Example Sentences

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All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer; like lightning faintly penetrating to a man behind a thick black curtain.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John

No life-problem need remain unsolved with their bright spears to drive the tenebrious mists before them.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Minstrel of moisture! silent when high noon   Shows her tanned face among the thirsting clover And parching meadows, thy tenebrious tune   Wakes with the dew or when the rain is over.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

I found that in the tenebrious halo of the Scottish capital there existed, independently of the ignorance of the poor colliers, three distinct elements.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

Minstrel of moisture! silent when high noon Shows her tanned face among the thirsting clover And parching meadows, thy tenebrious tune Wakes with the dew or when the rain is over.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius