1 His was an impenetrable darkness.
2 It had become a place of darkness.
3 They were men enough to face the darkness.
4 We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.
5 It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another.
6 As I approached the glow from the dark I found myself at the back of two men, talking.
7 To the left a clump of trees made a shady spot, where dark things seemed to stir feebly.
8 The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
9 It survived his strength to hide in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness of his heart.
10 He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.
11 I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night.
12 The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
13 When I woke up shortly after midnight his warning came to my mind with its hint of danger that seemed, in the starred darkness, real enough to make me get up for the purpose of having a look round.
14 Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory.
15 The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.
16 Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.
17 I shall see this eloquent phantom as long as I live, and I shall see her too, a tragic and familiar Shade, resembling in this gesture another one, tragic also, and bedecked with powerless charms, stretching bare brown arms over the glitter of the infernal stream, the stream of darkness.
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