Hence loathed Melancholy.../In stygian cave forlorn. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Too many words Kevin, too many adjectives chased down the 'stygian' gloom of your thought processes. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
No lights showed in their windows at this stygian hour. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
A series of pinpoint lights came on in the stygian gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Sharp Edges] Reference
We're almost recognizable in the vast stygian swamp of authors. From Wordnik.com. [Collaboration in the Stygian Swamp | The Stiletto Gang] Reference
I can scarcely make out your, ah, self in this -- er -- stygian. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Head cast down into that stygian gloom, he inched carefully backward. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Box whirled round but he could make out nothing in the stygian shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection!. From Wordnik.com. [August 19th, 2008] Reference
She looked around her and saw only stygian darkness through a drizzling rain. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast In Bed]
The rocks closed completely overhead; the dimness changed to stygian darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Down in the tunnel it was stygian, terrifying blackness and everything stopped at once. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
The stygian darkness was relieved only by the muted illumination of the instrument panel. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
If it was dark on the street in front of the shop, it was positively stygian in the alley. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
I have family in Nebraska, so I often travel the stygian road of despair that is I-80 West. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Complicated Interstate Sign EVER.] Reference
Only the unshakable certainty she was not alone in the stygian blackness of the cavernous room. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Demons] Reference
Rather, the section of club that served for performing became slightly less stygian than the rest. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
It looked like a baby dinosaur, ripped palpitating at foetus-stage from some stygian archaic womb. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
The sky was a dull purple, and what light there was came from the ground beneath its stygian spread. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
If the crops flourish, drugmakers could very well find themselves venturing into the stygian depths. From Wordnik.com. [Pharming Underground | Impact Lab] Reference
"No, " Simna growled as he tried to listen and watch both ends of the stygian street at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
Blue crauched like an animal at bay, his gaze darting left and right, trying to penetrate the stygian dark. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
At least, it doesn't plumb the stygian depths of putridity that BLUE CITY and EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE did. From Wordnik.com. [From our friend Fred Blosser] Reference
Then the canal turned black, which gave the parked gondolas the appearance of projecting over a stygian abyss. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
It was more than just the absence of light, it was as if he was in a stygian universe where photons never existed. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The third stygian, who had entered while Conan was occupied, rose up, a brass dagger dripping with blood in each hand. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
Like night dwellers reveling in stygian "safety", the fear the world that clean government and regulations will create. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario] Reference
It swayed and postured to a music only it could hear, the only source of light in the otherwise stygian darkness of the room. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
Time after time the game would spit in your face as you tried futilely to extract the slightest iota of fun from its stygian depths. From Wordnik.com. [Great Moments In Gaming History #1: Daikatana] Reference
Goofy or wacky worlds often jar if you try to introduce tragic themes, and worlds of stygian darkness can choke on some comic things. From Wordnik.com. [theme and world-building] Reference
The boy dangled, a living Tarot card, the hanged man, the Phoenician sailor, innocent lost and barely above the wave of a stygian sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
The flint lighters of our souls illuminate the stygian darkness in the Prestige Spanish Cedar Walk-In Humidor of this worldly existence. From Wordnik.com. [Gene's Bad Poetry] Reference
There is a better-than-average chance you are hurtling toward heartbreak and searing pain and eternal, shadowless, stygian, hellish gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Slap of Luxury: Vulgar Displays of Earning Power] Reference
The interims were dark, and the side streets and alleys stygian. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
Powerful searchlights were employed as long as the stygian darkness continued. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Deluge] Reference
Their aquamarine eye glow reflects the ability to gather light in the stygian depths. From Wordnik.com. [UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World] Reference
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