[…] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:

[…] leaning at her window she watched the end of that eventful day darken over the ranges.

Then they passed out from the Forum, forced their way through the crowded streets, and soon were through the Porta Ratumena, outside the walls, and struck out across the Campus Martius, upon the Via Flaminia. It was rapidly darkening.

From babyhood until fourteen, to play in a garden in the evening when it is darkening is a legend.

It had been fine all morning, but it was darkening now, the weather was going to get worse.

He looked up. It was darkening here as well. Sky getting red, the edge of the quarry dark and jagged against it.

She puts on lipstick and darkens her eyebrows, which are now very scanty […]

The lovely hair had lost its rose-gold glimmer, and had darkened to rose-brown […]

It was a pleasure seeing you again. I’m only sorry I had to darken the pleasure with my private problems.

1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Jun[ior] and W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 303,
His countenance darkened while he spoke […]

1773, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 5 July, 1773, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I, London: Charles Dilly, p. 424,
When your letter came to me, I was so darkened by an inflammation in my eye, that I could not for some time read it.

His [Edmund Spenser’s] stile was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Johnson boldly pronounces him to have written no language.

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