Word: darkness
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Then, pattering eagerly ahead, he led them to a tiny door, opened it, revealed a dark ascending stair. "This stairway leads," said the Abbe Loubiere, "to the dome. There the view is truly superb. Come!" Last week the Abbe gathered newspapermen about him on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, confided eagerly...
...bandit leader, a slim dark-skinned Mexican Indian, approached with drawn revolver, shrilled: "Climb down! Get out into the road!" Soon deft bandit fingers caressed the fat wallets of Mr. Ruff and Mr. Zahler, found a check book and some small change on Mr. Rosenthal. Louts, the bandits searched intensively without finding Mrs. Zahler's jewels...
...extensive retinue of his ancestors, yet lived both frugally and simply. His taste for jam and for bean sauces is still said to be marked, but he has seldom indulged in these edibles to excess. His people grew to know and love him as a dignified personage with dark, luminous eyes, and possessed of very remarkable powers of oratory. For nine years he reigned. Then his health broke down utterly...
...scene shifts to the CRIMSON office. It is late, bed time, perhaps, for the student of well-regulated habits. But not the Photographic candidate. He is in the dark room, developing the negatives which have been the fruit of his day's labors. And again he is asked...
...wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that he may learn...