Dark as the heart of time. — IBID. Galleons dark as the helmsman's bark of old that ferried to hell the dead. IBID.

Dark as the sire that begat her, Despair. - IBID.

More dark than the dead world's tomb. IBID.

Darkened as one that wastes by sorcerous art and knows not whence it withers. IBID.

Dark as a land's decline. - IBID. Silent dark as shame. - IBID. Dark as the inside of a whale. -F. W. THOMAS.

Dark as the brooding thundercloud.
WHITTIER.

Dark as the shroudings of a bier;
As if the blessed atmosphere,
Like his own soul, was dim.