stygian

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How to use stygian in a sentence

  • A narrow loophole barely filtered through a pale ray of light into that semi-stygian darkness.

  • It was not the sort of night we know on earth, but a stygian blackness.

    The Fire People | Ray Cummings
  • The night had become inky-black; the town was in a valley and the shadow of trees and houses made the darkness even more stygian.

    The Onslaught from Rigel | Fletcher Pratt
  • One of the stygian vessels, the Despair, was sunk by the Hope.

    Old Farm Fairies: | Henry Christopher McCook
  • Then the stygian darkness of the great pines grew; and the silence of wonder fell on the two quarrellers.

    Werwolves | Elliott O'Donnell

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