Word: darkness
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...fifteen minutes later filed into the elegant dining-hall. A full list of the guests (including M-ses K-ng, 1881) will be published in the next Resister. Governor Short, the eminent translator of TYBILS, the great Ponca epic, was invited to preside. On his right sat Miss Dark Eyes, on his left the editor of the Tramp; while Mr. Shirts (in effigy) held the position of honor opposite. After ample justice had been done to the excellent menu, the chairman called the company to order, and after an address of welcome, called upon Miss Dark Eyes for an account...
...Dark Eyes...
...will take from the tenants orders for repairs and give them promptly to the Superintendent, and notify the Superintendent of any thing about the building which needs his attention. He will keep the steps free from snow and ice. He will light the gas in the entries at dark. He will keep the rooms and all other parts of the building as neat and clean as in a well-kept private house...
With heaven-blue eyes, and the dark soft-strewn moss...
...apartment where the great man lay. I applied my ear to the key-hole. All was still; "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," as the poet says, - I remember his grandfather well. Then I gently opened the door and looked in: the room was dark, but I thought - I thought that Alfred's mouth was - yes, it certainly was - open, ever so little. I crept near the bed. I could distinguish a faint sound, like the soughing of the wind through the pines. And then - then the poet stirred uneasily; then did he start up, and fell...