1 Suddenly the man drew up with a jerk at the top of a dark lane.
2 Her hair clustered round her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.
3 Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark.
4 A dog barked as they went by, and far away in the darkness some wandering sea-gull screamed.
5 The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
6 Most of the windows were dark, but now and then fantastic shadows were silhouetted against some lamplit blind.
7 For a few seconds he stood bending over the balustrade and peering down into the black seething well of darkness.
8 The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilled liquor.
9 It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
10 "I am charmed, my love, quite charmed," said Lord Henry, elevating his dark, crescent-shaped eyebrows and looking at them both with an amused smile.
11 In a few moments, Alan Campbell walked in, looking very stern and rather pale, his pallor being intensified by his coal-black hair and dark eyebrows.
12 On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.