mirk
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He had taken that tree, and that tree, and that rock as markers of the path...but there was no path, only the mirk, and the twilight, and the pale trees.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
And out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The widow's room was billowy with rejected petticoats on which, like sea-wrack, floated garters, stockings, and gloves; while a large constellation of paste gleamed fitfully through the mirk of a Paris net.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
But she couldn't be sure, in that mirk she could by no means make out the features of Zinn's companion or even the shape of his head, and the surmise seemed too absurd....
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
She prophesied that, late or soon, Thou would be found deep drowned in Doon; Or catched wi' warlocks i' the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
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