Word: darkness
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...library or not. One has to look over numerous piles of books on the different tables, often disturbing other men. In this way, much time is often lost. At five o'clock, when many men come in after books to take out for the night it often is so dark that it is almost impossible to distinguish books lying on the tables...
Bless me! here we have a case that would stir the blood of age to mutiny, (or something of that sort,)-dark hints of fraudulent returns at Memorial, exorbitant charges, special meetings, and all that, which anywhere else would call for investigation by the citizens' association, at least. But what do these Harvard men do? Do they hold a mass-meeting, and have speeches and resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward...
Never illum'd, so dark her inmost thoughts
...short summers hung the dark moist curls...
...mouth shows decision and determination. She's rather opinionative. There's a deal of individuality about that forehead; and I war-want that beneath that depth of dark-brown hair there are some terrific uprisings of combativeness. That nose, too, just the least bit on the ascendency, bespeaks a fond relish for logomachy; it starts up just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty...