Sentence examples for a dark old from inspiring English sources

He gave me the same look that a butler answering the door in a dark old mansion on a hill gives a solitary traveler whose car has broken down.

On the wall is a veritable catalog of pictorial idioms and cultural influences: a cluster of small contemporary paintings, a Japanese hanging scroll (and small parasol) and a convex mirror whose reflection has a dark, old masterish mien.

His uncle lives alone deep in the woods in a dark, old, gloomy house.

At mile marker 31 on Big Pine Key, we found our way to No-Name Pub, a dark, old-timey roadhouse, and added our signed dollar bill to the tens of thousands already stapled to the walls and ceiling.

He takes another bottle of a darker, older extra-virgin oil and sniffs.

Indeed, there appeared a darker, older supervising power that has kept this process under surveillance all along, and the realisation that this was the case hit me quite hard.

Atzmon drifts in an uncannily Bird-like manner on a imploring Everything Happens to Me; brings a darker, old-Europe romanticism to his own song musIK; and mingles the string group's soft sweeps and his own crisp phrasing with a bright, funky groove on What Is This Thing Called Love.

There are subtle allusions to Terminalia stitched into Robert Frost's famous "Mending Wall," a poem where Frost explores the paradoxical subtleties of human community by presenting a dialog between two kinds of neighbors--a limitless "elf" type person who delights in the porousness of boundaries and a darker "old-stone savage" who will always hold the wall because "Good fences make good neighbors".

One of the most popular bierhalles in Zurich, the Kropf, which is located off Paradeplatz, is a long, dark old house decorated with hunting scenes and heavy wooden furniture.

And then there is the strange dark woman who shouts, and a very little, dark old creature with a senile face who creeps up to me and murmurs in the passage.

All of this, and much more, is in a beautiful but dark, old stone building.