fancy.

    The Rainbow Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • That they were in search of her brother she was now only too certain, and dreading that the boat would land the shore party again on her side of the channel and she be discovered and prevented from giving the alarm, she sprang over the loose slabs of coral that strewed the shore between the water and the coconut palms, and fled along the night-enshrouded path towards her father's house.

    Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884

  • Great rents and splits branched out in the solid walls, like crystallisation; stupefied birds wheeled about and dropped into the furnace; four fierce figures trudged away, East, West, North, and South, along the night-enshrouded roads, guided by the beacon they had lighted, towards their next destination.

    A Tale of Two Cities 1859

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