1 The taxi stopped in front of a dark building.
2 And he pointed into a dark corner of the room.
3 "This way," said the carer, pointing to a dark trunk with a carved, wooden backrest.
4 , as they walked up and down beside each other in the darkness of one of the side naves.
5 But he seems now to see an inextinguishable light begin to shine from the darkness behind the door.
6 None of the stained glass in the main window shed even a flicker of light on the darkness of the walls.
7 By now, he had become used to the darkness in the room and was able to make out various fixtures and fittings.
8 recognised the dark, slightly bulging eyes - stood in the hallway in a long white apron, holding a candle in her hand.
9 K tried hard to see into the darkness of one corner of the yard, where a few handcarts had been left behind one another.
10 Instead of the darkness he expected, he saw everything unchanged from the previous evening, and did not know how he should respond.
11 One of the men was clearly in charge, and attracted attention by being dressed in a kind of dark leather costume which left his neck and chest and his arms exposed.
12 Once, just in front of him, he thought he could see the statue of a saint by the glitter of the silver on it, although it quickly disappeared back into the darkness.
13 The yard he looked down into was small and rectangular, all around it were offices, all the windows were now dark and only those at the very top caught a reflection of the moon.
14 It was all very pretty, but totally inadequate to illuminate the pictures which were usually left in the darkness of the side altars, and seemed to make the darkness all the deeper.
15 There was no direct source of light but it was not entirely dark as many of the departments, instead of solid walls, had just wooden bars reaching up to the ceiling to separate them from the corridor.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ... 16 It was as if, by flapping his hands about like short wings, he hoped to deflect any introductions and greetings, as if he wanted on no account to disturb the others by his presence and seemed to be exhorting them to leave him back in the dark and forget about his being there.
17 ought not to intrude in the middle of the night; that meant he would have to speak to her now, but, unfortunately, he had not put the electric light on in his room so that when he stepped out of the dark it would give the impression of being an attack and would certainly, at the very least, have been quite alarming.
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