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Until the day comes, - till the dark night dies...
...last heard approaching footsteps. The Professors were coming, all in a body, headed by Professors Alkali, with a calcium light fixed on his hat, to illumine the way. They were about to seat themselves around the table, when suddenly the calcium light gave out and left them in the dark. The Secretary, attempting to light the gas, found to his amazement that it had been turned off. Consternation spread over all. After some deliberation, Professor Lever suddenly recollected that he had in his pocket a tallow candle, which he kept to reduce the friction of his pulleys. This was lighted...
...hark! I hear from yonder dark church-tower...
...taken this matter in hand, as is proved by its requiring the candidates for admission to write short essays at their examination; but it is feared that these requirements, unless carefully kept in the light by those who desire a change in the present system, may pass into as dark a shadow as that which has fallen upon the requisitions in English reading. These entrance examinations might furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other both as regards the time when themes should first be written, and also as regards...
...Rembrandt gives us St. Jerome in a study which we are tempted to think partly underground. He is meditating, and the shades of twilight almost hide him from our sight. Behind him, by dint of repeated efforts, we discover a dingy stone staircase, which either goes up into a dark entry or ends at a door...