tenebrific
Example Sentences
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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
Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific.
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
Now begins "the tenebrific passage of the tale."
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
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.
