Sentence examples for darkness fall from inspiring English sources
To stand under the jacaranda tree in the bright day and make darkness fall, and then to hear Joseph's voice.
One, that night was falling; and I swear on this bottle that I have never since then (and many years have passed) seen darkness fall in the mountains without feeling an emptiness here in the pit of my stomach.
L. Sprague de Camp's novel Lest Darkness Fall (1941) has an American archaeologist rescuing Imperial Rome in its decline, an act the hero carries out with such luminous attention to techno-historical detail that it resembles a World Bank bailout of an underdeveloped country.
During the Second World War, it was taken by the Italians, taken back by the Greeks, and, finally, seized by the Germans: "At dusk the city, which through the centuries had appeared on maps as a possession of the Romans, the Normans, the Byzantines, the Turks, the Greeks and the Italians, now watched darkness fall as a part of the German empire.
The first real AH bestseller was L Sprague de Camp's 1939 novel Lest Darkness Fall, in which a modern time traveller attempts to prevent the collapse of the western Roman Empire by introducing steam engines, pencils, double-entry book-keeping and other exciting innovations.
In what is generally considered his best SF novel, Lest Darkness Fall (1941), an American accidental time traveller goes back to the late Roman Empire well researched and beautifully realised - and attempts to introduce printing and other modern technology to stop the Empire's collapse; he is frustrated by his lack of specific knowledge and tools.
Soon enough, darkness falls.
He exited, and darkness fell.
Finally, the sun set, and darkness fell.
