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79 Then he hailed the speaker and cried out to him, saying, “O thou who farest in sombrest night, draw near to me and tell me thy tale haply thou shalt find me one who will succour thee in thy sufferings.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

About this she bound a fillet of brocade, purfled with pearls, jacinths and other jewels, from beneath which she let down two tresses327 each looped with a pendant of ruby, charactered with glittering gold, and she loosed her hair, as it were the sombrest night; and lastly she incensed herself with aloes-wood and scented herself with musk and ambergris, and Hubub said to her, “Allah save thee from the evil eye!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The solitude is of that sort which takes hold upon the very soul and weaves about it hues of the sombrest cast.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

It was one of Papua's yellow mornings when she shows herself in her sombrest, most baleful mood.

The Moon Pool 1919

It was one of Papua's yellow mornings when she shows herself in her sombrest, most baleful mood.

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

Almost immediately, the French maid came gliding down the stairs, still gowned in the sombrest black, still as pale as a woman could be.

The Great Secret 1906

The far valley depths will be hidden in the sombrest purple.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

Standing there in front of them, his hands in his pockets, pale with the excitement of speaking, his curly head thrown out against the whitened wall of the chapel, he lashed into the men before him, talking their language, their dialect even; laying bare their weaknesses, sensualities, indecisions; painting in the sombrest colours the grim truths of their melancholy lives.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

These would invest their picture with the sombrest hues; and, making this assume, under their pessimist delineation, blackest Tartarean aspect, would crown it with the exhibition of the

A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians 1885

They were of brick, but the fronts had a stucco facing cut into imitation of ashlar, and weathered to the sombrest grey.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880