Sentence examples for a shadowy forest from inspiring English sources

Fairy tales have always fascinated me: fishermen and talking flounder, siblings wending their way through a shadowy forest, seven brothers transformed into ravens.

In Doig's painting Echo Lake, which features in the show, a shadowy forest is reflected in dark water, with a strip of luminous shore bisecting the picture horizontally.

The poem opens: "When I'd journeyed halfway through this life of ours, I found myself within a shadowy forest, for I had lost the proper path".

Feeling a path with paint is just the first stage of what builds into an ever more complex set of puzzling scenarios – spreading climbable vines through an abandoned castle by firing giant drops of water, using a glowing ball to light a path through a dangerous shadowy forest, and eventually building blocks, steps and towers to negotiate taxing 3D obstacles.

I first became interested in works by Anon. at Acres of Books, the legendary used- and rare-book store in Long Beach, California: a dense, shadowy forest of rickety wooden bookshelves, their jam-packed contents haphazardly displayed.

We emerge from the shadowy forest to a large expanse of blinding snow.

She also wanted to draw a shadowy summertime forest, which would allow her to expand the range of tones and blacks used in the manga.

JJ Abrams has an instinctive sympathy for the classic Star Wars landscapes and lays them out with élan: the switch from galaxies to shadowy forests and of course vast rippling deserts.

Ishiguro has a nice way of seeding this trauma in the reader's mind: villagers reveal sudden panic in their faces; monks impale themselves on a device straight from Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"; mendicant figures who might have stepped from medieval allegories stalk the shadowy forests.

The King wants to cut a deal: he will not divide his kingdom evenly among his daughters; instead, they will be rewarded with "shadowy forests and with champains rich'd, / with plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads" according to the degree of their love for him.

Not that that would happen of course, because SALEM are not that kind of band – they dwell in the dark recesses of shadowy forests and the oily puddles soaking the grounds of bleak abandoned factories.