blackness

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After a time, I glared into the gloom as if I could pierce it with my gaze, and felt it almost part into its constituent blacknesses, so that I could see the beetles there.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

A glow loomed in the blacknesses and Roderick Deal flashed Skag a smile which reminded him, at last, of Carlin.

From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington

It scatters cares, as the silent moon has power, by her mild white light, to clear away a whole skyful of piled blacknesses.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

They served to diffuse this dim light and throw it again upon the monstrous blacknesses that were swarming from below.

From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard

He turned to the window, and outside was a troublesome noise of night-jars and a distant roaring of stags, black trees, blacknesses, the sky clear and remote with a great company of stars....

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)