dark

Related to dark: dark horse, dark matter
See:
  • (as) dark as a pocket
  • a dark horse
  • a leap in the dark
  • a shot in the dark
  • a shot/stab in the dark
  • a stab in the dark
  • all cats are gray after dark/at night
  • all cats are gray in the dark
  • all cats are grey in the dark
  • be in the dark
  • be kept in the dark (about something)
  • be left in the dark (about something)
  • be whistling in the dark
  • dark cloud on the horizon
  • dark days
  • dark horse
  • dark horse, a
  • dark side of
  • darkest hour is just before the dawn
  • deep, dark secret
  • every dark cloud has a silver lining
  • grasp in the dark
  • grope in the dark
  • in the dark
  • in the dark about (something)
  • in the dark, to be/keep someone
  • it's always darkest (just) before the dawn
  • It's always darkest just before the dawn
  • keep (someone) in the dark (about something)
  • keep (something) dark
  • keep in the dark
  • keep it/something dark
  • keep someone in the dark
  • keep something dark
  • leap in the dark
  • leave (someone) in the dark (about something)
  • oh dark hundred
  • oh dark thirty
  • pitch dark
  • shot in the dark
  • shot in the dark, a
  • stay in the dark
  • stay in the dark about (something)
  • take a shot in the dark
  • take a stab in the dark
  • tall, dark, and handsome
  • the dark side of (someone or something)
  • the darkest hour is just before the dawn
  • whistle in the dark
  • whistle in the dark, to
  • zero dark thirty
References in classic literature
On a throne hung with clouds sat the Frost-King; a crown of crystals bound his white locks, and a dark mantle wrought with delicate frost-work was folded over his cold breast.
Flower Fables
After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never wanted to leave him again.
Winesberg Ohio
As soon as all of them had passed the big rock, it slowly turned and filled up the opening again; but now they were no longer in the dark, for a soft, rosy light enabled them to see around them quite distinctly.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
The dark man asked his way to the post-office and went out by himself.
I Say No
My friend Harold March here will tell you I sometimes see things, even in the dark."
The Man Who Knew Too Much
As Tom and Ned had no wish for a light, which would be sure to attract insects, they entered their tent in the dark, and were soon stretched out in comparative comfort.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
And so the two walked together through the dark alley to the end of the rickety, dismantled dock; the one thinking of the vast reward the King would lavish upon her for the information she felt sure she alone could give; the other feeling beneath his mantle for the hilt of a long dagger which nestled there.
The Outlaw of Torn
We found the trap-door still open, but it was now as dark in the room of mirrors as in the cellar which we had left.
Phantom of the Opera
Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.
Fairy Tales
Many suns circle in desert space: to all that is dark do they speak with their light--but to me they are silent.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Eyes that can see in the dark--the dark! Tongue--give tongue to it!
Jungle Book
When they arrived at the gateway where he had paused in the dark not many hours before, to picture to himself on which of the rough stones of the street her feet had trodden, he lifted her again, and carried her up the staircase to their rooms.
Tale Of Two Cities
Apprising the police of his intention, he effected an entrance through a rear window before dark, walked through the deserted rooms, bare of furniture, dusty and desolate, and seating himself at last in the parlor on an old sofa which he had dragged in from another room watched the deepening of the gloom as night came on.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
Passing through the dining room, a room not very large, with dark, paneled walls, Stepan Arkadyevitch and Levin walked over the soft carpet to the half-dark study, lighted up by a single lamp with a big dark shade.
Anna Karenina
40-53) Bitter pain seized her heart, and she rent the covering upon her divine hair with her dear hands: her dark cloak she cast down from both her shoulders and sped, like a wild-bird, over the firm land and yielding sea, seeking her child.
Collection Of Hesiod Homer and Homerica