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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Dark

Dark as the yawning grave.
—Mark Akenside

Dark as a cellar.
—Anonymous

Dark as a dungeon.
—Anonymous

Dark as a funeral scarf.
—Anonymous

Dark as a thief’s pocket.
—Anonymous

Dark as futurity.
—Anonymous

Dark as midnight.
—Anonymous

Dark as the shades of night.
—Anonymous

Dark like a dead person in a coffin.
—Anonymous

Dark as Death’s Eye.
—Philip James Bailey

Dark as a wood.
—R. D. Blackmore

Dark as was chaos, ere the infant Sun
Was rolled together, or had tried his beams
Athwart the gloom profound.
—Robert Blair

Dark as a Spaniard.
—Charlotte Brontë

Darkened, as the lighthouse will that turns upon the sea.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dark as mire.
—John Bunyan

Dark as pitch.
—John Bunyan

Dark as misery’s woeful night.
—Robert Burns

Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun.
—Lord Byron

Dark as winter.
—Thomas Campbell

Darkly, as through the foliage of some wavering thicket.
—Thomas Carlyle

Dark as death.
—Alice Cary

Darked, as it is wonte to darke by smoked images.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Dark as a murderer’s mask of crape.
—Eliza Cook

Dark as the grave.
—Abraham Cowley

Dark and cold, like a benighted hemisphere.
—Aubrey De Vere

Dark as a fiend.
—Aubrey De Vere

Ever darker and darker, like the shadow of advancing death.
—Charles Dickens

Darkened, like the earth on a splendid day when a cloud flits across the sun.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Dark as pines that autumn never sears.
—George Eliot

Dark as Pluto’s palace.
—Richard Glover

Dark as a cloud that journeys overhead.
—Thomas Hood

Dark as the grave.
—Thomas Hood

Dark as shadows be.
—Thomas Hood

Dark as the language of the Delphic fane.
—Horace

Dark as the back of a stag-beetle.
—Irish Epic Tales

Dark as the parentage of chaos.
—John Keats

Dark as the pillars of some Hindoo shrine.
—Charles Kingsley

Dark as Saint Bartholomew.
—Walter Savage Landor

Darkness like the day of doom.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Dark as a coal-hole.
—Samuel Lover

Dark as the swelling wave of ocean before the rising winds, when it bends its head near the coast.
—James Macpherson

Dark as it were dipped in the death-shadow.
—Gerald Massey

Dark as a dead man in the ground.
—Sydney Munden

Dark as a demon’s dread thought.
—Mrs.
—Osgood

Dark as the hush’d silence of the grave.
—Thomas Otway

Dark as night’s protecting wing.
—John Pierpont

Dark as the caves wherein earth’s thunders groan.
—Edgar Allan Poe

See him darkly as in a mirror.
—Saint Augustine

As dark as a Yule midnight.
—Scottish Proverb

Dark as the bottom of a well.
—W. Clark Russell

Dark as care.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Dark as Egypt.
—William Shakespeare

Dark as Erebus.
—William Shakespeare

Dark as hell.
—William Shakespeare

Dark as ignorance.
—William Shakespeare

Dark as a cloud that the moon turns bright.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as fate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as fear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark in her sight
As her measureless measure of shadowless pleasure was bright.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as the heart of time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Galleons dark as the helmsman’s bark of old that ferried to hell the dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as the sire that begat her, Despair.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

More dark than the dead world’s tomb.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Darkened as one that wastes by sorcerous art and knows not whence it withers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as a land’s decline.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Silent dark as shame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dark as the inside of a whale.
—Frederick William Thomas

Dark as the brooding thundercloud.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Dark as the shroudings of a bier,-
As if the blessed atmosphere,
Like his own soul, was dim.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Dark as the waiting tomb.
—McLandburgh Wilson