A tenebrous cave. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
In the pavement, in the fold of tenebrous color, in the eclipse of shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
Granville's tenebrous Human tone made the non combative Hivistahm shake slightly. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
His gaze drifted through the canopy, out over somber fields and tenebrous heaven. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
I found it interesting that, to Patrick's inner ear, tenebrous doesn't sound dark. From Wordnik.com. [If you have a moment ...] Reference
Pale, tenebrous moonlight illuminated the valley in the forest and the falling rain. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Despite its tenebrous title, BLACK MOON has surprisingly bright bearing for a weird-out. From Wordnik.com. [BLACK MOON on Flix] Reference
It still generated the same sounds, the same tenebrous darkness beneath the metal arches. From Wordnik.com. [The I Inside]
The CIA now has invented the tenebrous idea of exploding civilian aircraft while in flight. From Wordnik.com. [FUNERAL ORATION FOR CUBAN VICTIMS OF CUBANA] Reference
“The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist. From Wordnik.com. [Books in 2009, #12] Reference
We stood again before the tenebrous wall where first we had faced the priestess and the Voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
CHAPTER TEN DRAGON FIRE Submerged in red, tenebrous haze, where suns in sanguine splendor set. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Without shame, incendiary black squirrels inhabit upper Michigan and append the tenebrous dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Black Squirrel Poem] Reference
The room filled with darkness, a tenebrous shroud in which the young Cimmerian could see nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
He regarded the nearly full moon and its tenebrous halo, a sign, perhaps, of more wetness to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
And her taut silks, her hat with its tenebrous plumes, her slender bejeweled hand waft legendary magic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
And the tenebrous images we found would suggest it's pretty chilly over on the fourth rock from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Schmidt's Google Launches Mars Mapping Tool] Reference
It tugs at the boundaries of my body, weighted down by someone else veiling herself in its tenebrous gauze. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing the Needle Too Far] Reference
The ghosts of Jim Crow and Bull Connors have been exorcised from the most tenebrous shadows of American life. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Cooper: What President Obama Means] Reference
The gecko did not favorably view Nawin unzipping his skin and lying down in his tenebrous tomb in such a manner. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Then he began to pull down linen, shoving tenebrous tombs back into their embankments, and readjusting bottom bunks. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
At last Brandes came to Dresden (July, 1871) and found the tenebrous poet plunged in the study of Neander and Strauss. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
White Aoud is a little too snuggly to be a wallowing companion, but most of other aouds suit my tenebrous mood to a t. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Most painters that I have known are at the confluence of light and dark; they seek to push back the tenebrous nature of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference
To step within the grasp of one of those tenebrous shapes, he sensed, would be to vanish forever from the realm of the living. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
And, he saw, it was not a cloud or a tumor but a shape, some tenebrous, cyclopean shape racing toward the place where he stood. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
The pages on which I have drawn not only are easy to write, they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular. From Wordnik.com. [George Steiner at The New Yorker] Reference
Before the full mantle of night enfolded that tenebrous vale, he wanted to be as close to the walls of the fortress as he could. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
It hovered over her in the stars, dropping plummet-like earthward, its great wings spread over her; she lay in its tenebrous shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
A relation of dominion and desire is established between the luminous substance of the soul and the tenebrous substance of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Suhrawardi] Reference
The crimes which were committed in the Isle of Pines prison spread tenebrous legends throughout the Island since the times of Castall. From Wordnik.com. [TELEVISION APPEARANCE ON CHANNEL 2] Reference
But the result was a close and tenebrous atmosphere that, even broken by illuminated table lamps, felt tomblike and unnaturally still. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
Few attempt the bulky volume of Al-Mutanabbi — though many place it open upon the sofa, — fewer still the tenebrous compositions of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
What Gloria hoped in the tenebrous depths of her soul, what she expected that great gift of money to bring about, is difficult to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
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