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1  The darkness was rising, but much was still hidden by the shadows.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
2  Holmes groaned, and his face glimmered white through the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
3  Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
4  I held it as he had done, and stared out into the darkness of the night.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
5  The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
6  Already our man had gone round the gallery and the corridor was all in darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
7  I had often suffered under it, but never more so than during that long drive in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
8  The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
9  I placed my hand upon the glowing muzzle, and as I held them up my own fingers smouldered and gleamed in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
10  Dr. Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
11  And yet it was one thing to laugh about it in London, and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
12  We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
13  Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
14  Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
15  To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
16  The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
17  No wonder the poor devil of a convict ran and screamed, even as our friend did, and as we ourselves might have done, when he saw such a creature bounding through the darkness of the moor upon his track.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
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