Adjective : a pitch-dark night. From Dictionary.com.
The lamp was dim, and the place pitch-dark around. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
It was pitch-dark and a drizzling rain was falling. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
When I awake, it is night; pitch-dark, and very cold. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891] Reference
The nights are pitch-dark with a low blanket of cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
It was pitch-dark, and the ground was wet and squelchy. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
There would be no need for it in the pitch-dark forest. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
It was pitch-dark, and the rain was pouring in torrents. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
"Bob," I said as I climbed down into the pitch-dark lab. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
And this is a room which is pitch-dark and without lights. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2001] Reference
"I near mistook him for a bandit since it was pitch-dark.". From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The night was pitch-dark; and there was no light in the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The generators have gone dead, and it'll be pitch-dark below. From Wordnik.com. [High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace] Reference
The windowless room was pitch-dark and I turned on the lights. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Returning late at night, I found the capital nearly pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [The N.Y. Philharmonic in Pyongyang] Reference
The room is pitch-dark always, and it is full of tables and tomes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
In the second place, it was bitterly cold, and a pitch-dark night. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
But it finally became pitch-dark, and even Deets could do nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Is it the drunkenness of sleep, the pitch-dark night or the wet step?. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
The room was pitch-dark except for the electric light from the street. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
The worst thing also they say is, at night, you know, it's pitch-dark there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2005] Reference
It was pitch-dark outside, and the trench had become a glissade of slimy mud. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Evidently the old man and the girl had no light, for the cabin was pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
It was pitch-dark, and the advancing enemy not more than a thousand yards away. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
She wondered where the turtle was, but before she could look it was pitch-dark again. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
"Haven't you got any lanterns?" shouted Mr. Bobbsey to Hank, for it was pitch-dark now. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
There was no moon, clouds were packing, and there was every sign of a pitch-dark night. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
In the other room it was pitch-dark, and an atmosphere -- no, ten atmospheres at least!. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim] Reference
Deimos was not in the sky this night, and Phobos 'disappearance left it near pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
Seven years it must be — he had dreamed that he was walking through a pitch-dark room. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Backstage, it seemed pitch-dark at first, but soon we found the windows gave light enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
It was pitch-dark inside, and she could hear the horses moving anxiously, smelling the fires. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
He felt like he was in a pitch-dark room searching for the door with only his sense of touch. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
Our halts were still short and frequent, and in the deep shadow of the mountain it was pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
When Newt began to be able to see again, it did him little good, for it was then almost pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
It had clouded up and was almost pitch-dark, but that had no effect on July's pace, which was fast. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
There was nothing to do but to walk forward; which I did through passage after passage, pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The night was pitch-dark, it rained hard, and the convergence of our columns toward Dallas produced much confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He began to speak again, his eyes beginning to shine with a light from within, like an unidentified animal on a pitch-dark forest trail. From Wordnik.com. [Three Corpse Brunch: Part One] Reference
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