The window above his head showed a dark-blue sky with a single star, his room was shrouded in shadows, and next door, the snoring had stopped.

The blizzard had swept on and now a full moon hung low in the dark-blue cloudless sky.

"Lonely country," Pucky pouted, looking up to the dark-blue sky whose colour ranged into violet.

The late sun in the clear, dark-blue sky glanced off the red faces of rocks pushing up in the soil, and turned the hill grass gold.

Three of the Druuf ships took off and raced into the planet's dark-blue sky.

Far overhead, the rings glistened brightly in a dark-blue sky.

Jean lifted his face to the heavens, to the pitiless white stars, to the infinite depths of the dark-blue sky.

Above this stood a gray line of tree foliage, and then the intensely dark-blue sky studded with white, cold stars.

Behind them, smoke rose into the dark-blue sky above the trees.

The sun moved across the dark-blue sky.