tenebrific
Example Sentences
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Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obviously, Lovecraft here was exploring those tenebrific estuaries of the occult that had barely been mapped by Jung, Fraser and Arthur Machen.
From Time Magazine Archive
While old Traun is kept luminous as mid-day; the circumambient atmosphere of Pandours is tenebrific to Friedrich, keeps him in perpetual midnight.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
They shine like suns, these two, amid multitudes of watery comets and tenebrific constellations, too sorrowful without such admixture on occasion!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
It lightens, it brightens The tenebrific scene, To meet with, and greet with My Davie, or my Jean!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
