It's a kind of light I associate with cabins, with the image of settlers huddled in a frail carapace of logs chinked with mud, wilderness pressing in, the sighing darkness of trees punctuated with panther screams.
Parasitic eggs are always white, unlike those of some of their hosts, but egg size and shape may be more informative cues of identity in the darkness of the tree cavities or deep burrows in which hosts breed [ 6].
Better to enjoy the slowness of Memorial Morning and Memorial Afternoon and Memorial Evening, the fireflies rising like very slow fireworks into the darkness of the trees.
Ms. Lee, accompanied now by the plucked-string noises of toads, dragged her end pin through the gravel and backed up a hill into the darkness of the trees.
I loved the mysterious darkness of the trees, the way they moved against the sky if there was wind — big and heavy movements, but delicate, too, in all the subtle, reactive leaves.
He likes Savannah and gets delirious about Seattle, especially the Space Needle, which represents for him "everything that America has always made me dream of: poetry and modernity, precariousness and technical challenge, lightness of form meshed with a Babel syndrome, city lights, the haunting quality of darkness, tall trees of steel". O.K., fine.
"Don't we owe people money?" Kath asked, as he pulled her by the hand into the darkness of a stand of trees.
The historian Edward Gibbon's observation that "the proudest families are content to lose in the darkness of the middle ages, the tree of their pedigree" may be challenged in the light of recorded genealogies.
It was totally dark except for Pedro's headlight, but we could see narrow inlets, patches of darkness under trees.
Driving home with her mother one night, she saw them hovering in the darkness behind a cluster of trees, lower than a helicopter but higher than a car.
