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1  But for the moonlight they would have been in complete darkness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  The door remained shut; darkness only came in through the window.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Not liking to sit in the cold and darkness, I thought I would lie down on my bed, dressed as I was.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  My eyes were covered and closed: eddying darkness seemed to swim round me, and reflection came in as black and confused a flow.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head and tried to look boldly round the dark room; at this moment a light gleamed on the wall.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
8  We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  The first was a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, her countenance was grave, her bearing erect.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  He lifted his hand and opened his eyelids; gazed blank, and with a straining effort, on the sky, and toward the amphitheatre of trees: one saw that all to him was void darkness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Rain, wind, and darkness filled the air; nevertheless, I dimly discerned a wall before me and a door open in it; through this door I passed with my new guide: she shut and locked it behind her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  I remember her as a slim young woman, with black hair, dark eyes, very nice features, and good, clear complexion; but she had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of principle or justice: still, such as she was, I preferred her to any one else at Gateshead Hall.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  I discovered, too, that a great pleasure, an enjoyment which the horizon only bounded, lay all outside the high and spike-guarded walls of our garden: this pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
16  My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
17  The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
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