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1  The narrow, steep staircase was very dark.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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2  His dark face was rather flushed from the champagne he had drunk.
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3  Meanwhile it got dark; he had no candle and, indeed, it did not occur to him to light up.
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4  The young man stepped into the dark entry, which was partitioned off from the tiny kitchen.
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5  She was wearing a dress of thin dark stuff and she had a white transparent scarf round her neck.
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6  And Sonia comes to us now, mostly after dark; she comforts Katerina Ivanovna and gives her all she can.
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7  He was a very young man, about two and twenty, with a dark mobile face that looked older than his years.
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8  His dark, mutton-chop whiskers made an agreeable setting on both sides, growing thickly upon his shining, clean-shaven chin.
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9  He sat down at a sticky little table in a dark and dirty corner; ordered some beer, and eagerly drank off the first glassful.
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10  He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair.
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11  It was nearly eleven o'clock and although in summer in Petersburg there is no real night, yet it was quite dark at the top of the stairs.
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12  She was a rather tall, slim and graceful woman, terribly emaciated, with magnificent dark brown hair and with a hectic flush in her cheeks.
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13  At the same time her large dark eyes, which looked larger still from the thinness of her frightened face, were watching her mother with alarm.
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14  Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; there was a proud light in her almost black eyes and yet at times a look of extraordinary kindness.
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15  The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
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16  It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these surroundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
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17  Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flashing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
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