DARKNESS in Classic Quotes

1  It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION

2  Day after day she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL

3  He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness, sometimes with a glimmering lamp, and sometimes, viewing his own face in a looking-glass, by the most powerful light which he could throw upon it.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART

4  So vivid was the expression, or so intense the minister's perception of it, that it seemed still to remain painted on the darkness after the meteor had vanished, with an effect as if the street and all things else were at once annihilated.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL

5  She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE

6  He looked now more careworn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy; and whether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER