Sentence examples for black hours from inspiring English sources

I turned to writing for company, to fill the black hours.

(The song's lyrics also appear, slightly modified, in Mr. Tweedy's poem "The Black Hours").

Producer Rostam Batmanglij, formerly the keyboard player with Vampire Weekend, was one of the collaborators on Walkmen singer Hamilton Leithauser's Sinatra-influenced 2014 album Black Hours.

Would it alter how we experience Gerard Manley Hopkins's dark sonnets ("I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. / What hours, O what black hours we have spent / This night!"), if we knew he may have sawed Zzzzs?

More than 1,500 people died on the Titanic in the first black hours of April 15 , 1912 and 100 years later the world is still obsessed with that disaster.

"A place replete with shadowy shapes, this Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty," Dickens observes, in fine form as he always is when his subject is railway travel.

Years later, Leithauser enlisted Batmanglij to produce two tracks for his debut solo album, 2014's Black Hour.

The mistress of ceremonies was a dominatrix wearing an orange eye patch and black bangs of a shoe-polish sheen, her body poured into a purple and black hour-glass gown.

Everyone here had a story of the pitch-black hours of Saturday morning, of being trapped inside homes as water rose to 6 and then to 8 and 10 feet, listening to the screams of neighbors and fear-maddened animals.

And in the blackest hours of Vologda's bitter battle for better butter, the forces of light reached deep and found new strength.

The magazine version was written during the blackest hour of the Panic of 2008.