A thick fog wrapped the world in dimness early this morning; at eight o'clock it was rolling off and piling itself in glorious headlands. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Garden] Reference
As somber in the dimness were the portraits that stared from their frames. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Joan saw and heard so much, then through a kind of dimness, that she could not wipe away, her eyes beheld Jim. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
Moore, coming in, stopped in the dimness to listen. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The place was dim, with the moist dimness of a swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
The dimness of her eyes encouraged him with a great hope. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Over everything else was spread a dimness of age like dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
For the room swam around her in a kind of disordered dimness. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
The candle-flames only seemed to make the dimness more obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Then in the drear dimness of the room a hideous laugh rang out. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
High overhead, almost lost in the dimness, was the arching roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
In the dimness of the gloomy vault, in solitude and solemn silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
They could just dimly make out the faces of each other in the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference
The horses didn't look the same in the dimness without their harnesses. From Wordnik.com. [The Palatski Man] Reference
The Federal agents nodded and moved away into the dimness of the corridor. From Wordnik.com. [Damned If You Don't] Reference
He cursed again, for the tenth time, and stood uncertainly in the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [Survival Tactics] Reference
The rocks closed completely overhead; the dimness changed to stygian darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
The dimness of the light changed to the most exquisite illuminations imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
As their eyes penetrated the dimness, three of the children gave a yell in unison. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Old Beard sat there, in a corner of the dimness, pale eyes fixed silently on the trio. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
'Yes,' she said, looking up again, and smiling through the dimness of her eyes, 'I know.'. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
He squirmed into dimness, his outstretched hands meeting a rough stone surface sloping upward. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
'I'll take the other side,' said Armstrong, and the three lurched slowly along in the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
She fiddled with the latch and let herself in, her eyes adjusting to the dust and the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [Proud Military Wife] Reference
I wheeled on the dimness of the inside cave and saw what I had missed in my flurry over Dudley. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
But there is an increasing opaque dimness in the western horizon that steadily deepens in color. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
In the dimness, the player was hardly visible; he would assure himself of her mortality at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The room was almost gloomy in its dimness, and so quiet that they could hear their own breathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
But suddenly I caught the roll of drums and there came a dimness over my eyes, for I recognized familiar forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
Soft emerald shadows hung far down, breaking up into surface rifts of cool dimness as the waves swung over them. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Scrambling, sliding, worrying in the dimness, I finally reached the less precipitous slopes of the base of the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
If that road to the house of Eugene Larue had seemed a part of infinity in the dimness of the unknown, what was this?. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
His heart grew young within him as he played, and when he rose to his feet, the dimness of age fell away from his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
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