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1  The taxi stopped in front of a dark building.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
2  And he pointed into a dark corner of the room.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
3  "This way," said the carer, pointing to a dark trunk with a carved, wooden backrest.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
4  , as they walked up and down beside each other in the darkness of one of the side naves.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
5  But he seems now to see an inextinguishable light begin to shine from the darkness behind the door.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
6  None of the stained glass in the main window shed even a flicker of light on the darkness of the walls.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
7  By now, he had become used to the darkness in the room and was able to make out various fixtures and fittings.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
8  recognised the dark, slightly bulging eyes - stood in the hallway in a long white apron, holding a candle in her hand.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
10  Instead of the darkness he expected, he saw everything unchanged from the previous evening, and did not know how he should respond.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
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.
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ContextHighlight   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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
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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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
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