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In ten minutes it was dunnest night, and a rattling thunder-storm.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Macbeth bids the stars hide their fires that his 'black' desires may be concealed; Lady Macbeth calls on thick night to come, palled in the dunnest smoke of hell.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
His leviathans and huge worms and wrecks of ships rot on every shore and in his dunnest deeps amidst pearls and sea-born blooms.
From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George
Even Death laughs,—death that "hiatus maxime defiendus," "the dunnest of all duns," etc.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
His clothes were of the plainest cut and of the dunnest color.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
