By nine-forty-five he was driving - south through the long stretches of dark countryside on Route 51.

Susannah could make it out easily; in this dark countryside all horizons seemed close.

In this starkly dark countryside, they stood out like beacons.

They had driven the black man through the dark countryside, terrorizing him.

Jason and Marie sat in the back seat, the dark countryside passing swiftly outside the windows.

Hausner put his foot up on the earth bank and looked out over the dark countryside, then back at Dobkin.

Sometimes as they advanced across the dark countryside there was the startled sound of beasts fleeing from their path.

Then he heard the shots, two dull cracks echoing through the dark countryside.

A glare from Abby turned the guards' eyes to the dark countryside.

She gazed out over the flat, dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind.